#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - John Grisham returns to Florida, where The Whistler's Lacy Stoltz takes on a cold case that reveals a judge's darkest secrets. "One of the best crime reads of the year . . . a world-class shocker, worth staying up all night to finish."--The Wall Street Journal In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Along the way, she has discovered other victims. The man Jeri holds responsible for all these deaths is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement. He is the most cunning of all serial killers. He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law. He is a judge, in Florida--under Lacy's jurisdiction. But the man keeps a record of all his victims and targets, people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. Lacy must work to take him down, while somehow keeping her name off his list.
Sobre o autor(a)
Grisham, John
JOHN GRISHAM nasceu no Arkansas, em 1955. Atuou por muitos anos como advogado especializado em Direito Penal e processos de indenização, escrevendo nas horas que o trabalho permitia. Em 1988 publicou seu primeiro livro, Tempo de matar, que foi adaptado para o cinema com um elenco estelar, incluindo Matthew McConaughey no papel de Jake Brigance.Depois disso, Grisham não parou mais de escrever, lançando um best-seller por ano e transformando-se no mestre dos thrillers jurídicos. Teve diversos outros títulos adaptados para o cinema, entre eles O Dossiê Pelicano, com Denzel Washington e Julia Roberts, e A firma, com Tom Cruise. Suas obras geralmente criticam nuances do sistema judiciário americano e das grandes firmas de Direito. |