The Pelican Brief - John Grisham

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper
on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy
D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly
garroted to death... The next day America learns
that two of its Supreme Court justices have been
assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law
student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was
no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant
guess. To the Washington establishment it was
political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a
murder -- a murder intended for her. Going
underground, she finds there is only one person she can
trust -- an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak
hotter than Watergate -- to help her piece together the
deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of
Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a
violent cover-up is being engineered. For somone has
read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at
nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable
crime.