Bugün ise Paul Riley şehirde en cok ragbet goren avukattır. Aynı şarkı sözlerinden ilham alınmışa ve Terry Burgos’un işlediği cinayetlere benzeyen bir dizi korkunç cinayetin ardından Riley polis tarafından çağrılır. Kısa zamanda bütün kurbanların Mansbury Katliamı ile ilişkili olduğu ortaya çıkar. İlk katliam ile ilişkili olan tanıklar, gazeteciler vb. gaddarca öldürülmektedir. Katil bir kopyacı mı yoksa gerçeğin üzerini örtmeye çalışan biri mi? Paul Riley katili yakalamaya çalışırken daha önce yanlış adamı idama gönderdiği ihtimali ile yüzleşmek zorundadır. Ve Terry Burgos’un, idam edilmesinden hemen önce söylediği son sözleri onu rahat bırakmaz.: “Başkaları da var.”

Satılan hakları: İspanya (Ediciones B), Almanya (Heyne), Hollanda (The House of Books), ABD – Kanada (Putnam).

David Ellis won the 2002 Edgar Award for Best First Novel with his debut novel of suspense, LINE OF VISION.  Since then he has gone from strength to strength with his subsequent books, LIFE SENTENCE (2003), JURY OF ONE (2004), and most recently IN THE COMPANY OF LIARS (2005).  Formerly an attorney in private practice in Chicago, he has moved into politics as Chief Counsel to the Illinois Senate Majority leader in Springfield, Illinois.

From The Critics

Marilyn Stasio - The New York Times

Ellis, a former partner in a Chicago law firm, isn't squeamish about laying out the gory details in the initial massacre of six young women in 1989 or the copycat atrocities to follow. But the carnage is only the grabber for what is actually a very tricky legal mystery, and Riley, who prosecuted "the most famous serial killer our city has ever seen" when he was a raw youth, doesn't really hit his stride until he walks down those mean corridors that lead to the courtroom.

Publishers Weekly

Some books aren't natural fits for audio. Edgar-winner Ellis's new novel, for example, has a complex plot that hops back and forth between the arrest, conviction and execution of serial killer Terry Burgos in 1989 and 16 years later when Burgos's prosecutor, Paul Riley, is drawn into the investigation of a very similar series of murders, involving many of the same characters. Complicating things even more, the contemporary sections jump from Riley's point of view to that of the demented new killer. Ellis uses chapter breaks, posted dates, italics and a shift from present tense narration to past tense for 1989, efforts that clarify matters in print but are a bit subtle for audio. Even an accomplished and inventive narrator like Dick Hill can only do so much-a pause before announcing a time shift, the use of a distinctive accent for the killer-to keep listener confusion to a minimum. But there's not much any reader could do with a key ingredient of the novel-the nonsense messages left at the crime scenes that contain a coded text that is near-impossible to distinguish by ear. Hill handles the dramatic sequences and thriller elements effortlessly and if one is willing to overlook several perplexing time-warped moments and the impossibility of deciphering the clues before Riley explains them, this audio provides a fair amount of entertainment. Simultaneous release with the Putnam hardcover (Reviews, May 21) (July)

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Review from the Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago attorney David Ellis follows up last year's intriguing In the Company of Liars with an even better book that will only improve his growing reputation. Eye of the Beholder, a powerful novel about sex, murder and a quest for the truth, is one of the standout books of the summer.
Attorney Paul Riley gained fame by convicting a killer for the murders of six women, crimes for which the man was executed. Now it's years later and Riley has gotten rich in private practice. All is well until a killer starts duplicating the earlier murders. A desperate Riley must discover whether this is the work of a copycat, or if he sent the wrong man to his death.

Too many so-called legal thrillers are really just lackluster mysteries, with little in the way of pacing or tension. Eye of the Beholder, however, is a genuine page-turner, powered by winning characters and a wonderfully serpentine plot.

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