Look Closer

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What begins with matching burner phones and clandestine meetings ends with a Grim Reaper costume and the brutal slaying of Simon’s lover. Credit Ellis’s ability to invoke empathy for two people with troubled backgrounds who have sustained great losses.

When I started with the novel, it seemed formulaic- unhappy couple, infidelity, murder, multiple PoVs and rambling journal entries leading to what I presumed would be a predictable ending! It’s like the Supremes collectively leaned over from Washington to Chicago and whispered to the committee, ‘Make this guy a full professor. Ellis credits his partnership with Patterson with teaching him the value of the succinct, crisp writing that propels the story forward at an unrelenting pace.I'm not changing how I dress and I'm not sucking up to the faculty at poker games and cocktail parties and I'm not using Latin words and I sure as shit am not using footnotes.

David Ellis gradated from Northwestern Law School and began his legal career in private practice in Chicago in 1993. After a glance around, I run the key along the side of the car, a hideous scrape across the driver’s side panel. Or can, Christian Newsome, the sexy financial planner that Vicky seeks out, find a loophole in the PRE-NUP and help Vicky secure her share, regardless of Simon’s obsession with Lauren?You're constantly second-guessing what you know, and just when you think you've got it all figured out, nope, there's another twist. Normally I’d give a longer rundown of the story and plot, but this is definitely an occasion where the less said the better.