A Time to Kill

Name: A Time to Kill
Author: John Grisham

by John Grisham

Legal thriller about a young lawyer defending a Black man accused of murdering his daughter's rapist

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John Grisham

John Grisham is the most commercially successful legal thriller writer in the world, whose debut A Time to Kill and follow-up The Firm established the modern legal thriller as a major commercial genre. His novels sold over 300 million copies and were adapted into numerous successful films. He remains a dominant force in American commercial fiction.

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