The 16-year-old son of Kofer’s girlfriend is charged with capital murder.ĭrew Gamble shot Kofer, with the deputy’s own gun. That gunshot in the night killed Stuart Kofer, a county sheriff’s deputy. Then his old friend and mentor Judge Omar Noose (whose name sounds like he wandered out of a Dickens novel) hands him another of those apparently unwinnable, and probably utterly unprofitable, cases. Jake is suing on behalf of the infant daughter who wasn’t in the car that night his witnesses say the crossing signals weren’t working. His highest hopes for a solid payday rest on a lawsuit he’s pursuing involving a collision between a car and a train that left a family of four dead.
This book is set in 1990, just five years after the events of A Time to Kill, and Jake is still hustling for cases in Clanton. Grisham wrote Sycamore Row, a sequel to A Time to Kill, in 2013, and he’s brought Jake back for a third act in A Time for Mercy. Its lawyer hero, Jake Brigance, took on a seemingly unwinnable case boiling with issues of race that split the fictional small town of Clanton, Miss., and nearly cost him his life. His first novel, A Time to Kill, published in 1988 and made into a hit movie in 1996, grew directly out of his practice of law in a small town in Mississippi.
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