Bücher von John Grisham

Wenn ein Brief zur Waffe wirdDrei verurteilte Richter brüten im Gefängnis über einem genialen Coup. Wenn alles klappt, haben sie für die Zeit nach dem Knast ausgesorgt. Sie sind gerissen und haben die richtigen Kontakte, aber ist ihre Strategie wirklich wasserdicht? Ein raffiniertes Szenario entlang der Säulen der Macht.«Der spannendste Grisham seit "Der Partner" - ein geradezu diebisches Vergnügen.» Entertainment Weekly>

Sein letzter AuftrittEin milliardenschwerer, lebensmüder Geschäftsmann, eine gierig lauernde Erbengemeinschaft, eine im brasilianischen Regenwald arbeitende Missionarin und ein ehemaliger Staranwalt, der es noch einmal wissen will - das sind die Akteure im Testament. Es geht um Geld, Macht und Ehre, und es geht um Leben und Tod.

Um jeden PreisMichael Brock ist der aufsteigende Stern bei einer einflussreichen Anwaltskanzlei in Washington D. C. Er führt ein Leben auf der Überholspur, bis eine Geiselnahme sein Leben vollkommen verändert. Der Geiselnehmer, ein herunterkommener Obdachloser, wird erschossen. Michael forscht nach den Hintergründen diser Tat und spürt ein schmutziges Geheimnis auf.

»Ein erzählerischer Triumph, eine stilistische Freude.« Daily TelegraphBevor sie die Falle zuschnappen ließen, hatten sie Danilo Silva rund um die Uhr bewacht. Er führte ein ruhiges Leben in einem heruntergekommenen Viertel in einer kleinen Stadt in Brasilien. Nichts deutete darauf hin, dass er neunzig Millionen Dollar beiseite geschafft hatte ...

«Der vielleicht spannendste Schmöker aller Zeiten.» FocusIn Biloxi, einer verschlafenen Kleinstadt an der Golfküste von Mississippi, findet ein Prozess satt, der weltweit Aufsehen erregt. Da die Geschworenen unter großem Druck stehen, sieht sich der Richter genötigt, die Jury von der Außenwelt abzuschotten: Er sperrt sie unter strikter Bewachung in ein Motel. Dennoch mehren sich die Anzeichen, dass die Jury von außen kontrolliert wird, denn im Hintergrund lauern handfeste Interessen: Für einen mächtigen Konzern geht es um Milliarden ...

»John Grisham in Höchstform.« The New York TimesIm Hochsicherheitstrakt des Staatsgefängnisses von Mississippi wartet Sam Cayhall auf seine Hinrichtung. Er ist wegen eines tödlichen Bombenanschlags verurteilt. Seine Lage ist hoffnungslos. Nur der Anwalt Adam Hall kann ihm noch eine Chance bieten. Es geht um Tage, Stunden, Minuten.

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.Suspicions are easy enough, but proof seems impossible. The man 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.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. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list?The Judge's List is by any measure John Grisham's most surprising, chilling novel yet.

Jake Brigance returns; a death row inmate makes an unusual final request; a dysfunctional legal family gets their day in court-but maybe not the way they envisioned it. These are just a few of the unforgettable characters you'll encounter in Sparring Partners, three novellas that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that John Grisham is truly America's Favorite Storyteller.

#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother are sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer leaves Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most-sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client--even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom . . . or cost them both their lives.

When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray-doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail-already knew: You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice-if he wants to live.

#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER In Chicago's top law firm, a young lawyer stands on the brink of a brilliant career. Now twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. Cayhall has run out of chances--except for one: a determined lawyer who just happens to be his grandson. While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather, and while the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets--including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall's life . . . or cost Adam his.

The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "e;good crop."e;Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever.A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from John Grisham's The Litigators.

Rudy Baylor is a newly qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case alone, to save himself from his mounting debts. His case is against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man's life, but instead refused to pay the claim until it was too late. The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem.

Contemporary / British English Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that it's better not to tell. But it's just as dangerous if you don't. So Mark needs help fast... because there isn't much time.