In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhumane crime until her African-American father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands.
year: 1992, 1989, 2004, 2009, 1993
call number/section: 1000
subjects: murder, mississippi, fiction, trials (murder), race relations, legal stories, homicide, mississippi, fiction, trials (homicide)
Editions
Grisham, John
Island Books (1992)
In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhumane crime until her African-American father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands.
Schools: 10
Grisham, John
Wynwood Press (1989)
Schools: 0
Grisham, John
Delta Trade Paperbacks (2004)
Racial tensions erupt in Clanton, Mississippi, after African-American Vietnam veteran Carl Lee Hailey kills the white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter and lawyer Jake Brigance tries to get him acquitted.
Schools: 0
Grisham, John
Dell (2009)
Tonya Hailey is brutally raped, beaten and left for dead by two drunken and remorseless men. After they are caught, Tonya's father shoots them and then must stand trial.
Schools: 2
Grisham, John
Doubleday (1993)
In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old is shattered by two drunken and remorseless men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhumane crime, until her African-American father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands.
Schools: 2
Grisham, John
In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime, until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
Schools: 1