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How well do you know the couple next door? or your husband? or even yourself? anne and marco conti seem to have it all, a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, cora. but one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. but the truth is a much more complicated story. inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. detective rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. both anne and marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they’ve kept for years.

In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career, john grisham brings us the powerful sequel to a time to kill. as filled with page-turning twists as it is with legal mastery, sycamore row proves beyond doubt that john grisham is in a league of his own. jake brigance has never met seth hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man’s suicide note names him attorney for his estate. the will is dynamite. seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. the vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in ford county is race, and this case has both. as the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, jake searches for answers to the many questions left by seth hubbard’s death: what made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named lettie lang? why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as sycamore row? and what was it that seth and his brother witnessed as children that, in his words, ‘no human should ever see’?

A rock, a hard place and the biggest legal battle the planet has ever seen. 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. one night that secret catches up with him in the form of some bad men in a dark alley — they have a deeply compromising video of the incident that haunts him. the men make it clear to kyle that he no longer owns his own future — that he must do as they tell him, or the video will be made public knowledge, with all the unpleasant consequences. what price do they demand for kyle’s secret? strangely, it is for kyle to do exactly what any ambitious young lawyer would want to do: take a job in new york as an associate at the largest law firm in the world, a job that is incredibly well paid and, with mammoth hours and outrageous billing, could lead to partnership and a fortune. but kyle won’t be working for the company, but against it – passing on the secrets of the company’s biggest trial to date, a dispute between two defense contractors worth billions of dollars to the victor. now kyle is caught between the criminal forces manipulating him and the fbi, who would love to unmask the conspiracy. will his intellect, cunning and bravery be enough to extricate him from an impossible dilemma? full of twists and turns and reminiscent of the firm, the associate is vintage john grisham