In 1970, The Ford County Times, one of Mississippi's weekly newspapers, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by 23-year-old college drop-out, Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgittt family.

Rudy Baylor is a newly-qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case alone, to save himself from his debts. His case is against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man's life, but instead refused to pay the claim until it was too late. The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem.

In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely. Soon, they have to be sequestered. Then, a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the juror's increasingly odd behaviour.

Michael was in a hurry, he was scrambling up the ladder in a law firm and the money was good. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived, his assailant did not. Soon Michael was in the street and on the run.

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.

An eccentric, reclusive billionaire looking for a way to die, a Washington litigator just out of rehab and trying to hold it together and a women who left the modern world to live with Indians are all brought together by 'The Testament'.

This is a collection of seven stories of the American Deep South, set in fictional Ford County, Mississippi.

Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, he abducted, raped and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. Donte Drumm, a local football star with no connection to the crime was subsequently convicted. Nine years later, Donte Drumm is four days from execution. Travis is now the only one who can save him.

Neely was once star quarterback for Messina High School's football team but his playing days ended with an injury. For 15 years he's been trying to forget his past as sporting hero but hasn't been able to move on. That is until Neely learns that the man who moulded him - coach Eddie Rake - is dying. so he returns to Messina.

'Playing for Pizza' is a novel about a fallen American football star who can no longer get work in the National Football League and whose agent, as a last resort, signs a deal for him to play for the Parma Panthers in Italy. The quarterback's move to a small city in a foreign land leads to a series of cultural misadventures.