Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnesses the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney and is left with a deadly secret concerning the recent murder of a Louisiana senator.
Patrick Berthon Books






The Firm
- 501 pages
- 18 hours of reading
A young lawyer works undercover for the F.B.I. to reveal his firm's Mafia connection.
Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race, and this case has both. AS the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbard's death: What made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang? Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row? And what was it that Seth and his brother witnessed as children that, in his words, 'no human should ever see'? In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career, John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to A Time to Kill. As filled with page-turning twists as it is with legal mastery, Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John Grisham is in a league of his own.
The Innocent Man
- 501 pages
- 18 hours of reading
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. Whe
Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s Southern cotton-farming community
The King of Torts
- 472 pages
- 17 hours of reading
A public defender takes an unwanted murder case and stumbles across a horrible pharmaceutical conspiracy.
The Pelican Brief
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Contemporary / British English In Washington, two Supreme Court judges are murdered and only the young and beautiful law student Darby Shaw knows why. She has uncovered a deadly secret but will anyone believe her? Can she stay alive long enough to persuade them she is right?
Bleachers
- 163 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Story of high school All - American Neely Crenshaw and relationships on the team and with the coach Eddie Rake. When Coach Rakes "boys" come home to bury him, sitting in the bleachers, Neely knows he must forgive his coach and himself to finally move on with his life.
The Brethren
- 440 pages
- 16 hours of reading
In a federal prison, three former judges who call themselves "the brethren" meet in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their community and make a some money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation.


