![]() ![]() Office discipline was waning as BJC spiraled into a leaderless mess.Īs a veteran, the veteran, it was important to set an example. At that moment, though, Lacy was bored, and she did not wish to waste the emotional energy necessary to properly chastise the kid and set her straight. “There’s a call on line three,” she announced. The Board on Judicial Conduct had just seen its budget chopped for the fourth straight year by a legislature that hardly knew it existed.įelicity managed to route the cal l down the hall to the cluttered desk of Lacy Stoltz. They were all leaving, it seemed, especially the clerical help. It was taken by a tattooed receptionist named Felicity, a new girl who would be gone before she fully understood the phones. ![]() The call came through the office landline, through a system that was at least twenty years old and had fought off all technological advances. The Judge's List By John Grisham Introduction Excerpt. The Judge’s List is by any measure John Grisham’s most surprising, chilling novel yet. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list? 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. He is a judge, in Florida-under Lacy’s jurisdiction. He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law. He is the most cunning of all serial killers. ![]() The man is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement. Suspicions are easy enough, but proof seems impossible. Along the way, she has discovered other victims. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Jeri Crosby’s father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. ![]() She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. The Judge's List: A Novel (The Whistler) In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. ![]()
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