The Whistler: A Novel

1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In "one of the best crime reads of the year," investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge (Wall Street Journal). Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense, this page-turner is "Worth staying up all night to finish."

Three years after putting a corrupt judge and a crime syndicate behind bars, Lacy Stoltz, now approaching forty, is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman, Jeri Crosby, whose father was murdered twenty years earlier in an unsolved case that has grown stone cold. Jeri has become obsessed with a suspect and has stalked him for two decades, discovering other victims along the way.

Suspicions are easy, 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, with a deep understanding of forensics, police procedure, and the law. Worse yet, he is a judge, under Lacy's jurisdiction, with a list of unsuspecting victims who have wronged him in some way. How can Lacy pursue him without becoming the next name on his list?

In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Now, in The Judge's List, John Grisham's most surprising and chilling novel yet, Lacy faces an even more formidable foe: a sitting judge who is also a serial killer.

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