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Ford County
In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.
Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who’s been locked away on death row for eleven years. It could well be their last visit.
Mack Stafford, a hard-drinking and low-grossing run-of-the-mill divorce lawyer, gets a miracle phone call with a completely unexpected offer to settle some old, forgotten cases for more money than he has ever seen. Mack is suddenly bored with the law, fed up with his wife and his life, and makes drastic plans to finally escape.
The Associate
“GRISHAM HAS A FIELD DAY…The Associate grabs the reader quickly and becomes impossible to put down.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
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John Grisham on The Today Show
Author John Grisham talks to Today’s Matt Lauer about his new short story collection, discounting of best-sellers and the future of printed books. Watch the segment.
Fetching Raymond by John Grisham
Read “Fetching Raymond,” a short story from John Grisham’s new book Ford County.
VIDEO: John Grisham on Ford County, Part 4
Part 4 of a series of conversations with John Grisham about his first collection of short stories, Ford County.
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Part 1 of a series of conversations with John Grisham about his first collection of short stories, Ford County. Also watch Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
