Order of John Ellsworth Books

Order of John Ellsworth Books


John Ellsworth is an American author and former trial lawyer who writes the popular Thaddeus Murfee series of books. A lot of the stories in his books are drawn from his real life. For instance, in the book his lawyers have airplanes as when he was a practicing lawyer his firm had a plane that they used to travel from Chicago to Arizona.

Ellsworth worked as a trial lawyer and were mostly criminal cases, he even worked first chair on some capital murder charges. He would also defend white collar crimes and tax crimes were a specialty. Eventually, he got tired of being exhausted by the high stress life of being a trial lawyer and decided to give a try at writing books.

Publication Order of Michael Gresham Books

The Lawyer

(2016)

The Defendant’s Father / Secrets Girls Keep

(2016)

The Law Partners

(2016)

Voices In The Walls / Carlos the Ant and Jane Doe 235

(2016)

Sakharov the Bear

(2016)

Annie’s Verdict / The Hydra-Shok Verdict

(2017)

Dead Lawyer on Aisle 11

(2017)

30 Days of Justis

(2018)

Lies She Never Told Me / No Direction Home

(2018)

The Fifth Justice

(2018)

Girl, Under Oath

(2021)

Chronological Order of Michael Gresham Books

Lies She Never Told Me / No Direction Home

(2018)

The Lawyer

(2016)

The Defendant’s Father / Secrets Girls Keep

(2016)

The Law Partners

(2016)

Voices In The Walls / Carlos the Ant and Jane Doe 235

(2016)

Sakharov the Bear

(2016)

Annie’s Verdict / The Hydra-Shok Verdict

(2017)

Dead Lawyer on Aisle 11

(2017)

30 Days of Justis

(2018)

The Fifth Justice

(2018)

Girl, Under Oath

(2021)

Publication Order of Annie the Profiler Books

Annie’s Verdict / The Hydra-Shok Verdict

(2017)

Dead Lawyer on Aisle 11

(2017)

Publication Order of Historical Fiction Books

Unspeakable Prayers

(2015)

The Point of Light

(2019)

No Trivial Pursuit

(2020)

God Save the Spy

(2020)

Your Face In The Stars

(2022)

Publication Order of Nine Lives Books

Full Metal Jury

(2022)

The Redemption Manuscript

(2024)

Publication Order of Sisters In Law Books

Court Order / Frat Party

(2015)

Hellfire

(2015)

The District Attorney

(2021)

Justice in Time

(2021)

Publication Order of Spies In The Rose Garden Books

Lawyers in Gray

(2021)

The Seventh Grade Spy (With: Ellis Ellsworth)

(2023)

Publication Order of Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thrillers Books

The Defendants

(2014)

Beyond a Reasonable Death

(2014)

Attorney at Large

(2014)

Chase, the Bad Baby

(2014)

Defending Turquoise

(2014)

The Mental Case

(2014)

The Girl Who Wrote The New York Times Bestseller

(2015)

The Trial Lawyer

(2015)

A Young Lawyer’s Story / Thaddeus Murfee

(2016)

The Near Death Experience

(2018)

Flagstaff Station

(2018)

The Crime

(2019)

La Jolla Law

(2019)

The Post Office

(2020)

The Contract Lawyer

(2020)

RICO Rocky

(2021)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Empty Place at the Table

(2017)

The Casting Couch

(2022)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Hunt for Thaddeus Murfee

(2023)

Publication Order of Collections

No Direction Home

(2023)

Note: A Young Lawyer’s Story was originally titled Thaddeus Murfee.