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The Judge's List
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - John Grisham returns to Florida, where The Whistler's Lacy Stoltz takes on a cold case that reveals a judge's darkest secrets.
"One of the best crime reads of the year . . . a world-class shocker, worth staying up all night to finish."--The Wall Street Journal
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.
Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Along the way, she has discovered other victims.
The man Jeri holds responsible for all these deaths is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement. He is the most cunning of all serial killers. He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law.
He is a judge, in Florida--under Lacy's jurisdiction.
But the man keeps a record of all his victims and targets, people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. Lacy must work to take him down, while somehow keeping her name off his list.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780385546027
EAN:
9780385546027
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
368
Authors:
John Grisham
Publisher:
Doubleday Books
Published Date: 2021-19-10
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I bought this paperback for very long plane flights when I was unsure of charging stations at some airports. Good read.
Not his usual book. I really doubt he wrote this oneI call Baloney. It was a waste of time.
Quit reading part way through. Found it slow going and unrealistic from the get-go, and then it turned ridiculously unrealistic. When the woman discovers the likely man (a Florida judge) who killed her dad had likely killed 5 other people, she claims law enforcement wasn’t interested, but instead goes to the Florida judicial review board. All had been killed by the same unusual strangulation method, lived in different southern states and had negative interactions with the judge long before he became a judge. The FBI has long had The Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit. If the woman had gone to any FBI office, the case would have been turned over to CASKU, and they would have begun a very thorough investigation. And they would have kept the woman’s name confidential until at least there was an indictment … maybe indefinitely. They would be better able to maintain confidentiality better than any judicial review office.I can believe a judge could be a serial killer and a serious computer nerd with excellent programming skills. And I can believe he could hack computers of private individuals and monitor them for years undetected. However, this judge supposedly hacked networks of multiple government agencies and corporations in multiple states and monitored them for years undetected. Wouldn’t happen. Most of these organizations would have excellent IT departments … lots of IT experts, many of whom would be tasked with monitoring for intruders. The judge’s monitoring would have been detected and eventually be traced back to him ... probably within weeks or sooner.When the book got to the point of describing the judge’s hacking (more than half-way through), I was done. Either the author lacks computing knowledge or, more likely, assumes most readers would be lacking.
This was a very good read! Kept me intrigued the whole way through. Lots of interesting facts about Florida and great details about the criminal mind! I love John Grisham!
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