While Justice Sleeps is the perfect summer read.
With only a couple of weeks left in the court’s term, Supreme Court Justice Howard Wynn mysteriously winds up in a coma. Weirder still is his choice of legal guardian and decision-maker: His young clerk Avery Keene.
Tasked with not only the decisions around his medical care, she’s also sent on a perilous search by Justice Wynn to uncover the political scandal of the century. One that has left a slew of bodies in its wake and continues to threaten all those who even catch a glimpse of its many secrets.
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In between organizing for voting rights and helping convince Georgia to vote blue in a presidential election for the first time since 1992, Stacey Abrams somehow found the time to write a thriller.
While Justice Sleeps, out now, is Abrams’s ninth novel and first straight thriller. (Her previous eight novels, all originally published under the pen name Selena Montgomery, were romantic suspense.) She’s also written two nonfiction books. To find out how she does it all, I called her up on the phone.
While Justice Sleeps is an unusually wonky thriller. It begins when Supreme Court Justice Howard Wynn, a cranky libertarian and the Court’s swing vote, falls into a coma right before the Court is set to consider a case involving a pharmaceutical merger. With Howard out of commission, the Court faces an existential crisis. The only way to vacate a Supreme Court justice’s seat is for them to die or retire. So what do you do if a justice isn’t dead or retired,