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David Ellis


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January 01, 1967

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David Ellis is a lawyer and the Edgar Allan Poe Award winner for Best First Novel for Line of Vision. Ellis attended Northwestern Law School and began his legal career in private practice in Chicago in 1993. He served as the House Prosecutor who tried and convicted Illinois Governor Blagojevich in the Impeachment Trial before the Illinois Senate. He was elected to the Illinois Appellate Court in 2014 and took office December 1, 2014. Ellis currently lives outside Chicago with his wife and three children.

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In The Company Of Liars

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Jury of One

3.96 avg rating — 748 ratings — published 2004 — 22 editions
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Life Sentence

3.91 avg rating — 559 ratings — published 2003 — 27 editions
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“the best lies are the ones closest to the truth.”
David Ellis, Look Closer

“It’s a lot easier to fool someone than to convince someone they’ve been fooled.”
David Ellis, Look Closer

“Why does the word “queue” have not only four consecutive silent letters, which is bad enough, but also the same ones repeated? What, they weren’t silent enough the first time through?”
David Ellis, Look Closer

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