The Near Death Experience

A courtroom drama about a wrongful-death suit against a celebrity author whose book promised the afterlife. Faith, science and liability meet in a legal thriller with a philosophical streak.

When you need to prove life after death to win a court case, you had better hope for a miracle.

Dr. Emerick Sewell's book, a sensational account of his near-death experience, has taken the world by storm. But when one of his readers overdoses on pills to be reunited with her dead husband, her family blames the author and files suit.

Against his better judgment, Thaddeus Murfee swallows his cynicism and takes the case.

The deeper the young lawyer digs, the more the new evidence makes him question the nature of life and death itself, and what a jury can be asked to believe. The verdict will turn on the one question no witness can answer under oath.

The Near Death Experience is a Thaddeus Murfee legal thriller, for readers who love wrongful-death trials, courtroom philosophy and cases that put belief itself on the stand. Perfect for fans of John Grisham, Scott Turow and William Landay.

Praise for the Thaddeus Murfee series:

★★★★★ John Ellsworth is My # 1 Favorite Legal Author.

★★★★★ I can hardly put your books down. What a talented writer you are. Please don't stop!

★★★★★ Thaddeus Murphee is the most wonderful, complicated, interesting, and kind character I have ever read about!!

★★★★★ The major and only problem with a John Ellsworth novel is that it ends far too quickly and I read far too fast.

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