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John Ellsworth is one of the bestselling authors from the US, who is famous for writing mystery, legal thriller, and crime fiction novels. He has written a number of highly successful legal thriller books in his writing career. The Thaddus Murfee series is one of the most popular ones that he has written. His other two popular thriller series include the Sisters in Law series and the Michael Grisham series. In addition to being an author, he is also a renowned lawyer. Author Ellsworth hails from Arizona, the United States. Prior to becoming a well established author, Ellsworth used to practice law throughout the nation. In his career as a criminal lawyer, he has defended a number of criminal clients from across the US. The law career of author Ellsworth spanned for a period of 30 years in total. After retiring from his former profession, Ellsworth decided to try his hand at writing thriller novels. He had his vast career experience in front of him, which he could use to develop his thrilling stories. And Ellsworth did just the same thing. He wrote his first legal thriller and published it in the year 2014. It is known by the title ‘The Defendants’. Author Ellsworth is a self published writer. By being so, he says that he enjoys the freedom of managing his release schedules, marketing his written works, and selecting the covers of his books. Ellsworth is particularly very grateful to Amazon for starting their Kindle edition publications. He believes that it is a great thing as it gives important access to all the writers towards readership. Author Ellsworth has stated that he always liked reading thriller books. This habit has helped him to improve his writing skills and now, he enjoys being a noteworthy author a lot. As for his own books, he says that they are the kinds of book that he loves to read. They are filled with a lot of information about a wide range of characters, plenty of dialogue, and always show a lot of action sequences featuring young attorneys. All the books that he has penned, so far, represent the type of learning experience that he himself has gone through when he was young.
Author Ellsworth remembers how he used to do patty cake work when it was required of him to do the right thing for his clients. Nowadays, he busy developing the next books of his popular novel series, which are expected to be released soon in the coming days. Ellsworth’s books are always focused to entertain the readers. He doesn’t like to do anything dark or deep or plodding, but he makes sure that whatever he writes is appreciated by the readers. Currently, he resides in Southern California along with his beautiful wife named Deb and 5 daughters. Author Ellsworth is very fond of pet animals. For this reason, he has kept 3 pet dogs in his house. He also has some interest in music, which can be seen rightly guessed by seeing the collection of his guitars. As Ellsworth’s house is located very near to the beach, he likes to visit the beach very often and spends long hours in the peaceful atmosphere. Ellsworth possesses a 3 wheeled bicycle that he uses to ride through the town streets. As far as his writing career is concerned, author Ellsworth states that he will continue to write as long as he lives. This is quite obvious as he has nothing else to do in life. And at his age, he does not think that he is not capable of trying anything new at this point of life. As his books are very well known and extremely successful, they have been downloaded for millions of times, and the count is increasing day by day. Having established himself as a published author is a dream come true for author Ellsworth. According to him, the credit for this goes to his dedicated fans and readers, who love his work and keep motivating him to come up with more interesting works.
The Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller series written by John Ellsworth is comprised of a total of 10 books, which were released between the years 2014 and 2016. All the novels of the series feature the chief protagonist as Thaddeus Murfee, who is introduced as a rookie attorney by author Ellsworth. The debut novel of this thrilling series is entitled as The Defendants. It was released by the Subjudica House in the year 2014. The important characters of the story include Thaddeus Murfee, Ermaline Ransom, and a few others. At the start of the novel, Thaddeus Murfee is shown being hired to take the defense case of Ermaline Ransom. She faces the charge of murdering the man who loved her very much. Ermaline seems to be persecuted not only by the District Attorney, but also by the Illinois Governor and the Mob of Chicago. The Governor is found to take payoffs from the state contractors for the construction jobs. It appears that he will be the least benefitted person if Ermaline gets executed for the killing that she did not do. When the Mob learns that Thaddeus has agreed to defend Ermaline, they warn him with serious threats. As the FBI is involved, Thaddeus tries to take their help to get rid of the threats. However, he fears that they will start looking into the life of Ermaline too. In order to win this difficult case, Thaddeus is required to prove Ermaline as innocent and at the same outwit the Governor and the Mob. He also needs to keep himself alive. As the murder trial begins, a showdown takes place between Thaddeus and a hitman of the Mob. The story comes to a surprising end that leaves every reader breathless.
The next thrilling book written in the series is called as ‘Beyond A Reasonable Death’. It was also published in 2014. At the beginning of the book, it is depicted that Thaddeus Murfee helps the police to put a wanted godfather behind the bars. Because of this, the Mob starts pursuing him. To get rid of them, he files a law suit against them on behalf of several survivors of their recent murders. But, the Mob continues to pursue him, which forces him to travel to West. Seeking refuge, he pursues the case against another godfather and tries to make him lose all his toys. By doing so, Thaddeus Murfee hopes to end his struggle against his men. Thaddeus is continuously chased wherever he goes. At one point, he thinks of taking help from the FBI. But, fearing about the revealing of his whereabouts, he stops. Eventually, Thaddeus takes the case to trial against the largely funded lawyers of the mobsters, which ends with shocking results. In the meantime, Thaddeus also struggles to deal with his love life. Once again, the plot ends in a thrilling courtroom encounter that makes the readers intrigued until the very end.
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It must blow your mind when you see the likes of
Colleen Hoover and Freida McFadden dominate the best
seller lists.
I absolutely love your work and have read everything
you’ve written at least twice.
Thank you and keep up the good work.
I have not been able to obtain a copy of Red, White and Spy by John Ellsworth. I would like to read this as an e-book as my vision is too weak to read a paperback. How might i obtain a copy?
Hi Julie – it looks like that one hasn’t been published yet.
There was a preorder which said the publication date was May 21,2021. Is there a way for me to contact the author to see when it might be released.
Thanks for your help.
Yep he has a contact form at the bottom here https://ellsworthbooks.com/contact