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Thirteen is the legal thriller Lee Child, Michael Connelly, and Ruth Ware are raving about and readers can't put down.
"Outstanding - an intriguing premise, a tense, gripping build-up, and a spectacular climax. This guy is the real deal. Trust me." --Lee Child
"A dead bang BEAST of a book that expertly combines Cavanagh's authority on the law with an absolutely great thrill ride. Books this ingenious don't come along very often." --Michael Connelly
It's the murder trial of the century. And Joshua Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house - and to be sure the wrong man goes down for the crime. Because this time, the killer isn't on trial. He's on the jury.
But there's someone on his tail. Former-conman-turned-criminal-defense-attorney Eddie Flynn doesn't believe that his movie-star client killed two people. He suspects that the real killer is closer than they think - but who would guess just how close?
"A brilliant, twisty, ingeniously constructed puzzle of a book. Steve Cavanagh pulls off an enviable premise with panache." --Ruth Ware
Author Notes
Steve Cavanagh is the international award-winning author of the Eddie Flynn novels. His debut novel, The Defense , was nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Thriller of the Year, and The Plea won the Prix Polar Award for Best International Novel. Steve is still a practicing lawyer (someday he'll get the hang of it) and co-host of the chart-topping podcast Two Crime Writers And A Microphone. He has been involved in several high-profile civil rights cases, his Eddie Flynn novels have been published in over twenty countries, he's married with two young children, and in his spare time he is mostly asleep.
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
What if the killer is on the jury? That's the harrowing question posed by Cavanagh's pulse-pounding third novel featuring New York defense attorney Eddie Flynn (after 2018's The Liar). Cavanagh juxtaposes the viewpoints of Flynn, brought in to help defend actor Bobby Solomon, who's accused of killing his wife in their Manhattan home, and Joshua Kane, who murders and connives his way onto the jury in the actor's trial. Some literal courtroom sleight of hand and sharp questioning by Flynn throws doubt on the seemingly airtight case of the prosecution, but Flynn's best chance is to identify another killer. His ex-FBI investigator Harper and her contact in the Bureau's Behavioral Analysis Unit provide a solid lead--a serial killer who has remained hidden by framing others for his crimes. Meanwhile, from within the jury, the ruthless Kane is able to discredit or kill the fellow jurors who won't vote his way. Cavanagh throws in false leads and red herrings to heighten the uncertainty. This tightly plotted page-turner delivers as both a legal thriller and serial killer investigation. Agent: George Lucas, Inkwell Management. (Aug.)
Guardian Review
British novelist Belinda Bauer is at her considerable best when writing about children, and the opening chapter of her latest book, Snap (Bantam, £12.99), is one of the most vividly unnerving I have read. It¿s August 1998, and 11-year-old Jack has been left in charge of his young sisters in a hot, broken-down car in a layby on the M5 while their mother goes to call for help. When she doesn¿t return, they trudge down the road to find her, to be met with only the dangling receiver of the emergency phone. When her body is found, the children¿s father, unable to cope, leaves them to fend for themselves. Jack becomes proficient at burgling houses to support the family, and his habit of stealing food and taking naps in his victims¿ beds leads baffled local police to refer to him as ¿Goldilocks¿. Meanwhile, pregnant Catherine wakes to find a knife beside her bed with an ominous note, and DI John Marvel, his career in the doldrums and loathing his forced relocation from London to Somerset, longs for the chance to prove himself. Although Catherine¿s reasons for not reporting her alarming findings to either her husband or the police don¿t ring entirely true, Bauer deftly weaves these strands together for an intelligent mystery, written with razor-sharp observation and wry humour. There¿s more crime in the West Country ¿ this time Cornwall ¿ in Martyn Waites¿s The Old Religion (Zaffre, £12.99), which contains several nods to such folk-horror classics as The Wicker Man, although the murderous pagan rituals here are performed to bring prosperity to the fictional village of St Petroc. Former undercover policeman Tom Killgannon is in witness protection and fears for his life after 17-year-old Lila, on the run from a Travellers¿ commune after unwittingly participating in a kidnapping, breaks into his house and steals a jacket containing the documentation for his new identity. In trying to find her, Tom risks not only giving away his location to the gangs he¿s hiding from, but also becoming a target for her ruthless pursuers. A strong plot, a formidable air of menace and the avoidance of hillbilly horror cliche add up to a superbly executed cautionary tale about the malevolent force of parochialism. Steve Cavanagh¿s series featuring conman-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn has been getting stronger with each book and Thirteen (Orion, £7.99) is the best yet. Set in New York, with a terrific hook, a thoroughly likable protagonist and more twists than a tornado, it¿s the story of the trial of Robert Solomon, one half of a Hollywood power couple, for the