Eye of the Beholder

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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-time handyman, Terry Burgos, who had been stalking one of the victims, is arrested and confesses to the crime. Riley successfully argues for the death penalty and Burgos is executed eight years later.

Another eight years pass, and the Burgos trial is a distant memory. A reporter named Carolyn Pendry airs a documentary in which she argues that Burgos did not belong on Death Row in the first place; he was clearly psychotic and should have been...Read more

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-mogul billionaire was never tried to her father's influence. In 1996, Terry is killed but his last words, cryptic though they might be, were to the prosecutor Paul Riley: "I am not the only one".

In the present, a series of murders are linked to the killings in 1989. Paul Riley, now the head of mega powerful law firm, receives strange notes from the killer, has his finger prints on one of the victims and is forced into part of the new case...Read more

This was a really good read it sucked you in from the first page.
the story was told in such a way you kept thinking you had solved it
then there was another twist.
have to say housework suffered as I only took 2days to read it.
I will now be looking for other books by david ellis