Sycamore Row

Three years after the Carl Lee Hailey trial, Jake Brigance is pulled into a new fight in Clanton, Mississippi. Seth Hubbard, a wealthy man dying of cancer, hangs himself from a sycamore tree — but not before writing a new will by hand, cutting out his adult children and leaving almost everything to Lettie Lang, the Black woman who cared for him in his final months.

The family contests the will, and Jake finds himself defending it in a bitter jury trial that forces Clanton to reckon with its history of racial and economic inequality. As the case unfolds, secrets about Hubbard's past and his reasons for the bequest slowly come to light.

A legal thriller about inheritance, race, and the weight of the past, and the second novel to feature attorney Jake Brigance.