A Time to Kill
About this book
A Time to Kill is a 1989 legal thriller and debut novel by American author John Grisham. The novel was rejected by many publishers before Wynwood Press eventually gave it a 5,000-copy printing. When Doubleday published The Firm, Wynwood released a trade paperback of A Time to Kill, which became a bestseller. Dell published the mass market paperback months after the success of The Firm, bringing Grisham to widespread popularity among readers. Doubleday eventually took over the contract for A Time to Kill and released a special hardcover edition.
---------- Also contained in: The Pelican Brief / A Time to Kill The Testament / A Time To Kill
Subjects
- african american girls
- attorney and client
- brigance, jake (fictitious character), fiction
- capital murder
- capital punishment
- child sexual abuse
- crime fiction
- crime, fiction
- crimes against
- crimes against african american girls
- crimes contre
- detective and mystery fiction
- detective and mystery stories
- disbarment
- district attorneys
- fiction
- fiction, legal
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, suspense
- fiction, thrillers
- fiction, thrillers, general
- fiction, thrillers, suspense
- filles noires américaines
- homicide
- investigation
- ku klux clan
- lawyers
- lawyers, fiction
- legal fiction
- legal stories
- legal thriller
- literature
- m16 rifles
- mississippi, fiction
- murder
- murder trials
- mystery & detective fiction
- mystery fiction
- pro bono publico
- psychological fiction
- race discrimination
- race relations
- revenge
- romans, nouvelles
- suspense fiction
- thriller
- thrillers
- trials (murder)
- vigilantes
- white supremacy