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The Judge's List

The engrossing legal thriller from the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling author

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By: John Grisham
Narrated by: John Grisham, Mary-Louise Parker
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Summary

 Nonstop suspense from the Sunday Times bestselling author: Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect - a sitting judge.

In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.

Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Along the way, she has discovered other victims.

Suspicions are easy enough, but proof seems impossible. The man is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement. He is the most cunning of all serial killers. He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law.

He is a judge, in Florida - under Lacy's jurisdiction.

He has a list, with the names of his victims and targets, all unsuspecting people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list?

The Judge's List is by any measure John Grisham's most surprising, chilling novel yet.

PRAISE FOR JOHN GRISHAM

'When Grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real they're not just alive, they're pulsating' Mirror

'A superb, instinctive storyteller' The Times

'Storytelling genius . . . he is in a league of his own' Daily Record

350+ million copies, 45 languages, 9 blockbuster films:
NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAM

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Critic Reviews

Besides the usual Grisham virtues of an arresting idea, polished plotting and vivid social snapshots, what's impressive here is his willingness to take on fresh challenges
The shocks come thick and fast in this slick thriller that is impossible to put down
Mary-Louise Parker narrates with a methodical clarity and an ominous energy that had me chewing my nails anxiously
An excellent nail-bitingly tense thriller
This year's must read
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Really enjoyed the book but unfortunately the narration left me annoyed. It was read like she was thinking, or contemplating or questioning every line. Quite strange really and annoying after a while.

Good book, not so good narration.

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Great story, well paced , very apparent that the subject has been thoroughly researched. Excellent narration.

Thoroughly enjoyed.

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Story line was good, but I found it extremely difficult to listen to. The narrator was monotonous, no feeling in the way she read what so ever. I would avoid further books read by her.

Narration was dreadful

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What a marvellous cliffhanger type novel. This comes of course from reading “The Whistler”. I can’t turn off the audio on this one. Just loving it to the max. C’mon John negotiate a thriller film. I’m there!!!

Gotta be a film in this!!!!

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I hope they turn this into a movie!! The narrator was excellent too! John Grisham does it again!

Five star 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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