検索キーワード： 著者 "John Grisham" すべてのカテゴリー

À dix-sept ans, Samuel Sooleymon, originaire du Soudan, se voit offrir la chance de sa vie : un voyage aux États-Unis pour jouer dans un tournoi de basket-ball, l'opportunité d'être repéré par des recruteurs universitaires. Pendant la compétition, Samuel reçoit d'effroyables nouvelles de son pays : sa famille est en danger. Accepté à Durham au poste de remplaçant et animé par une féroce volonté de réussir, l'adolescent n'a qu'un seul but : faire venir les siens aux États-Unis.

Desde hace casi un siglo, Biloxi es conocida por sus playas, complejos turísticos e industria pesquera. Pero también tiene un lado oscuro. Esta ciudad de Mississippi es además famosa por el crimen y la corrupción: desde el juego, la prostitución y el contrabando hasta el narcotráfico y los asesinatos a manos de sicarios. Un pequeño grupo controla la actividad criminal y se rumorea que muchos de ellos son miembros de la mafia del sur, conocida como mafia Dixie.

Dark Isle off the Florida coast is said to be cursed: drownings, disappearances and hauntings have been the fate of intruders. The people who lived there were once enslaved. Now abandoned, it is the target of greedy developers. Lovely Jackson is the last survivor and claims to be its legal owner. But there is not a shred of evidence to prove that is true. It's unlikely that the developers will be deterred by the claims of one old woman. They have millions; Lovely only has Steve Mahon, a pro bono environmental lawyer, and Mercer Mann, a floundering novelist, to fight in her corner.

Grace Hale was home from college when she first heard the family legend. In 1947, while her beloved grandfather had been serving as a sheriff in the Piney Woods of south-central Mississippi, he prevented a lynch mob from killing a Black man who was in his jail on suspicion of raping a white woman—only for the suspect to die the next day during an escape attempt. It was a tale straight out of To Kill a Mockingbird, with her grandfather as the tragic hero. This story, however, hid a dark truth.