As always, the trial process gives judicial novel dynamic, exciting screenplay structure. The advanced trial creates nonstop action, judicial combat immediately raises the characters of the protagonists and antagonists, everyone's goal is clear. The one is caught by intrigue asked by Grisham: why in the middle of the southern United States, an old man, white multi-millionaire, he disinherited his children and grandchildren and left 90% of its immense fortune to her black housekeeper became his caregiver at the end of his life. What will be the outcome of the trial? Who will win the proceedings challenging the validity of the will? When one is oneself lawyer, found an even greater pleasure to discover the strategy and tactics of the various lawyers responsible for defending their clients with very opposing interests.
But something is not quite right in this book. In my view, the author tries too follow the anatomy lessons scenarios taught in the United States. He follows them to the letter, distils tracks that will allow it to introduce a series of twists and turns, first in the direction of the defendants, and ultimately in the other direction. But all this is a little too methodical, too constructed, sometimes a little laborious. So a good book, but not a masterpiece of the judicial novel.
