The Client
Released in 1993, The Client was yet another great Grisham read. It detailed the accouint of Mark Sway, an eleven-year-old unlucky enough to stumble onto the drunken suicide of a mob lawyer. Darn it to heck, the soon-to-be-ex-lawyer even tells the kid about a murdered senator and where he was entombed.
As far as secrets go, such mob-caused ones are best left unkown.
But Mark knows, and it's just a matter of time before crooked cops get word to the mob that the kid was in the car with the lawyer. Thus begins the hunt.
The scared-you-know-whatless Mark stumbles into the office of Reggie Love, lawyer with issues of her own.