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4.5 stars

It’s three years after the Carl Lee Hailey trial, won by lawyer Jake Brigance. It’s Mississippi the late 1980s. Seth Hubbard had cancer and has hung himself. One day before he died, he wrote, signed, and mailed a handwritten will to Jake; the handwritten will cuts out his kids and grandkids, and leaves all his millions to his black housekeeper. Jake has been asked to defend the handwritten will.

I really liked this, but not quite as much as its precursor, A Time to Kill. I listened to the audio of this one and it drew me in right away. It was rare for me to get distracted from it, though it still wasn’t edge-of-your-seat or anything. I wouldn’t say it dragged for me, but there were a few slower parts, I guess. I certainly wanted to keep reading to find out what would happen.