murder of his wife. The real killer, however, is not in the dock but on the jury, having offed one of the 12 in order to assume his identity. The race is on and Cavanagh sets a cracking pace as he switches between Flynn¿s perspective and that of the murderer in a genuine, read-in-one-sitting page-turner. The first novel by Korean bestseller You-jeong Jeong to be translated into English, The Good Son (Little, Brown, £16.99, translated by Chi-young Kim) begins with the 25-year-old narrator Yu-jin waking up in the family apartment covered in blood and then discovering his mother lying downstairs with her throat slit. He knows he went for a run the previous night, but remembers nothing more. However, he hasn¿t been taking his anti-seizure medication and for some reason his late father¿s cut-throat razor is in his room. Yu-jin¿s life begins to unravel as he attempts to fill in the gaps in his memory while hiding his mother¿s death from his perplexed stepbrother and aunt. He starts to discover things about himself that his mother had tried to keep hidden, and Jeong expertly inches up the tension in this crafty, creepy story of a psychopath¿s coming-of-age. Our Kind of Cruelty (Century, £12.99) by Araminta Hall offers a different but equally compelling take on male derangement, reminiscent of the late Ruth Rendell¿s wonderful psychological thriller Going Wrong. During their intense eight-year love affair, Mike and Verity played a sex game called ¿the Crave¿, which involved Mike ¿rescuing¿ Verity from the attentions of other men. At Verity¿s urging, Mike took a job in the US and, by the time he returned, the relationship had cooled. It soon becomes clear that Mike, who is busily furnishing a house for himself and Verity to live in, refuses to believe that she has moved on, even interpreting an invitation to her wedding as a challenging new twist in their old game. The extent to which she is manipulating him is never entirely clear, but this is a disturbing tale of obsession and a sobering reminder of how women are judged on their desires. An addition to the increasingly popular subgenre of ¿house thriller¿, The House Swap by Rebecca Fleet (Doubleday, £12.99) certainly has an intriguing premise: gaslighting by home exchange. An unhappily married couple leave their Leeds flat for a week¿s stay in London, and the wife has a creeping sense that a past love affair may be coming back to haunt her. Although there are some genuinely eerie moments, thin characterisation and an over-reliance on coincidence mean that the idea¿s considerable potential remains unfulfilled. - Laura Wilson.
Kirkus Review
To carry out the final steps of a grandiose scheme, the sophisticated, supremely evasive serial killer Joshua Kane becomes a juror on a celebrity murder trial in Manhattan.The defendant is Hollywood star Bobby Solomon; a heap of incriminating evidence has gotten him all but convicted of stabbing his wife and a security guard. The only person who can get Solomon off, and stop Kane from manipulating the jury into a guilty verdict, is defense attorney Eddie Flynn, back from Cavanagh's (The Plea, 2018, etc.) other two novels. A one-time con artist, Eddie has been hired by a high-powered law firm working for the studio releasing Solomon's new movie. When Kane, sneaking around after dark with his trusty filleting knife, starts killing off jurors he has determined are leaning toward an acquittal, the case goes haywirebut keeps going, one of the more questionable details in the novel. While the premise of the book is promising, Cavanagh is too clever for his own good. The gimmick of the killer jurist is worn so thin that the murders have no real impact. It would be one thing if Kane had a unique personality to go with his rare congenital analgesia, which makes him unable to feel pain, but he's just another faceless madman with a troubled upbringing. Though Flynn is hardly alone among crime-fiction heroes in struggling to win back his wife and child, he's pretty enjoyable. But his winning ways can't distract us from the desperation of an eighth-inning reveal by the author pertaining to the case.In spite of mounting murders, the suspense is uneven in Cavanagh's carefully plotted mystery. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
What better way to influence the outcome of the trial of the century than to serve on its jury? When movie star Bobby Solomon is charged with murdering his wife, who costarred with him in a major film due for release, and his chief of security, both found naked in bed in Solomon's Manhattan brownstone, high-powered attorney Rudy Carp takes the defense and persuades Eddie Flynn, con man turned lawyer, to assist him. When the movie studio pulls its financial support, Carp jumps ship, but Flynn believing his client innocent stays the course, even though it means giving up a job at Carp Law that's a potential lifeline for saving his marriage. Flynn soon finds he's up against the sophisticated serial killer known to the FBI as Dollar Bill, for the distinctly marked bills he leaves by his victims. Dollar Bill's unusual MO includes targeting those charged with the murders he himself commits. From the start, it's clear to the reader that the killer has maneuvered his way onto the Solomon jury, and action accelerates when the defense team puts together the bigger picture. A red herring is a bit disconcerting, but it doesn't substantially lower the impact of the adrenaline-fueled finale. A knockout legal thriller with a doozy of a twist.--Michele Leber Copyright 2019 Booklist