John Grisham Books in Order

They raped his ten-year-old daughter. Now Carl Lee Hailey sits in a Mississippi jail cell for shooting the two white men who destroyed his little girl's life. Young lawyer Jake Brigance takes the case that will tear Ford County apart and put his own life on the line.

Mitch McDeere has it all: a Harvard law degree and a job offer from a prestigious Memphis firm offering an incredible salary, a BMW, and a low-interest mortgage. There's just one catch. When lawyers try to leave the firm, they end up dead.

Two Supreme Court justices are dead. A brilliant law student writes a legal brief speculating why they were killed. She's probably wrong. So why is everyone who reads it ending up dead? Now she's running for her life with only an investigative reporter to trust.

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway knows where the mob buried a senator's body. The FBI wants him to talk. The Mafia wants him dead. His only hope is Reggie Love, a rookie lawyer with nothing to lose and everything to prove.

Sam Cayhall sits on death row for a Klan bombing that killed two children. With days left to live, his grandson Adam Hall arrives to handle the final appeal. As Adam digs into the case, he uncovers family secrets that challenge everything he believes about guilt and redemption.

Rudy Baylor is broke, inexperienced, and fresh out of law school. His first case pits him against a billion-dollar insurance company that refused to pay for a dying boy's treatment. They have an army of lawyers. Rudy has a borrowed suit and the truth.

The tobacco industry has never lost a lawsuit. This time, someone on the jury has their own agenda. As lawyers battle in court, a mysterious woman offers to deliver the verdict to whoever pays the most. But in this game of manipulation, nothing is what it seems.

Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars from his law firm, faked his own death, and disappeared. Four years later, they find him in Brazil. Tortured and dragged back to face justice, Patrick has one more card to play. But some secrets are worth killing for.

Michael Brock has everything: a partnership track at a powerful D.C. firm, a gorgeous apartment, a six-figure salary. Then a homeless man with a gun takes him hostage and changes his life forever. Now Michael's about to discover what his firm will do to protect its secrets.

Eccentric billionaire Troy Phelan shocks his greedy heirs with his final act: signing a new will moments before leaping to his death. His fortune goes to an illegitimate daughter nobody knew existed, a missionary hiding in the Brazilian jungle. Now someone has to find her before the lawyers destroy everything.

Three disgraced judges run their scam from inside a federal prison, blackmailing closeted gay men through lonely hearts letters. It's the perfect crime until they accidentally snare the wrong victim: a man whose secrets the CIA will do anything to protect.

Seven-year-old Luke Chandler has never seen the world beyond his family's cotton farm in Arkansas. But in the scorching summer of 1952, everything changes. When migrant workers arrive for the harvest, they bring dark secrets that will shatter Luke's childhood innocence forever.

Luther and Nora Krank have the perfect plan: skip Christmas entirely and escape to the Caribbean. No decorations, no parties, no stress. But when the neighbors find out, their peaceful rebellion turns into the most chaotic holiday season of their lives.

Ray Atlee returns home to bury his father, a beloved small-town judge. In his father's study, Ray finds three million dollars in cash. No explanation. No paper trail. Taking the money will change his life. So will leaving it. Someone else knows about the fortune, and they're watching.

Neely Crenshaw was once the greatest quarterback Messina High ever produced. Now he's back in his hometown, sitting in the bleachers with other former players, waiting for their legendary coach to die. As old teammates gather, they must finally confront the brutal truth about the price of glory.

Clay Carter is a burned-out public defender going nowhere fast. Then he stumbles onto a conspiracy involving a pharmaceutical giant and a dangerous drug. Overnight, he becomes a mass tort lawyer making millions. But easy money always comes with a price.

In 1970, young journalist Willie Traynor buys a small Mississippi newspaper and covers the trial of a brutal killer. The murderer threatens revenge on every juror who convicted him. Nine years later, after his release, the jurors start dying one by one.

Joel Backman sold intelligence secrets to the highest bidder. After six years in solitary confinement, he's suddenly pardoned and whisked away to Italy with a new identity. But freedom comes with a price: the CIA wants to see who kills him first.

This is the true story that's scarier than fiction. Ron Williamson had everything going for him until he was wrongfully convicted of murder. Grisham exposes the broken justice system that sent an innocent man to death row and nearly executed him for a crime he didn't commit.

