David Ellis

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2001
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Jason Kolarich

1 - The Hidden Man (Sep-2009)
2 - Breach of Trust (Feb-2011)
3 - The Wrong Man (Jun-2012)
4 - The Last Alibi (Aug-2013)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • Line of Vision

    Marty Kalish is an investment banker in love with a married woman … until her husband is murdered, and Marty’s accused. After all, he was at the scene of a crime, he had a moticve, and he manipulated the evidence to hide his guilt. He’s even co...

  • Life Sentence

    In Life Sentence, Ellis brings us a second legal thriller, again evocatively set in an unnamed Chicago, in a Byzantine world of big-city politics full of payback and promise, ambition and disgrace. Jon Soliday is legal counsel to a powerful politicia...

  • Jury of One

    Children’s rights advocate Shelly Trotter is out of her depth in criminal court, defending a sixteen-year-old accused of a killing a cop. She took the case because she has a connection to the kid dating back to his troubled younger days, when the c...

  • In the Company of Liars

    In the Company of Liars is that rare animal - a truly original thriller, strikingly fresh and unpredictable. Told chronologically in reverse, from its enigmatic end to its brilliant beginning, it's centered around a woman on trial for murder - Alliso...

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Edgar Award-winner David Ellis shifts gears to deliver a stunning new thriller where every character has a secret-and every secret has a price. David Ellis's In the Company of Liars is an audaciously inventive thriller. In a David Ellis novel, no...

  • The Hidden Man

    Jason Kolarich - 1

    Jason Kolarich is a midwestern Everyman with a lineman's build and an easy smart-ass remark. He's a young, intelligent maverick, but he's also struggling with an overwhelming emotional burden -- one that threatens to unravel his own life, and possibl...

  • Breach of Trust

    Jason Kolarich - 2

    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 h...

  • The Wrong Man

    Jason Kolarich - 3

    When Jason Kolarich accepts the case of a homeless Iraq War veteran accused of murdering a young paralegal, his course seems clear: to mount an insanity defense for a man suffering so badly from post-traumatic stress disorder that he has no real memo...

  • The Last Alibi

    Jason Kolarich - 4

    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 Jas...



  • The Lion That Lions Fear

    Kevin Hunter is a six-year-old Black child transplanted from the streets of Baltimore to the streets of Philadelphia. Raised by a drug-addicted mother and menaced by her murderous pimp, he manages to escape the horrors of his childhood to reach the p...

  • Dark Horse & Other Stories

    Four tales of the unsuspecting....and the devilish, the Beast of our nightmares, guests in all these stories, but in rather different guises.Take a seat in the parlour and listen to the remarkable story of a man who, in attempting to escape from a gr...

  • Look Closer

    “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 m...

  • Resolution

    Four Tales of the Unpredictable, born at different times and in different places, brought together in one volume. Much like two strangers striking up a conversation at a bar, it might take a while for these tales to reveal their common threads, but t...

  • The Best Lies

    A USA Today Bestseller!Bestselling and award-winning author David Ellis delivers a fast-paced, twisty thriller that will surprise readers at every turn.Leo Balanoff is a diagnosed pathological liar with unthinkable skeletons in his family's closet. H...

Award-Winning Books by David Ellis

Line of Vision
2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- First Novel


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David Ellis has published 14 books.

David Ellis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Best Lies, was published in July 2024.

The first book by David Ellis, Line of Vision, was published in February 2001.

Yes. David Ellis has 1 series.
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