Book Review - The Judge's List - John Grisham (2025 #10)

The Judge's List by John Grisham
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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.

Suspicions are easy enough, but proof seems impossible. The man 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.

He has a list, with the names of his victims and targets, all unsuspecting people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list?

Another fast paced book from Grisham that follows Lacy Stoltz of the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct as she tries to build a case against a sitting Judge for murder. Evidence against him has been provided by the daughter of one of the victims but it's very circumstantial.

As they work together they become caught up in a game of cat and mouse. Who will win?

This is a typical Grisham novel, using legal procedures to provide a fast moving but detailed story. I really enjoyed it.

View all my reviews