Rick Dockery just became the most hated quarterback in NFL history after throwing three interceptions in eleven minutes. With no team willing to touch him, Rick accepts the only offer he gets: playing for the Panthers. In Parma, Italy. Sometimes rock bottom is exactly where you need to be.

A small Mississippi town wins a massive verdict against a chemical company that poisoned their water. But the corporation has a ruthless plan: buy a seat on the state Supreme Court and overturn the verdict. Justice is about to go to the highest bidder.

Kyle McAvoy has the perfect life ahead of him at Yale Law School. Then someone shows up with a video from his past that could destroy everything. Now he's forced to take a job at the largest law firm in the world and steal secrets that nations would kill for.

Return to Ford County, Mississippi, where Jake Brigance first made his mark. Seven stories of ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances: from casino heists to death row visits, each tale reveals the humor and heartbreak of small-town Southern life.

Thirteen-year-old Theo Boone knows more about the law than most lawyers. When a cold-blooded killer is about to walk free, only Theo knows the truth that could convict him. But there's one problem: the witness is too terrified to come forward.

An innocent man will be executed in Texas in four days. The real killer decides to confess, but he's nine hours away and nobody believes him. A desperate race against time begins to stop an execution that the whole system seems determined to carry out.

David Zinc hates his corporate law job. After a spectacular meltdown, he stumbles drunk into the offices of Finley & Figg, a two-bit firm chasing ambulances in Chicago. Together they take on a pharmaceutical giant in a case that could make them rich or destroy them completely.

Theo's best friend April has vanished in the middle of the night. While the police chase false leads and her family fears the worst, Theo uses everything he knows about the law and his town to track down the one person who might have taken her.

The Graney family makes their way to Parchman prison on execution day. As they drive through the Mississippi heat to say goodbye to Raymond, old resentments and painful truths surface. Some journeys change you forever.

Bobby Carl Leach runs the dirtiest poker game in Ford County. When a desperate lawyer hatches a plan to beat him at his own rigged game, it seems too crazy to work. But sometimes the best cons are the ones nobody sees coming.

Small-town lawyer Mack Stafford takes cases nobody else wants. When he stumbles onto something big hiding in his pile of worthless files, he discovers that sometimes the best opportunities come disguised as complete disasters.

At Quiet Haven nursing home, the residents are planning something. What starts as a minor rebellion against the staff becomes an elaborate scheme that proves you're never too old to cause trouble.

Someone broke into the computer store and stole thousands of dollars in equipment. All the evidence points to Theo Boone. The kid lawyer who knows everything about justice suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law, fighting to prove his innocence.

In the summer of 1973, Joe Castle becomes baseball's newest sensation, breaking records with every swing. Then one pitch changes everything. Thirty years later, the son of the pitcher who threw that devastating ball must bring these two men together before it's too late.

Malcolm Bannister is doing ten years in federal prison for a crime he didn't commit. When a federal judge is murdered, Malcolm knows who did it and why. But to get out of prison, he'll have to play a dangerous game that makes him the FBI's most wanted man.

A bypass highway threatens to destroy Theo's town and the hundred-year-old farms in its path. When Theo discovers corruption behind the project, he rallies his classmates to fight city hall. But taking on powerful politicians and big money means playing a dangerous game.

Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree. The richest man in Ford County leaves a shocking new will that cuts out his family and gives everything to his Black housekeeper. Jake Brigance must defend a dead man's final wish against a town that wants answers.

Wall Street lawyer Samantha Kofer loses everything in the financial collapse. Desperate for work, she takes a job at a legal clinic deep in Appalachia. What starts as a temporary detour becomes a dangerous battle against coal companies who will stop at nothing to protect their deadly secrets.

Sebastian Rudd isn't your typical lawyer. His office is a bulletproof van. He defends people everyone else hates: cop killers, terrorists, pedophiles. Why? Because everyone deserves a defense. Even if it means making enemies who want him dead.

On a school trip to Washington D.C., Theo spots the most wanted man in America casually walking the streets. The FBI doesn't believe him. Now Theo must catch a dangerous fugitive on his own while trying to stay alive himself.

Someone is stealing millions from the Native American casino, and the FBI can't touch them. Investigator Lacy Stoltz discovers the thieves are protected by a corrupt judge with ties to organized crime. Getting too close to the truth might be the last thing she ever does.

