The bewildered Lettie Lee finds herself at the center of a maelstrom as forgotten relatives pour in and a race-baiting lawyer out of Memphis tries to hustle Jake out of the picture. The dispossessed Hubbard children promptly lawyer up. The legal wrangling that ensues is prime Grisham. Then, like a pyromaniac lighting a fuse, Seth settled his neck into the noose and stepped off into eternity. In his last will, Seth has chosen Jake from the legal class he termed “vultures” and “bloodsuckers” to be his executor. The day prior to taking his life, Seth wrote a radical revision to his will, leaving out his children and grandchildren - and naming Lettie Lang, his African-American housekeeper, as the primary beneficiary of his estate. An ornery loner, Seth nonetheless has a family history that stretches back generations in Ford County. The deceased is one Seth Hubbard, who was by any measure Ford County’s wealthiest citizen. It begins with a body hanging from a tree - not a murder victim, as one might suspect, but a suicide. “Sycamore Row” picks up three years after the Carl Lee Hailey trial that put Jake Brigance on the legal map. John Grisham’s latest returns him to the territory of Ford County and Clanton, Miss., where he launched his fictional career 26 years ago with “A Time to Kill.” And for Grisham’s loyal Mississippi fan base, that is good news indeed.
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