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Between now and Dec 31, we’ll be giving away one autographed copy of GRAY MOUNTAIN each week along with the chance to win one complete autographed Grisham hardcover library—all 33 books.


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Published on September 30, 2014 14:38

September 8, 2014

Win an autographed copy of GRAY MOUNTAIN.


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The new legal thriller


Between now and Dec 31, we’ll be giving away one autographed copy of GRAY MOUNTAIN each week along with the chance to win one complete autographed Grisham hardcover library—all 33 books.


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Published on September 08, 2014 14:00

June 25, 2014

With GRAY MOUNTAIN, John Grisham takes suspense to new heights.




The new legal thriller


PRE-ORDER TODAY!

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John Grisham has a new hero . . . and she’s full of surprises


The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer’s career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track—until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the “lucky” associates. She’s offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she’d get her old job back.


In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about. Mattie Wyatt, lifelong Brady resident and head of the town’s legal aid clinic, is there to teach her how to “help real people with real problems.” For the first time in her career, Samantha prepares a lawsuit, sees the inside of an actual courtroom, gets scolded by a judge, and receives threats from locals who aren’t so thrilled to have a big-city lawyer in town. And she learns that Brady, like most small towns, harbors some big secrets.

Her new job takes Samantha into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws are often broken, rules are ignored, regulations are flouted, communities are divided, and the land itself is under attack from Big Coal. Violence is always just around the corner, and within weeks Samantha finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly.


In stores October 21.

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Published on June 25, 2014 05:30

John Grisham’s new fall thriller revealed!

Revealed now, for the first time, the cover of the fall legal thriller.





The new legal thriller


John Grisham has a new hero—and she’s full of surprises.


PRE-ORDER TODAY!

AMAZON | APPLE | BARNES & NOBLE | | INDIEBOUND | POWELL’S | TARGET


The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City’s largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid clinic deep in small town Appalachia. There, for the first time in her career, she was confronted with real clients with real problems. She also stumbled across secrets that should have remained buried deep in the mountains forever.


In stores October 21.

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Published on June 25, 2014 05:30

April 9, 2014

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Join John for a Facebook Q&A, today at 1 pm ET.  See you there!Q&A

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Published on April 09, 2014 07:55

September 16, 2013

Giveaway! Advance copies of SYCAMORE ROW

Advance copies of Grisham’s books are exceedingly rare. So, we’re delighted to announce that we’re making the extraordinarily rare offer of five (5) bound galleys of SYCAMORE ROW which will be awarded at random to five eminently lucky winners drawn from those that fill out the form at the link. Begins now and ends at midnight Oct 1, ET. US residents only, please. http://bit.ly/16pWfrm


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Published on September 16, 2013 09:54

August 6, 2013

SYCAMORE ROW

John Grisham takes you back to where it all began . . . SycamoreRow


John Grisham’s A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. 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.


Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. 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.


The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row?


In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America’s favorite storyteller. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill.

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Published on August 06, 2013 13:38

SYCAMORE ROW | New jacket revealed!

John Grisham takes you back to where it all began . . . SycamoreRow


John Grisham’s A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. 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.


Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. 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.


The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row?


In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America’s favorite storyteller. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill.

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Published on August 06, 2013 13:38

Sycamore Row

John Grisham takes you back to where it all began . . .


John Grisham’s A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. 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.


Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. 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.


The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row?


In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America’s favorite storyteller. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill.

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Published on August 06, 2013 10:45