I haven't finished this book yet, but I will tonight. I would've finished it this morning but I didn't want to put my contacts in and reading that way slows me down a lot.
If you read A Time To Kill by Grisham and you loved it, you'll love this. It's the same town and mostly the same characters. It contains that same essence of race baiting and fighting and small town Southern politics. It's a return to the fast paced legal thriller for Grisham, while still creating fully fleshed characters that are more than their stereotypes would have you believe. I've always thought that A Time to Kill was his best book and this one sits right with it.
Nicely enough, it's not set in the present, he actually puts it only 3 years after A Time to Kill, so it's late 80s, early 90s. Most of the time, it doesn't seem to matter except for a few times that you get set back (when they're talking about having car phones installed).
Basically (and as far as I've gotten), an old white man, Seth Hubbard, commits suicide rather than dying from lung cancer. His family hates him, he hates them. Turns out, old Seth was a multi-millionaire, so suddenly his kids like him a lot better. So, when attorney Jake, who never met him, receives a handwritten will from Seth in the mail that cuts his family out of all of his monies and leaves it to his black housekeeper a day after his suicide, the explosion starts rather quickly. That's pretty much as far as I've gotten (a courtroom scene with 11 attorneys in it is hilarious).