Life Sentence
Written by David Ellis
Narrated by Dick Hill
4/5
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About this audiobook
Jon Soliday is legal counsel to a powerful politician - also his childhood best friend - who is running for governor. The two have shared political success and undying loyalty. They also share a dark secret from the summer of 1979: a party that resulted in the death of a teenage girl. Soliday was implicated, but through his friend's political connections, escaped legal trouble.
Soliday remembers little from that night, but carries an uncertain guilt he can't shake. Now, as the players from 1979 fall prey to an unknown killer, Soliday himself is accused of murder. And as the puzzle unfolds, the people he most suspects are those he has entrusted with his defense - his ambitious defense attorney and his oldest friend.
A man's past, both what he remembers and what he fears, has never felt so crushing - and may well leave him without a future.
David Ellis
David Ellis’s previous novels include In the Company of Liars, Jury of One, Life Sentence, and Line of Vision, for which he won an Edgar Award. An attorney from Chicago, he serves as Counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoy legal stories and good plot twists. The entire book had a stead pace but the very end felt rushed. would give this a 3.5 star review but I can't give a 1/2 star so I've left my review at 4.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ellis is one of my favorite authors, even though he did the unthinkable by teaming up with James Patterson in recent years. I realized that I had a couple of his earliest novels that I had not yet read including this one. It look some hunting but I'm so glad I got my hands on this one. If you love conspiracy theories, politics and legal battles then this book is for you! Jon Soliday, is THE attorney for the Democratic political party in Chicago and the top advisor to his childhood best friend, Grant Tully, who is a senator running for Governor. Things are heating up in the race and suddenly Soliday is accused of murdering a fellow attorney and the most likely alternate suspect is a name from the past. When they were teenagers Soliday and Tully went to a party in which a girl ended up dead and Soliday was initially the main suspect but there was not sufficient evidence to convict. The other key witness that helped clear Soliday back then now looks like he's setting him up for this murder. Why and how to prove it without hurting the Senator's chances of winning the election. Ellis's claim to fame is that he was the prosecutor in the Rod Blagojevich trial. Interestingly, this book was written long before that happened. Now days he's an Illinois Appellate Judge. But all of this is to say - he knows his courtroom drama! Ellis has a new book that just came out this week with JP - but do yourself a favor and find out how great an author he was solo.