best selling author john grisham stops by with his new legal thriller "a judge's list."r watching. i'm anne marie green. have a great day.

. >> john grisham, world-famous, the author of dozens of books focusing on crime, was immediately hookedhow up over there, and she's laying in bed, multiple gunshot wounds. >> why mickey? how could anybody do this to mickey? >> as the police are investigating there is an important piece of information. four months earlier, there had been another murder in clifton. >> they said, we found your sister, and she's gone. >> here you had a teenager killed, and they had a schoolteacher killed. that's a lot. >> they tell me i'm arrested for the murder of mickey. >> not in a million years would he even think about doing something like that. >> he just thought he was so smart. he didn't think anybody would ever dream that he would do that. >> the fact you have two murders in four months is pretty substantial. i'm going to dig a bit deeper. i thought, this is a pretty fascinating case. >> it is the most unbelievable case you will ever know. it's simply unbelievable. ♪ ♪n,asit ial was it, -- were you living your dream? >> oh, yes, perfectly. i may get emotional. >> it's painful to remember what life

. >> i feel like if john grisham wrote this, the publisher would say, hey, the writing is great, as alwayshat happened last month when elec was subject to a gunshot. you know the story i'm referring to. then it turns out he apparently hired the guy because he wanted his surviving son to inherit $10 million. >> yeah, that happened on labor day weekend, and the circumstances we are just very peculiar. we know that his lawyer has said that he was essentially fired from the law firm that his family founded 100 years ago the night before because of missing money, possibly including that satterfield settlement. he's under incredible pressure. his wife and son have been killed and he's on the side of the road in a very rural area and says that somebody came by and tried to kill him and now says, oh, i did that to try to shoot myself to claim insurance money again, in this case, for buster, the surviving son. so it's just very, very strange and i think to your point, michael, about the john grisham aspect of this, i think one of the things that makes it so interesting is just -- you just don't kno

. >> reporter: joe's story sparked the idea for john grisham 2019 best-selling novel "the guardians."nterview with bryan on "20/20" tonight and we're going to hear more from john grisham. exclusive interviews with the family and former police officer but this story is one that stays with you. i hope everyone at home gets to hear and watch j bryan's story. it's a compelling one. it's a tragic one, but something we need to learn from. >> two-hour "20/20" event airs at 9:00 eastern on abc. cecelia? >>> we switch gears and turn to "squid game." the global phenomenon is now the most popular show netflix ever released. juju chang sat down with the director. hey, juju. >> good morning, amy. what's mind blowing it reached that pinnacle in less than a month. i had a fascinating conversation with the director whose for hit brain created this cultural juggernaut. i asked him the one question on everybody's mind -- is there a season two? ♪ "squid game" shattering records now officially the most watched netflix series of all time. in less than a month the dystopian thriller attracting 111 million

untrue things about him and his family. former 1st ladies team has slammed it as grisham attempt to redeem herself after poor john performance and unprofessional behavior in the white house commentator chadwick more thinks that the media is deliberately shifting attention away from more important issues. we do have a new president. i and he's been in office for 9 months, cnn might not realize that. and the country is kind of going to hell in a handbasket. there are plenty of scandals. they could be focusing on with the current man in charge. and instead they are just still obsessed with donald trump, to just go to a laundry list of everything that's gone to hell since joe biden. so these are the things people should be hearing about, right? going to the president's and what he's doing now these kind of had a little childish attacks about, you know, he's a man or he says weird things, which is basically all this book really has on the president. and it might not even be true. and instead of doing what journalism is supposed to do, and that's holding true to power and you know, being a port the states and discussin

john office and his honesty. we've been following the show for migration and bush backs in the for the past years in but because i have been for english grisham inquiry shop at least for about 2 and a half years. and i'm very glad that this you know, the piece of geography. so generally some came out. thank you for making time for us down the street and can me, you're very welcome to the string. please introduce yourself till i wouldn't who you are. what you do. hi, my name is kimberly, cuz i'm a senior policy analyst at the migration policy teacher here at o thinking base in brussel. and we focused on the analysis of migration and asking policies as dary blah here in brussels. i would love all if you get to talk to me about this assignment, this piece of journalism that so many people put together. but i'm going to start with nicole. what was the assignment? what were you trying to prove? so i've been working on this issue for almost 3 years already. so it was like, for me as a journalist, it was quite hard to see on a daily basis when i was in the field that people are pushed back like every day, very often, very brutally out of the europea

john 11:25: "jesus said to her, 'i am the resurrection and the life. and, girl, what is this ensemble? we gotta get you to bergdorf's." grishamn to divulge that minutes before he was to hop out onto the white house lawn, melania made the easter bunny strip. luckily-- and is this true-- luckily, we have some footage. ♪ ♪ ♪ jim, you cut away before we saw the jelly beans! ( laughter ) ( applause ) at least the peeps. the grass! the grass. that's what it is. easter wasn't the only major event full of drama. when the president had a state dinner with the queen of england in 2019, all of his kids and their significant others tried to get on the invite list, including eric's wife, lara; tiffany's boyfriend, michael boulos; and don jr.'s girlfriend, fox news host kimberly guilfoyle. just who you want interacting with the queen. ( as queen elizabeth ) "oh, dear, don jr. you seem to have dropped your tiny baggie of sugar. hmmm. let's put a little bit in my tea. hmmm. whooo! lizzy feels alive!" ( applause ) it's cocaine. ( laughter ) but melania's chief of staff put the kibosh on expanding the guest list, saying, "we are going to look

grisham, we flew with jack back to washington for glenn ceremony. the four of us sat in his cabin, and we talked about would guess that done. we talked about with john had done. we talked about what i had done. all the way back. people would come in with papers to be signed. he said, don't worry, we will get those when we get back to washington. the entire flight. i'll tell you, really, he was a space cadet. it's too bad he could not have lived to see his promise. >> when he first made that announcement, what was your personal reaction? >> oh we were delighted. we were delighted. but, there was a bit of a gulp in there, because he had put a time cap on the deal. i don't think that any of us thought we would be able to make it, whether that was in 1961, and with an eight and a half years. and anyways, delighted, but with a little bit of, well, maybe, the president is a little enthusiastic. >> we finally got up to that point where we were into the apollo, and what was your choice? you wouldn't eke? what was your best bet as to which would be the first flight to make a landing on the moon? >> well, i suppose, we felt that the schedule, as it was laid o