The Judges List, John Grisham
The Judges List, John Grisham
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The Judge's List

Bestseller

Author: John Grisham

Narrator: Mary-Louise Parker, John Grisham

Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/19/2021


Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham returns to Florida, where The Whistler’s Lacy Stoltz takes on a cold case that reveals a judge’s darkest secrets.

“One of the best crime reads of the year . . . a world-class shocker, worth staying up all night to finish.”—The Wall Street Journal

In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.

Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby’s father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Along the way, she has discovered other victims.

The man Jeri holds responsible for all these deaths is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement. He is the most cunning of all serial killers. He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law.
 
He is a judge, in Florida—under Lacy’s jurisdiction.
 
But the man keeps a record of all his victims and targets, people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. Lacy must work to take him down, while somehow keeping her name off his list.

About John Grisham

John Ray Grisham, Jr. was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He was a practicing criminal attorney for over ten years and then served in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He published his first novel in 1989 after working on it for five years. ‘A Time to Kill’, his first novel, launched his new career and was later made into a major motion picture. His first bestseller, ‘The Firm’, released in 1991, sold over seven million copies and was made into a box office hit starring Tom Cruise two years later. Almost twenty years later in 2012, a TV series was launched and picks up the life of Mitch McDeere and his family ten years after the events of the novel.

John Grisham has had his novels translated into more than forty languages and has sold nearly 300 million copies worldwide. He is a winner of the prestigious Galaxy British Book Award and is one of only three authors (the other two being Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling) to ever sell two million copies of a first published novel. Nine of his novels (including ‘The Firm and ‘A Time to Kill’ have been made into major motion pictures.


Reviews

Goodreads review by JanB on February 02, 2022

I had forgotten how much I enjoy a straight up legal thriller/investigation with a linear timeline, only a few characters to keep straight, and no crazy twists. I flew through this book in 24 hours without a single eye roll or picking up my phone out of boredom. Lacy, an investigator with the Florida......more

Goodreads review by Holly on February 20, 2022

Legal suspense at its best! We have a corrupt judge that gets tangled in a game of cat and rat. Could he have been found out? After all this time? He is arrogant and worried (with good reason). "For the first time in his life, he felt like he was on the run". Murder here, murder there, seems like ever......more

Goodreads review by Joey on December 18, 2021

3.5 stars— I have always considered myself a John Grisham fan beginning with “A Time to Kill”. After going back and counting I believe this makes the 28th John Grisham book I have read. I have rated his books everything between 1 and 5 stars and this book ranks somewhere in the middle in my opinion.......more

Goodreads review by NILTON on November 03, 2021

The latest release by Grisham is the second book with Lacy Stoltz, who was introduced to us in “The Whistler”. As like that book, the storyline is about an investigation. It’s a chase between cat and mouse. There is a serial killer and we know who he is, so there is no mystery. The thrill is the disc......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on October 23, 2021

What can I say about John Grisham that hasn't already been said a hundred times over. He really is the master of the legal thriller and The Judge's List is just more evidence of that. His books always draw me in from the first few pages and leave me needing to read more. I binged this book in one la......more


Quotes

Praise for the novels of John Grisham
 
“John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we’ve got in the United States these days.”The New York Times Book Review
 
“In all of Grisham’s best books . . . the reader gets good company, a vigorous runaround and . . . a bit of a legal education.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
 
“Grisham’s books are smart, imaginative, and funny, populated by complex, interesting people.”The Washington Post
 
“The law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainment.”Los Angeles Times
 
“John Grisham owns the legal thriller.” The Denver Post