u003cbu003e#1 u003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BEST SELLER • Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in “one of the best crime reads of the year.… Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense…. Worth staying up all night to finish” (u003ciu003eWall Street Journalu003c/iu003e).u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eIn u003ciu003eThe Whistleru003c/iu003e, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eThen she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby’s father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Along the way, she has discovered other victims.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eSuspicions are easy enough, 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. He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eHe is a judge, in Florida—under Lacy’s jurisdiction.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eHe 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. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list?u003cbru003eu003cbru003eThe Judge’s List is by any measure John Grisham’s most surprising, chilling novel yet.
