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Life Sentence

by David Ellis · 2003

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Jon Soliday is legal counsel to a powerful politician—his childhood best friend—who is running for governor. The two have shared political success and undying loyalty. But an anonymous letter hinting at blackmail and a colleague's mysterious death remind them of something else they have in common. A dark secret from the summer of 1979...murder.

Genre
mysterythrillercrime
Setting
2000sIllinois
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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