The Judge's List
The Judge's List (2021) is a legal-suspense novel written by American author John Grisham, published by Doubleday on October 19, 2021.[1]
It builds on characters introduced in Grisham's 2016 novel The Whistler, including Florida Board on Judicial Conduct investigator Lacy Stoltz.
Plot
Three years after the events of The Whistler, Lacy Stolz is tired of her work as an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. But when a woman named Jeri Crosby nervously approaches her, Lacy discovers that a sitting judge, Ross Bannick, is a murderer. She's reluctant to get involved, but Jeri is obsessed with bringing the man to justice.
Jeri's father was one of Bannick's victims 20 years earlier, although his case has never been solved. She has studied Bannick for two decades, and has discovered other victims in the process.
While Bannick's guilt is never really in doubt, finding evidence to convict him is a much bigger challenge, because he knows the law, and is always one step ahead of law enforcement. He has a list that includes the names of all his targets who have wronged him in some way, and Lacy must help Jeri establish his guilt without either of them becoming his next victim.
At the climax of the book, Jeri is kidnapped by Bannick, but Lacy and her brother Gunther rescue her and force Bannick to flee. Before they can catch him, however, he overdoses at a rehab facility after mutilating his fingers with acid. Jeri manages to find Bannick's truck, which has a fingerprint that Lacy can use to prove two of Bannick's murders.
Reception
The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list for the week ending October 23, 2021.[2]
Kirkus Reviews called the novel a "shiny bauble of mayhem sure to please Grisham's many fans."[3]
References
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- A Time to Kill (1988)
- The Firm (1991)
- The Pelican Brief (1992)
- The Client (1993)
- The Chamber (1994)
- The Rainmaker (1995)
- The Runaway Jury (1996)
- The Partner (1997)
- The Street Lawyer (1998)
- The Testament (1999)
- The Brethren (2000)
- A Painted House (2001)
- Skipping Christmas (2001)
- The Summons (2002)
- The King of Torts (2003)
- Bleachers (2003)
- The Last Juror (2004)
- The Broker (2005)
- Playing for Pizza (2007)
- The Appeal (2008)
- The Associate (2009)
- The Confession (2010)
- The Litigators (2011)
- Calico Joe (2012)
- The Racketeer (2012)
- Sycamore Row (2013)
- Gray Mountain (2014)
- Rogue Lawyer (2015)
- The Whistler (2016)
- Camino Island (2017)
- The Rooster Bar (2017)
- The Reckoning (2018)
- The Guardians (2019)
- Camino Winds (2020)
- A Time for Mercy (2020)
- The Judge's List (2021)
- The Exchange (2023)
- Camino Ghosts (2024)
- Ford County (2009)
- The Tumor (2015)
- The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (2006)
- Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (2010)
- Theodore Boone: The Abduction (2011)
- Theodore Boone: The Accused (2012)
- Theodore Boone: The Activist (2013)
- Theodore Boone: The Fugitive (2015)
- Theodore Boone: The Scandal (2016)
- Theodore Boone: The Accomplice (2019)
- The Gingerbread Man (1998)
- Mickey (2004)
- The Firm (1993)
- The Pelican Brief (1993)
- The Client (1994)
- A Time to Kill (1996)
- The Chamber (1996)
- The Rainmaker (1997)
- The Gingerbread Man (1998)
- A Painted House (2003)
- Runaway Jury (2003)
- Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
- The Client (1995–1996)
- The Firm (2012)
- The Innocent Man (2018)
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