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***THE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH***
'Besides the usual Grisham virtues of an arresting idea, polished plotting and vivid social snapshots, what's impressive here is his willingness to take on fresh challenges' THE SUNDAY TIMES
Nonstop suspense from the Sunday Times bestselling author: Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect - a sitting judge.
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.
'The shocks come thick and fast in this slick thriller that is impossible to put down' THE SUN
' An excellent nail-bitingly tense thriller' IRISH INDEPENDENT
350+ million copies, 45 languages, 9 blockbuster films:
NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAM
Reviews (4)
Guardian Review
This is the second book from the mega-selling thriller writer to feature Lacy Stoltz, a no-nonsense attorney and investigator from Florida. Stoltz, whose specialism is judicial conduct, was last seen in 2016's The Whistler taking on a grubby crime syndicate that was siphoning money to a sitting judge. She has since become disenchanted with work after her department had its budgets slashed, leaving her job heavy on admin and light on action. But then she is contacted by a frightened woman named Jeri Crosby whose father, a professor of constitutional law, was murdered 20 years ago. The police have long given up looking for the culprit, and the FBI have shown little interest, so Crosby has been doing her own digging. The murderer, she claims, is a Pensacola judge who is responsible for at least six killings, each of them enacted out of revenge. Furthermore, he is rich, powerful and a mastermind of the dark web. Could this case offer the challenge that Stoltz has been craving? Grisham, who is a former criminal defence lawyer, provides a slightly bewildering introduction here in which he reminds listeners of Stoltz's backstory, describing her in this book as a "35-year-old lawyer - single, attractive, pretty cool and hip. In fact, I've always had a crush on Lacy." Mercifully, though, the actor Mary-Louise Parker takes over from there, narrating what is a sleekly plotted murder mystery, and expertly conveying both Stoltz's initial ennui and Jeri's jumpiness - the latter born out of fear that she might just be next on the judge's list. Fiona Sturges
Kirkus Review
A vigorous thriller that gets out of the courtroom and into the swampier corners of the Redneck Riviera. Judges are supposed to dispense justice, not administer the death penalty on their own initiative. That's just what Lacy Stoltz is up against, though. The protagonist of The Whistler (2016), she's a jaded investigator for Florida's Board on Judicial Conduct, which, thanks to budget cuts, is dying on the vine, "a leaderless mess." Lacy acts on complaints, and she receives a doozy from a well-put-together Black woman who introduces herself as Margie, though she admits that's an alias. Her father, a much-respected professor of constitutional law, had retired to South Carolina and was murdered by an unknown killer. Now the coldest of cold cases, his death is a link in an evidentiary chain that only Margie--her real name is Jeri Crosby--has managed to construct. The murderer: a circuit judge sitting in Pensacola, biding his time until he can cross off the next victim on a deeply personal to-be-avenged list. Judge Bannick has more money than God and more technological goodies than Lex Luthor, but though a psycho, he puts on a good public face. Lacy is resistant at first, given that her normal brief is to investigate complaints about drunkenness or corruption, but she allows that "six murders would certainly liven up her caseload." And then some. We don't meet the killing judge until halfway through the book, and then he's a model of clinical badness in a game of cat and mouse that ends in--well, a rather frothily grisly moment. As with all his procedurals, Grisham injects professorial notes on crime and justice into the proceedings: "This country averages fifteen thousand murders a year. One-third are never solved….Since 1960, over two hundred thousand." And as ever, with one body unaccounted for, he leaves the door ajar to admit a sequel--one that, with luck, will team Lacy with the much more energetic Jeri to enact some justice of their own. A shiny bauble of mayhem sure to please Grisham's many fans. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
In 2016's The Whistler, Grisham introduced lawyer Lacy Stoltz, a member of the Florida Board on Judicial Misconduct, whose investigation of a crooked judge turned up a major conspiracy. Now she's faced with a shocking accusation: a woman claims her father was murdered by a sitting judge and that he was just one of the judge's victims. Could this be true? Could a veteran jurist really be a serial killer? Other investigators might shy away from taking on such a case, but not Lacy. Although she initially approaches the woman's story with a healthy amount of skepticism, she soon discovers that there could be something to it, and once she's on the case, there is nothing that can deter her, not even threats against her own life. Grisham's ability to create realistic, sympathetic characters really counts here: the story isn't among his most original--the bad-judge theme has been around quite a while--but The Judge's List feels fresh because Lacy herself is such a fresh character. Expect this one to hang around best-seller lists for quite a while.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Grisham is back in his legal-thriller wheelhouse here, and his adoring minions won't be denied.
Library Journal Review
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, challenged a crime syndicate paying off a crooked judge. Now she's back, facing the possibility that a judge is committing a crime far worse--murder.