The Summons

By John Grisham,

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An edge-of-your-seat legal thriller from the undisputed master of the courtroom drama.

Ray Atlee teaches law at the University of Virginia. His ailing father, Judge Atlee, was once a loved - and feared - titan, towering over local law and politics in the ancestral Atlee home of Clanton, Mississippi.…

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1 author picked The Summons as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I was in between two consecutive house moves and with all my cases packed around me, really needed something absorbing to distract from the stress. A tough call. Grisham did the job, though.

He’s a master storyteller, and this had a blinder of a hook right at the start. Ray Atlee is a law teacher in Virginia when he gets a call from his father, a judge, to return home. But he doesn’t get there in time – the judge has died already, and in suspicious circumstances. Ray subsequently picks up a trail of dangerous secrets, his father was not…

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