Search - The Summons

A great story from Grisham. I was surprised and sad about the end.

It's John Grisham. One of my favorites.

Grisham captivates you right from the start and keeps you in suspense to the very end.

A very exciting suspenseful mystery involving family secrets

Great book - John Grisham is one of my favorite authors.

excellant read loved the ride

Tough start...begins kind of slow. But once you start reading it, you can't put it down...EVEN IF YOU WANT TO, DON'T. It's a very gotchya ending :)

kind of slow start, but heats up in the middle

Great book, love John Grisham.

Another outstanding read by Grisham. Not entirely focused on the legal process either. Will gab you and hold on.

Typically Grisham in terms of grabbing your interest from the first page, this book travels a different path from the usual legal thrillers. Two brothers are summoned to the old family home to discuss their father's estate with him. But the father dies too soon, and the sons become deeply involved in the secret he left behind.

All I can say is John Grisham did it again!!!!

I have loved Grisham in the past, but this book was awful! Droned on and on with pointless information. This could have been about 1/4 of the length and then may have been alright, but the ending was still an anticlimactic letdown. Mostly I just felt bored reading this.

I loved how this book had some of the same characters as The King of Torts. I don't think it matters which one you read first.

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virgina. He's forty-three. newly single,and still enduring the aftershocks of a suprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. and he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is know to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and becomes a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for RAy and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The judge dies too soon and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to ray. And perhaps someone else.

This is the BOMC edition.

"Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep." "And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse." "With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study." "Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray." And perhaps someone else.

Judge Atlee is "a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi." He "issues a summons for both sons to return home ... to discuss the details of his estate."
From the cover.

A simple note from his dying father, Judge Atlee, summons Ray and his brother Forrest to the antebellum, crumbling family mansion to go over details of the estate. Ray finds his father dead, him named executor, and a secret that demands investigation and answers. Book was not one of my favorite Grisham's.

Ray Atlec is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep.
And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.
With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationary, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study.
Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.