On the first page, this story begins with a break-in with a lawyer shooting the intruder. Bennett Carey calls his friend and fellow lawyer, Jon Soliday, who works with Carey for Senator Grant Tully, to defend him at the trial.
Political intrigue and the murder of a lawyer, Dale Garrison, are added to the plot, along with flashbacks to the murder of a 19 year old girl in 1979 when Grant and Jon were teenagers.
Add the three crimes together, stir in a race for Governor and mix gently. Bennett now becomes the defense lawyer for Jon Soliday in the murder of Dale Garrison.
Jon swears that he is being framed, but by whom? A blackmail note was send to him before Dale’s murder; is the murder from 1979 coming back to haunt them?
David Ellis is so clever – just when I thought I had figured it all out, a person whom I least suspected turned my whole theory upside down. I enjoy finding a writer who can outsmart me.
I highly recommend this book to all adult readers who like to think and exercise their brains. I haven’t given up yet, as I am going to read Ellis’s Eye of the Beholder next and hope to (and try to) not be stumped.
Susie Hamilton
