Eye of the Beholder
Written by David Ellis
Narrated by Dick Hill
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Attorney Paul Riley has built a lucrative career on his famous prosecution of Terry Burgos, a serial killer who emulated the lyrics of a violent song to gruesomely murder six girls, including the daughter of billionaires Harland and Natalia Bentley. Now, fifteen years later, the police are confronted with a new series of murders—and the grisly second verse to the song. Riley is the first to realize that the two cases are connected and that the line between copycat and cover-up has been blurred. But as the murderer’s list of victims becomes less random and more personal, Riley finds himself at the center of a police task force as both an investigator and a suspect.
As the layers encasing the mystery unravel, old deceptions emerge with dangerous new consequences. Driven by his own fear that he may have overlooked something crucial during the investigation years ago—and worse yet, the possibility that he is responsible for the execution of an innocent man—Riley sifts through fifteen years of lies in order to uncover the truth. But what he discovers along the way is that the killer isn’t the only one who wants to keep the past buried.
David Ellis
David Ellis’s previous novels include In the Company of Liars, Jury of One, Life Sentence, and Line of Vision, for which he won an Edgar Award. An attorney from Chicago, he serves as Counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.
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Reviews for Eye of the Beholder
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I've read a few of the Ellis & Patterson co-written books as well as Jury of One by Ellis alone and I had found his writing to be quite crisp and compelling yet Eye of the Beholder was not quite up to those standards. There's a fair bit of action in there with quite a few plot twists, yet for the most part it didn't really resonate with me and I found the ending to be rather cliched.Overall, it was an okay book but I wouldn't be in a rush to recommend it to anyone.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I love Ellis's Kolarich series and was excited to find this book at a used bookstore recently. I didn't love this as much as the Kolarich series and I would attribute it to maybe be one of his earlier books. I was very turned around through the early stages of the book with the storyline going back and forth to a series of murders years earlier to the most recent event. But I have to say that when things started falling together towards the end of the book I was blown away by how exactly the events were all connected and the various characters played their role. I'm not usually this dense when it comes to mystery/thrillers but this one totally caught me off guard.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Paul Riley became famous after convicting a serial killer who acted out the lyrics from a violent song. Terry Burgos received the death penalty for killing six young women, including the daughter of billionaires Harland and Natalia Bentley. Years later killings begin to act out the second verse of the song. Is it a copycat? Did Burgos have a partner? Or did Riley convict the wrong man?The premise is fine, but the actual book is just okay. You definitely have to suspend belief and make some odd leaps in logic in order for everything to fit. The story was fine as a distraction while I worked, but I won't remember it a few months from now.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A little obvious, but the characters are compelling, and the story is interesting (if far-fetched). A quick and easy read.