Jake Brigance · Book 1
A Time to Kill
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 515
- ISBN-13
- 9780385470810
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Time to Kill is the novel that launches John Grisham's Jake Brigance series, first published in 1989, running 515 pages. It precedes Sycamore Row in the reading order. The series has run continuously since 1989.
Its place in Jake Brigance
A Time to Kill is book 1 in the Jake Brigance series. It is followed by Sycamore Row. 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 9780099537038
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9785271350610
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9788371691317