![]() Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. Seven of his other novels have also been adapted into films: The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas. The book was adapted into a 1993 feature film of the same name, starring Tom Cruise, and a 2012 TV series which continues the story ten years after the events of the film and novel. Grisham’s first bestseller, The Firm, sold more than seven million copies. Grisham’s first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it. He practised criminal law for about a decade and served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three authors to have sold two million copies on a first printing. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 28 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. John Grisham (born Februin Jonesboro, Arkansas) is an American novelist, lawyer and former member of the 7th district of the Mississippi House of Representatives, known for his popular legal thrillers. He has a list that includes the names of all his targets who have wronged him in some way, and Lacy must help Jeri establish his guilt without either of them becoming his next victim. While the serial killer’s guilt is never really in doubt, finding evidence to convict him is a much bigger challenge, because he knows the law, and is always one step ahead of law enforcement. ![]() She has studied the judge for two decades, and has discovered other victims in the process. Jeri’s father was one of the victims 20 years earlier, although his case has never been solved. She’s reluctant to get involved, but Jeri is obsessed with bringing the man to justice. But when Jeri Crosby nervously approaches her, Lacy discovers that a sitting judge is a murderer. ![]() Three years after the events of The Whistler, Lacy Stolz is tired of her work as an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. The Judge’s List is by any measure John Grisham’s most surprising, chilling novel yet. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list? He has a list, with the names of his victims and targets, all unsuspecting people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. ![]() He is a judge, in Florida-under Lacy’s jurisdiction. He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law. He is the most cunning of all serial killers. The man is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement. Suspicions are easy enough, but proof seems impossible. Along the way, she has discovered other victims. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Jeri Crosby’s father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. Worth staying up all night to finish” ( Wall Street Journal). Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense…. Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect-a sitting judge-in “one of the best crime reads of the year….Excerpted from The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2).The best book quotes from The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2).The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2) by John Grisham KARINA review The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2) DARLA review The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2) MANDY WHITE review The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2) LA review The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2) RONALD H.CLARK review The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2) LIGHTHOUSE88 review The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2) MARIALYCE review The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2) RUTH PETER review The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2) HOLLY B review The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2) JANB review The Judge’s List (The Whistler Book 2)
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