Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he's good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life.

A collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County - a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams and final wishes converge - in which a mercy mission that is hilariously sidetracked by human weakness; a manipulative death row inmate with one last plea; and, a small town divorce attorney who suddenly hits pay dirt.

Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he's good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life.

In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst cancer cluster in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.

Troy is a self-made billionaire. He is also eccentric, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. Nate is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. And, Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God. In this story, their lives are altered by the startling secret of The Testament.

In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. This work is an exploration of justice gone terribly awry.

A young mother was raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. The trial of Danny Padgitt came to a dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty. But nine years later he was out, and the retribution began.

For the first time since A Time to Kill , Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi - a place rich in colourful characters and dark family secrets. This time he tells the story of a dying judge who leaves his dissolute sons three million dollars in used bank notes.

They found him in a small town in Brazil, near the border with Paraguay. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. Before, he had another life, a life which ended in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetry in Biloxi, Mississippi. His name before his death was Patrick S Lanigan.

A collection of short stories that takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of the author's first novel, A Time to Kill .

In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. It seems that Backman, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.

Tells the story of Rick Dockery: how he was dropped by the Browns only to be picked up by an Italian team.

The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay has been there too long, and dreams of a better job. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he digs into the background of his client, and stumbles upon a conspiracy too horrible to believe.

Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals - drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in the law library where they handle cases for other inmates, and practise law without a licence.

Adam Hill is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him?

Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Brilliant, beautiful and ambitious, New Orleans legal student Darby Shaw little realises that her speculative brief will penetrate to the highest levels of power in Washington and cause shockwaves there - shockwaves that will see her boyfriend atomised in a bomb blast.

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D C firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better. He was a rising star with no time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; but his assailant did not. Who was this homeless man?

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether.

When Mitchell McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. The firm the Mitchell McDeere chose was small, but-well respected. They exceed Mitch's wildest dreams: eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low-interest mortgage. Now the house, the car and the job are his. Then the nightmares begin.