mississippi

Collects seven short stories by John Grisham that take place in Ford County, Mississippi, where his first novel, "A Time to Kill," took place, including "Blood Drive," "Fetching Raymond," "Fish Files," "Casino," "Michael's Room," "Quiet Haven," and "Funny Boy.".

In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhumane crime until her African-American father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands.

Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American who was beaten and killed in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, reflects on what it was like to grow up in Mississippi during the 1940s and 1950s, reveals details about the night Emmett was kidnapped, and reflects on how the crime and trial affected his family and the community.

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Sartoris family, who with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stands for the best of the Old South's traditions.

Ford County lawyer Jake Brigance is thrust into the center of a murder trial and mystery after wealthy Seth Hubbard, who was dying of lung cancer, commits suicide and leaves all of his fortune to his African-American maid, raising questions about the circumstances of his death and a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row.

Law professor Ray Atlee and his troublesome younger brother Forrest are called home to Clanton, Mississippi by their dying father, Judge Atlee, but when the judge dies before the meeting can take place, Ray is left to untangle an old family secret.

Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O'Donnell past behind.

Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.

Chronicles the 1955 murder in Money, Mississippi, of Chicago teenager, Emmett Till, by local store owner Roy Bryant and his brother-in-law, J.W. Milam, the trial and acquittal that followed, and how the incident impacted the civil rights movement.