Jury of One

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Summary: A Sensational Read - Guaranteed!!!
Review: This was my first experience with a David Ellis novel and it left me enthralled. The story is complex and complicated and takes a while to gather steam, but once all the elements have been brought to bear it is an absolute can not put it down read.
It is hard to tell too much about the story without giving away some of the many twists and turns in the plot. The basic story line is that a young woman lawyer who is a children's rights advocate finds herself representing a former client who is charged with the murder of a police officer. The case seems relatively straight forward from the prosecutions's point of view and difficult to defend. But in this tale, things are seldom what they seem. The characters are well drawn and the dialogue is written so well you can hear the voices. Couple that with an outstanding plot and you have a hard to beat combination.
David Ellis has written a legal thriller that is all of that and a bit more.

Rating:
Summary: kept me riveted
Review: What I liked best about the book are the many plot turns. Also, it is rare that an author uses the device -- used very very well here -- of looking at the same event in light of one or more different facts and creating an entirely different scenario. That kind of reinterpretation is central to this book and makes it fascinating, because you think you know something and then the implications of the few facts are resifted into another scenario.