David Ellis Books in Order

Executive Marty Kalish is having an affair with a married woman when her husband disappears and Marty is arrested for murder. Told entirely from Marty’s point of view, the case forces readers to decide how much of his cool, careful story they are willing to believe.

Political lawyer Jon Soliday serves as chief counsel to his childhood friend, now a rising state senator, when a local attorney is murdered and Jon becomes the prime suspect. To clear his name, he must confront a buried scandal from a deadly night in 1979.

Children’s-rights attorney Shelly Trotter is stunned when a teenage former client is charged with killing a police officer—and even more when he claims to be the son she secretly gave up for adoption. Defending him pits her against corrupt cops and her own powerful father.

Allison Pagone, a novelist and former public defender, stands accused of murdering her high-powered lover. Told in reverse, the story backs up from her apparent death to reveal prosecutors, family members, and shadowy players whose shifting lies make the truth almost impossible to pin down.

Fifteen years after prosecutor Paul Riley sent a serial killer to death row, new murders appear to mimic the old case in chilling detail. As cryptic notes arrive and victims grow closer to home, Riley is forced to question what really happened the first time.

Years after his childhood friend’s little sister was abducted, attorney Jason Kolarich is hired to defend that friend, now charged with killing the suspected kidnapper. Backed by a mysterious benefactor with his own agenda, Jason must solve both the old crime and the new one.

Haunted by the deaths of his wife, daughter, and an informant he pushed to testify, Jason Kolarich digs into the witness’s murder and stumbles into a web of state-house corruption. Forced to work undercover for the FBI, he edges ever closer to a dangerous governor.

Four friends leave their strained marriages behind for a lavish long weekend in Monte Carlo, only to wake on a yacht surrounded by police. Accused of murdering a powerful leader, they are thrust into a harsh foreign prison and a conspiracy they barely understand.

Jason Kolarich takes on what looks like an unwinnable case: a homeless Iraq war veteran with severe trauma accused of murdering a young paralegal. The deeper Jason investigates, the more it appears his client was framed as part of a much larger plot.

Ben Casper is a hyperactive Washington reporter whose mind never stops racing with movie trivia and political facts. When the woman he secretly loves falls from her balcony, Ben refuses to accept suicide and digs into a conspiracy that quickly makes him a target.

Defense attorney Jason Kolarich is approached by awkward James Drinker, who swears he is being set up to take the fall for two brutal murders. As more women die and Jason keeps defending him, evidence begins to point toward a terrifying frame-up of Jason himself.

FBI analyst Emmy Dockery is convinced a string of house fires and accidental deaths are the work of one killer, including the blaze that killed her sister. With only her ex, Harrison Books Bookman, willing to listen, she hunts a murderer no one else believes exists.

In the Hamptons, former NYPD detective Jenna Murphy returns to a seaside town scarred by an infamous mansion where multiple murders occurred. When a Hollywood power broker and his lover are found dead there, Jenna must confront both the house’s history and her own buried past.

After three people are gunned down in a Chicago apartment, detective Billy Harney barely survives and wakes with no memory of the night. Accused of murder, he must trace the missing black book tied to a secret brothel and clear his own name.

Now back inside the Bureau, Emmy Dockery tracks a pattern in deaths that all look accidental just as someone begins leaking FBI secrets. While her fiancé Books investigates whether she is the mole, Emmy races to prove a terrifying new killer is real.

Still branded a troublemaker after exposing police corruption, Chicago detective Billy Harney joins an elite task force investigating a drive-by shooting that kills a child. As political pressure mounts, Billy uncovers a deeper conspiracy that reaches into his own past.

Chicago detective Billy Harney is called in when a deadly jailbreak frees a billionaire crime boss and a notorious killer. As taunting clues appear and a kidnapped girl’s life is put on the line, Billy races to stop a game designed just for him.

On the surface, Simon and Vicky are a successful Chicago couple with a comfortable marriage. When a wealthy socialite is found dead and a huge trust fund comes due, their lies, grudges, and secret affairs collide in a carefully planned game of revenge.

Marcie Bowers is a small-town lawyer and mother whose husband David becomes a media hero after rescuing a stranger from a river. His sudden fame draws dangerous figures out of the shadows, forcing Marcie to question whether she married a good man or a hidden killer.

Chicago attorney Leo Balanoff is a diagnosed pathological liar whose past is full of dangerous secrets. When a predatory gangster is killed and Leo’s fingerprints turn up on the gun, the FBI pushes him into an undercover sting that could destroy what is left of his life.