Line of Vision - by David Ellis (Paperback)

About the Book

Investment banker Marty Kalish is in love with a married woman. When the woman's husband is murdered, Marty is a suspect. He was at the scene of the crime, he had a motive, and he manipulated the evidence to hide his guilt. Marty has even confessed. Yet what is Marty really confessing to? What really happened on the night of the murder?

Book Synopsis

David Ellis's Line of Vision won the 2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author

Marty Kalish is a young man suffocating in the heat of an affair with a married woman named Rachel. When Rachel's husband disappears one night, Marty is one of the first to be questioned. With few likely suspects, the police arrest him for murder. We know Marty was outside their home that night. We know he has a motive. We know he's guilty of something. But is it murder?

Everything we have learned--about Marty as a man, his affair with Rachel, and the night in question--comes from Marty himself. But as the trial unfolds to a jaw-dropping conclusion, we learn that there is more to the truth than one man's narrow line of vision.

Review Quotes

"The best suspense novel I've read in a while...surprising." --James Patterson

"Wicked...A twisty spellbinding story." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author

David Ellis is a judge and a #1 New York Times-bestselling, Edgar Award-winning author of eleven novels of crime fiction, as well as nine books co-authored with James Patterson. In December, 2014, Dave was sworn in as the youngest-serving Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District. Ellis lives outside Chicago with his wife and three children.