I bought this on 2-22-20 from Wallace Books in Portland, OR for a dollar. We were visiting our son there for his 40th birthday.

c. 2013 -- 642 pages includes Bonus Material -- Paperback -- #2 Jake Brigance -- 17 weeks on USA Today Bestseller list:
#2 (10/31/13+11/14+11/21)
#3 (11/7/13+12/26+1/2/14)
#4 (11/28/13)
#5 (12/19/13+1/9/14)
#6 (12/5/13+12/12)
#7 (9/4/14)
#9 (8/28/14)
#10 (1/16/14+1/23+1/30+9/25)

Back Cover: John Grisham takes you back to where it all began. One of the most popular novels of our time, A Time to Kill established John Grisham as the master of the legal thriller. Now we return to Ford County as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension.

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree. Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raises many more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row?

I finished reading this today and actually rated it a 9.5. Why would Seth Hubbard hang himself and leave millions in a new will to his negro maid (Lettie Lang) and nothing to his 2 ex-wives, children or grandchildren? The fights battle it out in the court room, all trying to understand an answer to this question. The ending wraps things up beautifully as justice is finally served for the wrongs of the past.

SPOILER:
Seth's father lynched Lettie's grandfather in the same row of sycamore trees.

Released in our Sunset Little Free Library

UPDATE 10/11/22: NO LONGER IN LIBRARY

I released this book in exchange for another book.