The Judge's List: A Novel

John Grisham

Oct 2021 · The Whistler Book 2 · Sold by Anchor

About this ebook

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in “one of the best crime reads of the year.... Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense.... Worth staying up all night to finish” (Wall Street Journal).
    
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.

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Ratings and reviews

The plot and characters of The Judge's List are quite bland. They did not excite too much and the characters were molds other better characters from other stories. Lacy, for example, was a standard detective archetype from any mystery story. The fascinating part about The Judge's List is the prose style. The writing is fantastic, the dialogue is witty and the descriptions are interesting, funny and move the plot forward. This made the book a real page-turner even though the plot was standard. Overall, what made this book great was not the characters or the plot, which were both mediocre. It was the writing style that keep the story clever, fun and imaginative.

this is one of the worst Grissom books that are out there. there are so many holes in the story. so many problems with the characters. it's just laughable. I'm a big John Grisham fan, but I have noticed over the years the more books that he writes the worse his writing gets. maybe you'll like it. I did not

I have been a fan of John Grishams books however this one did not hold up to my expectation . Unable to get into the book from the beginning. a

About the author

John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
 
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
 
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
 
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.