There’s no question about that Drew has admitted it, first to his 14-year-old sister, Kiera, as she sat on the kitchen floor cradling their mother, then to the police when they arrived in response to the kids' 911 call. The 16-year-old son of Kofer’s girlfriend is charged with capital murder.ĭrew Gamble shot Kofer, with the deputy’s own gun.
That gunshot in the night killed Stuart Kofer, a county sheriff’s deputy.
Then his old friend and mentor Judge Omar Noose (whose name sounds like he wandered out of a Dickens novel) hands him another of those apparently unwinnable, and probably utterly unprofitable, cases. Jake is suing on behalf of the infant daughter who wasn’t in the car that night his witnesses say the crossing signals weren’t working. His highest hopes for a solid payday rest on a lawsuit he’s pursuing involving a collision between a car and a train that left a family of four dead. This book is set in 1990, just five years after the events of A Time to Kill, and Jake is still hustling for cases in Clanton. Grisham wrote Sycamore Row, a sequel to A Time to Kill, in 2013, and he’s brought Jake back for a third act in A Time for Mercy. Its lawyer hero, Jake Brigance, took on a seemingly unwinnable case boiling with issues of race that split the fictional small town of Clanton, Miss., and nearly cost him his life. Grisham shows that he not only disagrees but he understands and is a part of that fabric, which reeled me in and helped me feel comfortable in the world that he portrayed.His first novel, A Time to Kill, published in 1988 and made into a hit movie in 1996, grew directly out of his practice of law in a small town in Mississippi. In modern times, the South is misunderstood as a backwards land, completely separate from the moral fabric of modern society. I love the sensitivity and reality that Grisham paints the South with. Additionally, the Smallwood subplot did not feel fully resolved at the time of the book’s completion. This was a disappointment, yet, a validation of reality. Something must be paid for, as the society would not let things go otherwise. After all of the build up, I knew he couldn’t let the boy go free. The core moral quandary of this book would absolutely cleave a town’s morality in two.
Growing up in Texas and in the Christian Bible Belt community, Grisham portrary, with sensitivity and accuracy, the attitudes that you’d find. In the case of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, him graphically killing off the main party’s small animal companion caused me to put down the book entirely. Uniquely, I like suspenseful plots, but too much suspense or grit can cause me to put a book down. This novel, as with the first, catered to my taste for drama. This is the second novel I’ve read by him, the first being A Time to Kill. I’ve just finished A Time for Mercy by John Grisham.
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