'Sycamore Row' - John Grisham's Sequel to 'A Time To Kill' Review

John Grisham's new novel is called Sycamore Row. Twenty five years ago, Grisham released his first novel A Time To Kill. This wonderful book was adapted into a film not long after and the book was a best seller. A Time To Kill was about racial discrimination in a small town in Ford County. The hero from his first book, Jake Brigance returns in Sycamore Row to become enmeshed in another courtroom battle which dates back to the past and the history of the town. 

This brand new book is full of intrigue, suspense and courtroom dramas, which is what Grisham excels at. It is a story of the search for justice in a small Southern town.

When it was announced that Grisham was writing a new book and that is would be a sequel to A Time To Kill, fans were really excited. The book has since become available for purchase recently and fans most likely cannot wait to get their copy. If the last book of Grisham's that I read has any bearing on whether this book is worth reading, well let me just say that every John Grisham book that I have read, I have gone back to read it for a second time. This is my measure of an excellent book. If you read it and then think you would like to read it again, then it's good and Grisham has never let me down. 

Clanton has been the setting for a few of Grisham's books, The Summons and The Last Juror were two, if I remember correctly. John Grisham is a lawyer, who left the profession after the success of The Firm, his second novel to pursue a writing career and fans everywhere are so glad he made this choice. 

Grisham wrote A Time To Kill in three years and after many years of rejections it was finally accepted and published. Grisham's inspiration was hearing testimony from a 12 year old rape victim and he got to thinking what would have happened if the father of this child has murdered the rapist. So he wrote his first book based on what he heard that day.

Grisham's second novel, The Firm is what made him a best selling writer and is also my personal favourite and the first Grisham novel that I ever read. I have read The Firm about six times. His writing hobby that he did outside of work hours being a lawyer was turned into a full time career and it would seem a labour of love. The Firm was the best selling novel in 1991 and this book was adapted in a movie as well, starring Tom Cruise. 

I highly recommend fans of Sycamore Row get their copy as it is one book that John Grisham fans cannot afford to miss.

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