Jake Brigance · Book 3

A Time for Mercy

by John Grisham

Published
13 October 2020
Pages
450
ISBN-13
9780593168592
Type
novel

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About this book

A Time for Mercy is the 3rd entry in John Grisham's Jake Brigance series, published in October 2020 at 450 pages. It sits between Sycamore Row and Homecoming (in Sparring Partners) in the reading order.

Its place in Jake Brigance

A Time for Mercy is book 3 in the Jake Brigance series. It follows Sycamore Row. It is followed by Homecoming (in Sparring Partners). See the full Jake Brigance reading order.

Jake Brigance is a small-town Mississippi defense attorney in fictional Ford County who keeps taking on the cases no one else will touch — cases that force his town, and the reader, to confront race, class, and the limits of the justice system in the Deep South. John Grisham's very first novel, A Time to Kill (1989), introduced Brigance defending a Black father who killed the white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, and the two sequels return to Brigance and Ford County decades later — a bitterly contested…

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