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Title: Life Sentence by David Ellis ISBN: 0399149791 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 24 February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: life sentence
Comment: Excellent well woven plot twists and suspense. A real page turner. David Ellis has jumped to the top of my list of favorite suspense authors.
Rating: 5
Summary: exciting legal thriller
Comment: Jon Soliday serves as legal counsel to state Senator Grant Tully, who is running for governor in which the polls indicate his employer trailing against Langdon Trotter. However, Jon uncovers that Trotter submitted an invalid petition that, if revealed, would force the front runner out of the contest. Shockingly Tully tells Jon to not go public with the information because he says he fears a public backlash. Instead he prefers Jon let lawyer Dale Garrison use the fake petition to blackmail Trotter into throwing the race.
Surprisingly, Jon receives an anonymous blackmail note that demands he pays $250,000 to keep quiet about "the secret that nobody knows". He wonders if someone knows about the incident in 1979 when he had sex with a woman who died not long afterward. Still Jon goes about his job and though he detests the deceitfulness, he meets with Garrison anyway. Not long after their discussion, someone kills Garrison leaving Jon as the prime suspect as the last known person to have seen the victim and he wondering about the link back to his previous worst nightmare from two decades ago.
LIFE SENTENCE is an exciting legal thriller that provides so many twists and turns that readers will read in one sitting. The story line enables the audience to observe the relativity of information based on a person's LINE OF VISION as reasonably intelligent individuals interpret facts to fit their need and theory of the crime. The key charcaters including Jon are developed enough to enhance the who-done-it as it is the interpretation not just the facts that will make David Ellis' second legal thriller a fan favorite.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW, FANTASTIC LEGAL THRILLER
Comment: Ellis' second novel is better than his first, and that was good. The novel is narrated by Jon Soliday, a longtime friend and now employee of Senator Grant Tully, son of retired Senator Tully. Twenty years ago in 1979, when he and Grant Tully were kids, they along with other juveniles (young men) were involved in a situation where a woman ended up dead.
Although Jon never had any specific recollection of what happened that night (drugs,sex,rock and roll), he becomes the focus of the investigation into the death of Gina Mason. Lawyers are hired, favors are called in, stories are constructed, magic is worked and the investigation into the death is closed. However, Jon Soliday never forgets and although he believes that he could not have been involved in her murder, there is so much about that night that he does not remember.
Present day, Soliday is helping Senator Grant Tully with his campaign bid for state governor. During the course of the campaign, Soliday is framed for the murder of another Tully aid. Soliday is arrested, charged and faces trial. He is represented by Bennett Carey who is a friend of sorts but much more. At the conclusion of the "trial" everyone comes out a loser.
It is hard to say more without spoiling this utterly magnificant, detailed and finely constructed piece of fiction. The surprises are endless, the writing is tight, the plot is well thought out and everything flows together in such a way that all the reader can say at the end is WOW!!!
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Title: Line of Vision by David Ellis ISBN: 0425183769 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Derailed by James Siegel ISBN: 0446531588 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Lost Light by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316154601 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Shutter Island : A Novel by Dennis Lehane ISBN: 0688163173 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316153915 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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