
It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham’s novels.”-USA TodayĪ Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. John Grisham returns to the iconic setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension.
