A widow named Eleanor Barnett hires small-time lawyer Simon Latch to draw up a will, and mentions the fortune her husband left her that nobody else knows about. Simon does the sensible thing and the quiet thing. Neither saves him when her story falls apart and he is put on trial for killing her. He knows he is innocent; the evidence says otherwise, and finding the killer is the only way out.
Hardcover first edition, 416 pages, from Doubleday, published October 2025. It opened at number one on the New York Times list.
Grisham calls it his first whodunit: the courtroom is still there, but the book is built around finding the real killer.
Book details
- Author: John Grisham
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 416
- Published: October, 2025
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9780385548984