A cheating scandal rocks Theo's middle school when someone hacks the computerized testing system. Theo knows who did it, but telling the truth means betraying a friend. Sometimes doing the right thing is the hardest choice of all.

Paul has a brain tumor. In one scenario, he faces invasive surgery with terrible consequences. In another, revolutionary focused ultrasound technology saves his life. Grisham explores real medical breakthroughs through a fictional patient's journey that could soon be reality for millions.

Sebastian Rudd takes on a case nobody wants: defending a teenage boy accused of unspeakable crimes. The evidence is overwhelming, the town wants blood, and Sebastian's about to learn why some clients are more dangerous than others.

Junior Mace is on trial for murder, and the whole town is watching. As the prosecution's case unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing in this courtroom is quite what it seems. This glimpse into judicial corruption sets the stage for The Whistler.

Three friends in their final year of law school realize they've been scammed. Their school is a fraud, they're drowning in debt, and they'll never pass the bar exam. Their solution? Drop out, pretend to be lawyers, and take down the crooks who ruined their lives.

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Five priceless manuscripts stolen from Princeton. A mysterious bookstore owner on a Florida resort island. A struggling writer recruited for an undercover mission she never saw coming. Welcome to the literary heist that will keep you guessing until the final page.

Pete Banning is the most decorated soldier from Ford County, a devoted family man, and a respected farmer. One October morning in 1946, he walks into church and calmly shoots the pastor dead. His only statement: "I have nothing to say." Why did he do it?

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Quincy Miller has spent twenty-two years in prison for killing a lawyer he never met. Cullen Post, an attorney who works to free the innocent, takes the case. But the real killers are still out there, and they'll do whatever it takes to keep the truth buried.

Theo's friend is caught in a dangerous credit card scheme that's bigger than anyone imagined. Now Theo must navigate the murky waters between loyalty and justice, learning hard truths about friendship and the law along the way.

Jake Brigance thought he'd seen it all in Clanton, Mississippi. Then a sixteen-year-old boy shoots a deputy in cold blood. The whole town wants the death penalty, but Jake discovers shocking truths that blur the lines between victim and killer, forcing him to risk everything for justice.

A devastating hurricane tears through Camino Island. When the storm clears, bestselling author Nelson Kerr is found dead. Bruce Cable and his literary friends suspect murder, but proving it means uncovering a conspiracy that someone will kill to protect.

Samuel Sooleymon gets his shot at the American dream when scouts bring him from war-torn South Sudan to play college basketball. Just as his talent explodes onto the court, devastating news from home threatens to destroy everything he's worked for.

Lacy Stoltz investigates corrupt judges. Her newest case seems impossible: hunting a serial killer who happens to be a sitting judge. He's brilliant, careful, and has been getting away with murder for years. One mistake could make Lacy his next victim.

Three gripping legal stories: Jake Brigance faces an impossible case in "Homecoming." A young man counts down his final hours on death row in "Strawberry Moon." Two brothers who despise each other must work together or watch their law firm crumble in "Sparring Partners."

Two boys grow up as best friends in Biloxi, Mississippi. Decades later, one is the district attorney fighting organized crime. The other runs the most dangerous criminal empire on the Gulf Coast. Their final showdown will happen in a courtroom, and only one will survive.

Fifteen years after escaping the mob in Memphis, Mitch McDeere is a partner at a massive international law firm. When a colleague disappears in Libya during a routine business trip, Mitch plunges into a world of terrorism, ransom, and betrayal where his old survival skills are his only hope.

A peaceful barrier island near Camino holds a dark secret: the last living descendant of the enslaved people who once lived there. When developers target the pristine land, Bruce Cable and Mercer Mann discover that some histories refuse to stay buried.

Ten true stories more shocking than any thriller. Innocent people railroaded by corrupt cops, lying witnesses, and a justice system that failed them. Grisham and Jim McCloskey reveal how easily anyone can be convicted of crimes they didn't commit, and the heroes fighting to set them free.

Small-town lawyer Race Maggard finally lands a wealthy client: an elderly widow with millions hidden away. When she dies mysteriously and leaves everything to Race, he becomes the prime suspect in her murder. To save himself, he must uncover the truth about a fortune built on secrets and lies.