A Time for Mercy: The addictive courtroom drama from the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling author

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Jake Brigance, lawyer hero of A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row, is back in his toughest case yet.

A COMMUNITY SEEKING JUSTICE. A LAWYER FIGHTING FOR TRUTH
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Drew Gamble is a teenage cop killer.

He's now the most hated person in Clanton, Mississippi. He's adamant he shot the officer in self-defence. The town believes it was murder.

Everyone expects him to be sentenced to death. It falls to Clanton's most famous lawyer, Jake Brigance, to defend Drew against impossible odds.

And anything can happen when Jake Brigance is on the defence.

💥350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: JOHN GRISHAM IS THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER💥

Readers love A Time for Mercy:

'I couldn't put it down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Grisham is the king of trial plots' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'You've just got to keep reading' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Grisham at his best' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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4.4
88 reviews
Treaty Moshesh
May 10, 2021
John never disappoints. Thoroughly enjoyed. Just wish the real life prisoner were to be set free soon enough.
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Liz Edmiston
April 15, 2025
Standard John Grisham. Interesting, bit predictable, easy to read. Enjoyable.
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Dex
October 25, 2022
Great book!
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About the author

Since The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has published a number one bestseller every year. His books have been translated into 45 languages and have sold over 350 million copies worldwide. Nine have been adapted to film, including The Firm, The Pelican Brief and A Time To Kill.

His first work of non-fiction, The Innocent Man, was adapted into a six-part Netflix docuseries; his second, Framed, highlights work with organisations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted.

He is the two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was distinguished with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

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