John Grisham brings a money-hungry lawyer to center stage in 'The Widow'

In The Widow, his 52nd novel and counting, author John Grisham returns to one of his cherished topics: lawyers. But not the ...
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‘I didn’t like it.’ John Grisham on how he fixed his novel ‘The Widow’

It’s been four decades since John Grisham was a small-town Mississippi lawyer, but that experience continues to provide material for his bestselling novels. That was true of his first, “A Time to Kill ...
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John Grisham’s The Widow: a legal mystery that asks if a sleazy lawyer can ever be seen as a ‘good’ victim

Sarah-Jane Coyle receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Is there such a thing as the “perfect victim”? Is it an old lady who is suddenly mugged on the street? And where does a ...
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‘I didn’t like it’: John Grisham on how he fixed his novel ‘The Widow’

It’s been four decades since John Grisham was a small-town Mississippi lawyer, but that experience continues to provide material for his bestselling novels. That was true of his first, “A Time to Kill ...