Eye of the Beholder
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (647 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000U20V8Y |
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| Number of Pages | : | 529 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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. All rights reserved. Even an accomplished and inventive narrator like Dick Hill can only do so much—a pause before announcing a time shift, the use of a distinctive accent for the killer—to keep listener confusion to a minimum. But there's not much any reader could do with a key ingredient of the novel—the nonsense messages left at the crime scenes that contain a coded text that is near-impossible to distinguish by ear. From Publishers Weekly Some books aren't natural fits for audio. Ellis uses chapter breaks, posted dates, italics and a shift from present tense narration to past tense for 1989, efforts that clarify matters in print but are a bit subtle for audio. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Complicating things even more, the
Falters badly at the end Ralph Adam Fine It is a shame when lawyers, especially lawyers with great reputations, write legal thrillers that are wrong on the law, or, at the very least, stretch verity so the brooks are much too broad for leaping (to paraphrase Housman). Sadly, although it is a good read and a page-turner, the ending of Eye of the Beholder is both contrived and maudlin.I will not map the broad brooks, chasms really, because that would give away part of the plot. I can, however, quote the protagonist's musing about the insanity defense, which he gets wrong (c. ""Was an innocent man executed?"" according to E. Bukowsky. In "Eye of the Beholder," by David Ellis, a sadistic assailant murders and mutilates six young women (two students along with four runaways and prostitutes), each in a different manner. One of the victims is heiress Cassie Bentley, the spoiled daughter of influential and wealthy parents. Detective Joel Lighter is the investigator and the prosecutor is First Assistant County Attorney Paul Riley, who quickly realizes that this investigation could launch his career. Much to Riley's relief, the matter is quickly resolved when a part-ti. A Customer said excellent police procedural. In the summer of 1989, six women were found in the basement near the maintenance lockers of Mansbury College. All the women were tortured and each died in a different manner ranging from strangulation to near decapitation. One of the victims, college student Ellie Danzinger had gotten a restraining order out against Terry Burgos, a part time handyman at the college. Whey they went to his home, they found enough evidence to convict him for five of the killings. The case of the sixth girl he killed Cassie Bentley, daughter to a mega-
Riley realizes that the two cases are connected and finds himself at the center of a police task force—as an investigator…and a suspect.Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.. Now, fifteen years later, the police are confronted with a new series of murders and mutilations. Paul Riley has built a lucrative career based on his famous prosecution of Terry Burgos, who gruesomely murdered six girls