A Time for Mercy
- Published
- 13 October 2020
- Pages
- 450
- ISBN-13
- 9780593168592
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about A Time for Mercy
A Time for Mercy is a novel by John Grisham. Readers have had it since 13 October 2020. It runs to 450 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of A Time for Mercy. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593168592 to find the main one.
A Time for Mercy is book 3 of 4 in the Jake Brigance series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with A Time to Kill (1989). Homecoming (in Sparring Partners) is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 31 May 2022.
Additionally, John Grisham writes Theodore Boone and Camino Island as separate series. Those series sit on our legal thriller, middle grade and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Widow is the latest published John Grisham book on file, from October 2025.
About John Grisham
John Grisham is an American author widely credited with popularizing the modern legal thriller, having sold hundreds of millions of books across a career built on tightly plotted stories of lawyers, courtrooms, and corporate or criminal conspiracy. See every John Grisham book in 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593168592