Florida Bar Journal, July 1st, 2002
by John Grisham
John Grisham's The Summons marks his return to the legal thrillers that made him a bestselling author. Ray Atlee, a law professor at the University of Virginia, is summoned home to rural Mississippi by his widowed father, a retired judge. There, as in all the Grisham novels, the twists and turns begin.
Arriving at the once grand house, he finds his father laying dead on the sofa. He searches through his father's possessions and quickly finds two surprises. A holographic will sits on a desk, dividing his father's estate between Ray and his substance abusing brother Forrest. ...
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