John Ellsworth

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2014
  • Latest Book:
    December 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Lettie Portman

1 - The District Attorney (Apr-2020)
2 - Justice in Time (Apr-2021)

Michael Gresham

0.5 - Lies She Never Told Me (May-2018)
1 - Michael Gresham // The Lawyer (Jan-2016)
2 - Secrets Girls Keep (Mar-2016)
3 - The Law Partners (Nov-2016)
4 - Carlos the Ant (Oct-2016)
5 - Sakharov the Bear (Jul-2017)
6 - Annie's Verdict (Aug-2017)
7 - Dead Lawyer on Aisle 11 (Oct-2017)
8 - 30 Days of Justis (Feb-2018)
9 - The Fifth Justice (Oct-2018)

Sisters In Law

1 - Frat Party (May-2015)
2 - Hellfire (Jul-2015)

A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller

1 - Thaddeus Murfee, Attorney: Year One (Jun-2016)
2 - The Defendants (Jan-2014)
3 - Beyond a Reasonable Death (Mar-2014)
4 - Attorney at Large (Jun-2014)
5 - Chase, the Bad Baby (Jul-2014)
6 - Defending Turquoise (Sep-2014)
7 - The Mental Case (Dec-2014)
8 - The Girl Who Wrote The New York Times Bestseller (Mar-2015)
9 - The Trial Lawyer (Sep-2015)
10 - The Near Death Experience (Dec-2015)
11 - Flagstaff Station (Nov-2018)
12 - The Crime (Jun-2019)
13 - La Jolla Law (Aug-2019)
14 - The Post Office (Nov-2020)
15 - The Contract Lawyer (Dec-2020)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • The Defendants

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 2

    He snooped around a murder scene. Now he’s in the crosshairs. Thaddeus Murfee is a rookie lawyer with less than 18 months of courtroom experience, and completely unprepared for the complicated case that he is asked to defend. When a local waitress...

  • Beyond a Reasonable Death

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 3

    He brought the mob to justice. Now they want revenge. When the old-time kingpins put a price on his head, Thaddeus Murfee knows his days are numbered. Desperate to break free, he files a lawsuit - but quickly learns that you don't sue the mob an...

  • Attorney at Large

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 4

    He sued and took away the mob's casino. Now they want it back. His estranged sister is charged with murder and Thaddeus Murfee must defend. An employee is arrested for a drug crime and he must defend. Topping it all off, Thaddeus himself is charged w...

  • Chase, the Bad Baby

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 5

    Can one man take down a corrupt hospital and insurance company? Childbirth is hard enough under even the best circumstances. But when baby Chase suffers a catastrophic brain injury at birth, his parents are drawn into a hellish whirlwind of medical ...

  • Defending Turquoise

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 6

    What happens if you do all the right things for all the wrong reasons? The dead body found in Flagstaff is not hard to identify - the District Attorney had been a well known figure. His wife admits that she pulled the trigger, but her attorney Thad...

  • The Mental Case

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 7

    The Mental Case is a novel about law firm money and a law firm death. And about a missing child and a parent's frantic search. Join Thaddeus Murfee, back in Chicago and around the world, in his strangest case yet -- a man whose plastic character chan...

  • Unspeakable Prayers

    Even though he escaped, he was never truly free. In occupied Poland, there are whispers of a terrifying darkness in the northern forests. When a young Lodzi Ashstein learns the horrifying truth about the Treblinka extermination camp, he is kidnappe...

  • The Girl Who Wrote The New York Times Bestseller

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 8

    Attorney Thaddeus Murfee is skyjacked to Moscow. Next to him on the plane is Angelina Sosa, a brash 20-something with a degree in journalism from the esteemed University of Chicago. Angelina decides to write a New York Times best-seller based on...

  • Frat Party

    Sisters In Law - 1

    Lawyer Christine Susmann isn’t scared of a fight.The decorated Iraq veteran has faced the worst humanity has to offer; her courtroom battles seem almost tame in comparison. That is until a case lands on her desk that isn’t like the others. Photos...



  • Hellfire

    Sisters In Law - 2

    A Syrian wedding party is incinerated by a Hellfire missile fired from an American drone. Many are killed, but one survivor turns to an American lawyer for help in bringing the responsible parties to justice. The survivor is the bride-to-be and she i...

  • The Trial Lawyer

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 9

    Killen Erwin slumps on the other side of the desk, silently waiting for his longtime friend to respond. It’s not a question of whether Thaddeus wants to help, but whether he can. Thad barely survived last week’s savage attack, and for the first t...

  • The Near Death Experience

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 10

    Is there life after death? Is it even possible to know for sure? Dr. Emerick Sewell's book, a sensational account of his near death experience, had taken the world by storm when it was released. But when one of his readers overdosed on pills in ...

  • Michael Gresham // The Lawyer

    Michael Gresham - 1

    FOUND NOT GUILTY BUT KILLS AGAIN? AND YOU GOT HIM OFF?Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney with a brother who won’t take his meds, an ex-wife who wants him to finance her fertility costs, and a client accused of murdering the wife of a judge. As ...

  • Secrets Girls Keep

    Michael Gresham - 2

    FROM USA TODAY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR JOHN ELLSWORTHNote: This book is about lawyers, police, and crime. It contains descriptions of violent crimes. It contains courtroom scenes that delve into these same incidents, which some may find offensive. This b...

  • Thaddeus Murfee, Attorney: Year One

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 1

    From Book 1: What if your boss wanted you to spy...on the U.S. government?

