The Bell Tower
The brand new suspense thriller from an award-winning bestseller
by R.J. Ellory
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Pub Date 7 Nov 2024 | Archive Date Not set
Orion Publishing Group | Orion
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Description
Death Row duty comes with three simple rules:
Do not make it personal
Do not question the system
Do not take justice into your own hands
Garrett Nelson will break every one of them.
Injured during a drug bust, sheriff's deputy Garrett Nelson finds himself working at a Florida Penitentiary, under the shadow of an old bell tower turned execution chamber.
There, his belief in the justice system will be tested to its limit - as a manhunt through the Everglades sparks a conflict of duty versus conscience.
Can he turn a blind eye to an innocent man's execution or risk his own life in the pursuit of truth? For life on death row takes its toll: until you can't take it anymore...
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PRAISE FOR R.J. ELLORY
'Beautiful and haunting... A tour de force' MICHAEL CONNELLY
'Beautifully written novels that are also great mysteries' JAMES PATTERSON
'A uniquely gifted, passionate, and powerful writer' ALAN FURST
'In the top flight of crime writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'The master of the genre' CLIVE CUSSLER
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781398710399 |
PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 448 |
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Featured Reviews
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There are some books that just stay with you forever. They may not be your favourites or the best written books but something about them just mean you never forget them.
One of those books, for me, is one of Ellory's previous novels - A Quiet Belief in Angels. Its hard to put my finger on why I loved it so much other than I think it was the first time I realised that crime fiction could also be literary. I think there can some snobbery around crime fiction that some writers, academics, literary judges think it is beneath them but A Quiet Belief in Angels taught me that such snobbery is completely misplaced.
Since then, I have followed RJ Ellory's career and was so pleased to be given the opportunity to remember why I fell in love with his writing all those years ago. The Bell Tower is part of a prison, more accurately an execution chamber, where Garrett Nelson finds himself working after being medically retired from the Sheriff's department.
Understandably, the darkness hanging over such a place soon casts a shadow over Garrett however with a new partner, he continues to seek out the light. However, when Garrett meets an inmate scheduled for death in the coming months, and realises there is far more to his story than meets the eye, he wonders whether an innocent man will soon be put to death.
As with his previous novels, the writing here is beautiful and poetic. The sense of darkness hanging over such a prison, and the brutal effect it has on staff and prisoners alike jumps off the page and casts a shadow over the reader. Only writers like Ellory could really do it justice.
Obviously, I can only provide a brief synopsis given that anything further would be a spoiler, however I would encourage anyone not familiar with his work to remedy that asap!
Thanks to Netgalley and Orion Publishing Group | Orion for an ARC in exchange for an honest review