David Ellis
1) Escape
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling detective Billy Harney of The Black Book is chasing down a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist while a young girl's life hangs in the balance. As Chicago PD's special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he's investigating is down to his last twenty million. He's also being held in jail. For now. Billy's unit is called in when an escape...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with...
3) Unsolved
Author
Series
Invisible volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"FBI Agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests. But a shocking new case - unfolding across the country - has left her utterly baffled. The victims all appear to have died by accident and have seemingly nothing in common. But this many deaths can't be coincidence. And the killer is somehow one step ahead of every move Dockery...
Author
Language
English
Description
"No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multi-million-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty, and rumored to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance. Detective Jenna Murphy used to consider herself a local, but she hasn't been...
6) Mistress
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone...
7) Invisible
Author
Series
Invisible volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On leave from her FBI researcher career, Emmy Dockery tries to convince her boyfriend that hundreds of unsolved cases are linked to a single perpetrator.
"Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even...
Author
Series
Jason Kolarich novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jason Kolarich is a young, intelligent, successful lawyer struggling with overwhelming motion burdens that threaten to unravel his life. However, when a long-estranged friend resurfaces needing help, Jason tries to salve old wounds realizing that unsettling events from the past need to be exposed in order to crack not only this case but a connected, decades-old cold case.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
394 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having built a successful career based on his famous prosecution of a serial killer fifteen years earlier, attorney Paul Riley realizes that his past case has eerie ties to a new series of murders and that the killer has an agenda aimed specifically at Paul himself.
11) Breach of trust
Author
Series
Jason Kolarich novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
420 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Blaming himself for the deaths of his wife, his infant daughter, and an informant a year earlier, vigilante Jason Kolarich is forced by the FBI to bring down the organization of a corrupt governor of Illinois, a case that reveals devastating truths abouthis family's deaths.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thriller told in reverse centers on a woman who is undergoing a murder trial overseen by a prosecutor who is strongly pursuing a death penalty and an FBI agent who would force the defendant to betray her family.
13) Jury of one
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
p. (large print) cm.
Language
English
14) Look closer
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling and award-winning author comes a wickedly clever and fast-paced novel of greed, revenge, obsession-and quite possibly the perfect murder"--
15) The wrong man
Author
Series
Jason Kolarich novels volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
389 p.
Language
English
Description
When a homeless Iraq War veteran with severe post-traumatic stress disorder is arrested for murder, Jason Kolarich agrees to take the case and discovers that the victim had stumbled on a terrorist conspiracy with ties to corporate America.
16) The red book
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Launching an investigation of his own when his instincts tell him that more is behind a political shooting on Chicago's west side, SOS Detective Billy Harney uncovers a spate of murders connected to his troubled past.