The Pelican Brief
Author: John Grisham
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead, their murders unsolved.But one woman might have found the answer.Darby Shaw is a brilliant New Orleans legal student with a sharp political mind. For her own amusement, she draws up a legal brief showing how the judges might have been murdered for political reasons, and shows it to her professor. He shows it to his friend, an FBI lawyer….Read More
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