Keep Them Close
Want a masterclass in how to plot an amazing mystery-thriller? David Ellis is your man. In what I think is his best since 2022’s Look Closer , which was also a 5 star read for me, his personal knowledge of the legal system as a lawyer and former prosecutor are on full display, and I don’t know whether to be impressed or terrified at how well he understands how it can be manipulated in the hands of someone who knows how it works! Allison Brice is a high-powered former prosecutor and now respected defense lawyer in her own private practice, where she’s pulling down a million dollars a year. Her husband Finley is a skirt chaser whose endless failing start-up ideas leave Allison as the sole provider for them and their college freshman son Grayson. Luke Rankin is Allison’s older brother. He’s a very successful college baseball coach whose golden boy future as a baseball prodigy was cut short by an accident involving his bike and a drunk driver when he was 12. Trinity Casto is Luke’s lo...
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