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John Ellsworth

Author of The Lawyer

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Series

Works by John Ellsworth

The Lawyer (2016) 63 copies
The Defendants (2014) 60 copies
Defending Turquoise (2014) 39 copies
30 Days of Justis (2017) 32 copies
Beyond a Reasonable Death (2014) 31 copies
Unspeakable Prayers (2015) 28 copies
The Near Death Experience (2015) 25 copies
Attorney at Large (2014) 23 copies
The Trial Lawyer (2015) 17 copies
Chase, the Bad Baby (2014) 17 copies
Thaddeus Murfee (2016) 16 copies
The Mental Case (2014) 14 copies
Secrets Girls Keep (2016) 13 copies
Frat Party (2015) 10 copies
The Law Partners (2016) 7 copies
Dead Lawyer on Aisle 11 (2017) 6 copies
Carlos the Ant (2016) 5 copies
Sakharov the Bear (2017) 5 copies
Annie's Verdict (2017) 4 copies
Hellfire (2018) 2 copies

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Could not put it down

Intelligent dialog, fully 3-D characters, from the highest judges to abused foster children, this is an excellent diagram for how Justice is for Just Us; the privileged white male. I cried the whole last chapter of this book. True reflections of human frailty shine throughout this novel, dispelling the notion of "Good guys vs Bad guys." All humans are somewhere in between. "A Monster Calls."
 
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ourBooksLuvUs | Aug 20, 2023 |
I feel like I know this author's name but whether it is because I've read something else by him or just because I've seen it on the cover of this book, I can't say. The characters from this book did not seem familiar to me as I read.

The plot took many twists and turns--most of which I didn't predict. I'm still trying to sort out exactly how everything played out.

Perhaps the significance of Arnie's handcuffs would make more sense to me if I'd read the first book in the series. I'm not quite sure why Esme and Michael react to it as they do at the end of this book.

In the end, I am a bit disappointed by Michael Gresham's character. I feel like he started out abiding by the code of conduct that lawyers are supposed to and by the end of this book, I feel like he is willing to overlook things that a lawyer probably shouldn't.
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JenniferRobb | Jul 25, 2020 |
The story itself was good if you like stories about WWII resistance etc. but the writing style was just so, so in my opinion.
I was slow to get into this book r/t the writing style but eventually the story itself held me to the finish.
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KarenHerndon | Sep 11, 2019 |
I got this book because I thought the premiss sounded interesting. A successful lawyer was defending a doctor for the death of a woman. The doctor had had a near death experience and wrote a best seller about what happened. A wealthy woman, having read his book, took a bunch of pills in order to see her dead husband. While the woman was "brain dead", but being kept alive by her relatives so that they could deplete her bank account illegally, the doctor pulled the plug on the lady at the request of her spirit. Well, there were just too many things going on. The lawyer's wife was dying from cancer, but she was more worried about her children, husband, horses, and finding a new wife for her husband. In the meantime, the lawyer was trying to get back the millions he paid in ransom to a Chicago gangster who since fled to Italy, for the abduction of one of the lawyer's children. This abduction apparently happened in an earlier book. The mobster, finding out that the lawyer is after him, decides to try to kill the lawyer and his family. All this stuff gets in the way of the court room drama, which was anything but dramatic. The characters were all very cliche and not sympathetic at all. It took me weeks to read it. Every night when I laid down to read it, I started playing iPad games, reading Huff News, then I would fall asleep after finally reading a page and a half. I hate writing bad reviews, but I just did not care for it. But, I found very few grammatical errors.… (more)
 
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StaceyN | Jul 31, 2016 |

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