“Wildly entertaining.”—New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling and award-winning author comes a wickedly clever and fast-paced novel of greed, revenge, obsession—and quite possibly the perfect murder.Simon and Vicky couldn’t seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims. A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing’s for sure: absolutely no...

**A USA TODAY BestsellerFrom the author of Look Closer comes a new domestic thriller about betrayal and murder inside one twisted family.“David Ellis is a master of layered, complex thrillers. A fast-paced, twisty, wild ride.” —Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of It’s Not Her**Two siblings. One murder. So many lies.Siblings Allison and Luke have been through a lot together. They’ve always sto...

A finalist for the LA Times Book PrizeA little girl, snatched from her bed in the dead of night...They knew who killed her. They couldn’t prove it. 26 years later, her brother Sammy doesn’t care about proof. He only cares about justice. Now, only his childhood best friend, attorney Jason Kolarich, can save Sammy from a life sentence for killing a killer.To defend Sammy, Jason must do what authorities could not, decades ago—prove th...

Former college football star and criminal defense attorney Jason Kolarich returns in this shocking thriller from the award-winning author of The Hidden Man.Jason Kolarich has spent the past year struggling to recover from the horrific deaths of his wife and baby daughter.On the night of their deaths, Kolarich was at the office, awaiting a call from a confidential informant named Ernesto Ramirez-a call that never came. Kolarich blames himself not on...

" D'une profondeur exceptionnelle, c'est un thriller irrésistible. " The Washington Post" D'une profondeur exceptionnelle, c'est un thriller irrésistible. "The Washington Post" Un thriller intense, d'une rare sophistication. "The New York TimesIssu d'une famille très modeste, Jason Kolarich a réussi à intégrer un des cabinets d'avocats les plus prestigieux d...

Jason Kolarich has fought many cases. This time, he's fighting for his life. Jason Kolarich, defense lawyer, has it all. Until James Drinker walks into his office. Terrified he's being framed for murder, James is desperate for Jason's help. But as Jason investigates his client's story, it becomes clear that nothing about Drinker is what it seems. Unable to stop a serial killer without breaking his attorney-client oath, Jason must find out the truth, before he loses everything.

**A USA TODAY BestsellerBestselling and award-winning author David Ellis delivers a fast-paced, twisty thriller that will surprise readers at every turn.**Leo Balanoff is a crusading attorney with unthinkable skeletons in his closet. He's also a diagnosed pathological liar. When a predatory gangster with a long list of victims is found dead and Leo’s fingerprints show up on the murder weapon, no one believes a word he says in his defense. But he might be the FBI’s ...

Debra-Ann, a small-town colored girl, was born in the rural backwoods of Hush, Mississippi, in 1932. Her father lovingly called her his courageous soul, a nickname she earned for her spiritually inspired compassion for her people, which she held onto even more after the tragic day he was lynched when she was five. After that loss, she was cared for by her grandfather, who loved her deeply; her father's loyal old hound dog, her best friend, Lancelot; and a mother who despised the i...

David Ellis’s Line of Vision won the 2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American AuthorMarty Kalish is a young man suffocating in the heat of an affair with a married woman named Rachel. When Rachel’s husband disappears one night, Marty is one of the first to be questioned. With few likely suspects, the police arrest him for murder. We know Marty was outside their home that night. We know he has a motive. We know he’s guilty of something...

Defense attorney Jason Kolarich is back in another edge-of-your-seat thriller . . . and this time he may find himself in over his head, in more ways than one.James Drinker is a bit of an oddball. A funny-looking, geeky loner, he walks into Jason Kolarich’s office one day with a preemptive concern: two women have recently been murdered, seemingly by the same killer, and Drinker thinks he will be the police’s main suspect. One woman was his ex-girlfriend, he says, an...

From the Edgar Award–winning author of Life Sentence and Line of Vision.In Jury of One, Shelly Trotter, an able and determined lawyer and a children’s rights advocate, is thrust into a world in which she’s completely unschooled—the criminal court. Her client is a 17-year-old accused of killing a policeman, and she begins to suspect that he may have been involved in an undercover operation to entrap dirty cops, though his role in the schem...

Criminal defense attorney Jason Kolarich returns in this shocking new thriller by the Edgar® Award–winning author.A young paralegal is brutally killed. A homeless Iraq war veteran has been caught with the murder weapon and the victim’s belongings—and he can’t remember what happened…Jason Kolarich has been asked by the young man’s aunt to defend him. It seems like a standard insanity defense based on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—until Kolarich realizes tha...