Book description
The Sister is the first novella in award-winning author R. J.
Ellory's electrifying ebook-exclusive trilogy, THREE DAYS IN
CHICAGOLAND. The testimonies of the sister, the cop and the killer
will at last reveal the dreadful truth behind the brutal murder of a
young girl in Chicago in 1956.
That final minute should have lasted forever, but it was gone before
I knew it.
Four years, five months, fifteen days, and twenty-two hours
collapsed into sixty seconds.
Today I will see a man die. Today I will see justice delivered. Four
and a half years ago a man - a monster - put his hands around my
sister's fragile neck and squeezed the life out of her. He confessed
without hesitation. He gave no explanation, no defense, and he did not
ask for mercy. And as I sit here, counting down his final seconds on
this Earth, I know my wait is over. I will finally get what I truly
desire: to see my sister's killer executed in front of my eyes. R. J.
Ellory is the critically acclaimed author of nine previous novels
including the bestselling A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS, which was a Richard
and Judy Book Club selection and won the Nouvel Observateur Crime
Fiction Prize. Ellory's novels have been translated into twenty-three
languages, and he has won the USA Excellence Award for Best Mystery, the
Strand Magazine Best Thriller 2009, the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime
Novel of the Year for A SIMPLE ACT OF VIOLENCE and the Quebec Laureat.
He has been shortlisted for a further thirteen awards in numerous
countries, including four Dagger Awards from the UK Crime Writers'
Association. Despite the American setting of his novels, Ellory is
British and currently lives in England with his wife and son. To find
out more visit www. rjellory. com.
