

Tonya is later found and rushed to the hospital while Pete and Billy Ray are heard bragging at a roadside bar about their crime. In the small town of Clanton, in fictional Ford County, Mississippi, a ten-year-old African-American girl named Tonya Hailey is viciously raped and beaten by two white supremacists, James "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. The stage production opened at the Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.) in May 2011 and opened on Broadway in October 2013. In 2011, it was further adapted into a stage play of the same name by Rupert Holmes.

In 1996, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Doubleday eventually took over the contract for A Time to Kill and released a special hardcover edition. When Doubledaypublished The Firm, Wynwood released a trade paperback of A Time to Kill, which became a bestseller. Dell published the mass market paperback months after the success of The Firm, bringing Grisham to widespread popularity among readers. The novel was rejected by many publishers before Wynwood Press eventually gave it a modest 5,000-copy printing. 1989 1st year edition Doubleday publishers, New York hardbound in ebony and blue boards with gilt lettering on spine very good condition with unmarked pages dust jacket very good.
