Sycamore Row, by John Grisham
The day before Seth Hubbard, the richest man in 1988 Clanton, Mississippi, hangs himself, he writes a new holographic will leaving ninety percent of his wealth to his black caregiver, Lettie, and a letter to local lawyer Jake Brigance, naming him the attorney for Seth’s estate in courtroom drama SYCAMORE ROW. Seth warns that his adult children, whom he leaves nothing, will fight the handwritten will, and they do. Things look bleak for Jake and Lettie as the trial nears an end, but it all goes back to motive, and Jake’s team triumphantly finds it.
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