    There is no job description and the job isn't advertised anywhere, not even on the Job Board at Georgetown Law. But Thaddeus Murfee just graduated from law school and h...

  • Carlos the Ant

    Michael Gresham - 4

    FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN ELLSWORTHStart With a Bank Robber and a Legal ThrillerCarlos has a sick daughter and needs money. He's also an upstanding citizen who pays his taxes, puts in his forty hours, doesn't drink and carouse, and loves...

  • The Law Partners

    Michael Gresham - 3

    Arrested for a murder you didn't commit? Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney who defends his clients with an iron will. They know that when he takes their case, they are probably going to leave the courthouse a free man or free woman. But what hap...

  • Jane Doe 235

    Something is wrong with Heidi. She regains consciousness in a hospital with no memory of who she is or how she got there. A man claiming to be her husband--Cooper--arrives at her bedside. He's relieved and upset and caring all at once. She begins to ...

  • Sakharov the Bear

    Michael Gresham - 5

    A Legal Thriller - in a Russian Courtroom Drama Two CIA field operators obtain a bill of lading from an arms supplier in Moscow. Tracing the origin and destination of the weapons there is reason to believe a massive arms shipment has come into th...



  • Annie's Verdict

    Michael Gresham - 6

    Attorney Michael Gresham has a new go-to person. Her name is Annie, and she's 12.

    Annie is a savant. She can look at you and, like her idol, Sherlock Holmes, tell you where you're from, whether or not you're happily married, and where you we...

  • Dead Lawyer on Aisle 11

    Michael Gresham - 7

    Someone is killing off lawyers in the US Attorney's office.

    Michael Gresham is assigned to prosecuting the case against the at-large killer. When Michael's team has tried everything else to find the killer, they turn to 12-year old Annie Gre...

  • 30 Days of Justis

    Michael Gresham - 8

    She's a daughter he doesn't know he has. Until she calls him...from death row.

    From USA Today best-selling author John Ellsworth comes another book so thrilling the pages all but turn themselves. A stand-alone novel.

    Michael Gresham me...

  • Lies She Never Told Me

    Michael Gresham - 0.5

    Would you kill the man your beloved grandmother wants dead?

    Lies She Never Told Me is the story of Michael Gresham's heritage, beginning with his father's father. The book features mob wars in 1920s' Chicago; World War II invasions and POW ...

  • The Fifth Justice

    Michael Gresham - 9

    Sometimes a victim decides to stop being a victim. Michael Gresham and Marcel, his investigator, go on the hunt for a client's missing wife. She has been nominated to the U.S. District Court, and now she can't be found. She's an outstanding lawyer,...

  • Flagstaff Station

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 11

    Climb aboard the justice train and let Thaddeus keep you up all night in Flagstaff Station An FBI chase through the streets of Phoenix leads to an epic firefight and the fatal shooting of an important member of the Vittini mob. As a result, Speci...

  • The Point of Light

    May 1940 - Paris. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Claire hears the devastating news: the German army has invaded her homeland, and her beloved Paris has fallen. Within months, her life is turned upside-down. She takes in an orphaned Jewish ...

  • The Crime

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 12

    Thaddeus Murfee is back in this twisted tale of two trials, mother and daughter, each claiming to have shot father... He couldn't keep his hands off his stepdaughter. The question becomes, who shot him? The mother or the stepdaughter? Or maybe it...

  • La Jolla Law

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 13

    A California beach town, a murder at a Presidential reception, a detective who finds herself in hot water for sexual harassment... Add to the mix a gifted boy band traveling cross-country and a tech billionaire who functions on cocaine with a pla...

  • No Trivial Pursuit

    No Trivial Pursuit. Not When It's Your Own Daughter Missing. A front-page murder is assigned to LAPD Detective Harley Ellis and her partner. Hollywood studio head Ira Spielman has been murdered. His widow says he had no enemies. Except one, says Harl...



  • The District Attorney

    Lettie Portman - 1

    When the legal system fails to convict an abuser, what do you do?Meet Assistant District Attorney Lettie Portman, a sex crimes prosecutor whose past demands justice. When a fourteen-year-old girl is savagely attacked by her mother's live-in boyfriend...

  • The Post Office

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 14

    This is the story of Rachel, a young girl who needs to die.Rachel is so sick and in constant pain. All medical help tried and failed, so she decides to take her own life--legally. But under the law, she isn't old enough to get doctor-assisted end of ...

  • The Contract Lawyer

    A Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller - 15

    He went into the jungle to find his family. He came back out to find himself...Thaddeus Murfee is an attorney in San Diego whose nephew is kidnapped to South America. The traffickers didn't know all the rules, but he did.This is Thaddeus at his best,...

  • Justice in Time

    Lettie Portman - 2

    A Legal Thriller With Romance by USA TODAY Bestseller John EllsworthAssistant District Attorney Lettie Portman charges a U.S. Senator with the murder of his wife. The wife was found dead sitting in her Mercedes with a garden house from the exhaust in...

  • The Nigerian Prince

     Commander Bowditch warned the Pleasant Manor Home about his mother. They didn't listen.They allowed 84-year-old Ethel Bowditch Internet access. Ten minutes after going online, she had an email address set up. No email makes for lonely, lonely, ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Ellsworth has published 34 books.

John Ellsworth does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Nigerian Prince, was published in December 2021.

The first book by John Ellsworth, The Defendants, was published in January 2014.

Yes. John Ellsworth has 4 series.
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