Legal Thriller: Michael Gresham: Secrets Girls Keep: A Courtroom Drama (Michael Gresham Legal Thriller Series Book 2) (23 page)
Authors: John Ellsworth
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HADDEUS MURFEE SERIES
The Girl Who Wrote The New York Times Bestseller
The Trial Lawyer (A Small Death)
SISTERS IN LAW SERIES
Frat Party: Sisters In Law
(June 2015)
Hellfire: Sisters In Law
(July 2015)
MICHAEL GRESHAM SERIES
J
ohn Ellsworth practiced
law while based in Chicago.
For thirty years John defended criminal clients across the United States. He has defended cases ranging from shoplifting to First Degree Murder to RICO to Tax Evasion, and has gone to jury trial on hundreds. His first book,
The Defendants
, was published in January, 2014. John is presently at work on his fourteenth legal thriller, which, it is hoped, will be published before May, 2016.
Reception to John’s books has been phenomenal; more than 500,000 have been downloaded in 24 months. All are Amazon best-sellers.
John Ellsworth lives in Arizona in the mountains and in California on the beach. He has two dogs that ignore him and worship his wife.
F
irst off
, thanks to Terry Cheryl Hopton, my editor, for an incredible job this time out. She makes me a better writer and for that I owe a huge debt of gratitude. Thank you, Cheryl.
Thanks to the Chicago Police Department and CSI teams for their knowledge, willingness to help, and cooperation. There is no greater help to a writer than the source itself.
Thanks to the physicians and medical examiners who guided me in the medical aspects of death by garroting and interruption of carotid blood flow, especially Robert Corish, M.D., and Roger Torres, M.D.
Special thanks to my wife, Debra Ellsworth, for her reading, comments, re-reading and an endless supply of coffee while the fingers are flying and the keyboard is melting down.
Special thanks to my daughter Adriane for all the pictures and videos of our grandchildren and to her husband John for his ministry and love. It all keeps me going.
Special thanks to my daughter RJ for her
Deadwood
album and the incredible lead vocals that had me listening again and again while these words met the page.
To all my incredible readers and those who reach out to me with their kindness and comments, thank you, especially.
It is my hope you all enjoy this book.
I loved writing it.
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— John Ellsworth (March 2016)
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T
his book
, like all my books, is purely fictional. Any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.
I
make
my living writing books and I’m very happy about that. The practice of law is difficult and will wear you out in a hurry. But because I make my living writing books, I would really like to ask your help. Book reviews are the lifeblood of what I do, and your review of my book would mean a lot to me. If you would take a moment or two and leave your review on Amazon that would be wonderful. I honestly thank you.
—John Ellsworth