Eye of the Beholder

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
July 2007

Renowned attorney Paul Riley has built a lucrative career based on his famous prosecution of Terry Burgos, a serial killer who followed the lyrics of a violent song to gruesomely murder six girls. Now, fifteen years later, the police are confronted with a new series of murders and mutilations. Riley is the first to realize that the two cases are connected-and that the killer seems to be willing to do anything to keep him involved. As the murderer's list of victims becomes less random and more personal, Riley finds himself at the center of a police task force assigned to catch the murderer-as both an investigator and a suspect.

 

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In the Company of Liars

IN THE COMPANY OF LIARS
April 2005

A daring new mystery written in reverse chronology-read the "ending" and then go back, day by day, to the shocking beginning!

A woman accused of murder is trapped in a torturous psychological maze between a zealous FBI and loyalty to her family. Was her death suicide or murder-or neither?

 

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Jury of One

JURY OF ONE
March 2004

Shelly Trotter, the daughter of the state's governor and a children's-rights advocate, is thrust into a world in which she's completely unschooled-the criminal court. The defendant is a seventeen-year-old former client who is accused of killing a cop. Shelly soon learns that this boy was caught in the middle of an undercover operation to trap corrupt officers. But what was his role in the sting? The target or the bait? And what does the prosecution really have against him?

Then comes the shocker: The kid says he is the son she gave up in a private adoption kept hush-hush by her father, who had political ambitions beyond their small town. As the evidence mounts, Shelly finds that nothing—not legal ethics, not her father's reelection campaign—will stop her from keeping her son off death row—for with this client, she is truly a jury of one.

 

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Life Sentence

LIFE SENTENCE
February 2003

Jon Soliday is the chief aide to a candidate for Governor—also his lifelong friend. They share a dark secret from long ago, a murky, drunken incident that led to a young woman's death. When a prominent attorney linked to that episode is murdered, Jon stands accused. To defend himself, he must unearth the truth about that hidden scandal in the heat of the Governor's race, and the suspects include both leading candidates for the office—including his closest friend.

 

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Line of Vision

LINE OF VISION

David Ellis' Line of Vision won the 2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author.

Marty Kalish has been accused of murdering his lover's husband. He had a motive. He was at the scene of the crime. He manipulated evidence to hide his guilt. He even confessed. But that's not the end of the story. That's only the beginning.

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