If you're into gripping legal thrillers with a personal twist, John Grisham's "The Summons" could well be your next page-turner. You'll follow Ray Atlee on a journey back home that quickly turns into an unexpected mystery, with the surprise of a hidden fortune and the suspense of unseen threats. It's the kind of book that will make you question how well you know the people closest to you, while it keeps those pages turning late into the night.

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The alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi, was once a beloved and powerful official who towered over local law and politics for many years.With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of the family estate.Ray reluctantly heads south, but the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret which Ray believes only he knows. Until it becomes clear that someone else knows too...

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