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The Judge’s List: A Novel (The Whistler)

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By: John Grisham (Author)

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  1. *.* –

    could not put this story down.
    I live in Florida so the places and people seemed so real to me. Great story and keeps you reading more and more.

  2. Amazon Customer –

    Good read for a cruise
    Bought this to read on a cruise. Thoroughly enjoyed it and was just the right length for our 7 day cruise. Tip: when done donate to the cruise library.

  3. Larry Brownlee –

    Loved it
    I loved it…. it’s classic Grisham and was a very good and complicated story.

  4. Ronald H. Clark –

    Some departures by John Grisham
    One reason I found this latest Grisham interesting is that he departs from a number of his standard elements. For example, in some novels he wants to get the excitement pitch going at the outset; in one story he had somebody jump off an eight story balcony to get things started. Here, the main element at the beginning consists of an extensive discussion between the two lead characters, both women and one African American. They are the two principal characters: Jeri and Lacy. One is a senior attorney on the state Board of Judicial Conduct, the other a college teacher who claims a very prominent judge has killed a number of people, including her law professor father over a period of 22 years. It is these discussions, developed in very fine dialogue by Grisham, that sets the story.In addition, Grisham puts the reader in a position to observe most of the murders being committed, several extensively, which I don’t remember from his other books. Grisham has become interested in computer gizmos, so he explains how the Judge can inject programs into police files, travel records, or any computer system which will then disclose any requested information. This is because Grisham uses his novels to educate the reader about different aspects of the legal system. This is why he examines serial killers and what we know about them in detail through dialogue between Lacy and the retired head of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit.So the story proceeds as Lacy investigates the allegations. None of this is the typical Grisham page-turning excitement seen in his other books. But this changes dramatically when the hunters become the hunted–the Judge learns of the investigation and undertakes to find out who are the participants and how to remove them. This is still not “The Firm” kind of excitement, but it is still engrossing. We are invited into the mind of the Judge to see how he plans to escape when his effort to neutralize Jeri and Lacy are frustrated. So the pace picks up a bit.I am not going to even touch upon the finish, which I think is some of Grisham’s most creative and innovative writing I have seen. I have spent a good deal of time thinking through it, but all I can say is you need to read it and reach your own conclusion. It is entirely unique but I can still imagine it happening. So this is a special Grisham “legal thriller” which deviates from his well worn story lines but reflects his growing skill and creativity as a novelist. He is not one to do “the same old, same old.”

  5. josé Guadalupe de la Luz Gómez Villarreal –

    buen “plot”

  6. Rowena Maiato –

    This book is very good. Interesting storyline. Great characters. Very well written by the greatest author of crime mysteries. Highly recommend it 👌.

  7. Carlos –

    Gostei do livro

  8. Blomi –

    Wie immer Grisham at its best!! Herrliche, entspannte Ferienlektüre

  9. Sebastia Bech –

    I enjoyed this exciting mystery reading.

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