The 3 best books by Steve Cavanagh

Steve Cavanagh begins to be an alternative to himself John Banville in suspense made in Ireland. The translation into Spanish is not that it has been the most immediate but the titles are beginning to arrive. And the general reception of its plots, legal thriller reel, has been a real shock. There is no lover of noir, but with that melancholic hint of someone who is still looking for points of deduction between the police and the judicial, who does not succumb to the Eddie Flynn series.

Because with Lawyer Flynn one never gets bored. Partly due to the wise characterization that is mutable in a multitude of folds that end up stinging like surprising edges and as a necessary counterweight, everything revolving around juicy plots, well worked and perfectly maintained in the most measured suspense of the alchemist of letters that Cavanagh is already.

As I said, on the one hand Cavanagh manages to make the contradictions of his characters not creak. Because those irregular sensations of the characters are even necessary without ending up falling into a lack of credibility. A diabolic balance in which this author moves as a veteran trapeze artist in black on his white background. But successful characters moved in the desert would be of no use. The exuberance of the frameworks with political, sociological and of course police overtones ends up closing round stories.

Steve Cavanagh's Top Recommended Novels

13. The murderer is not in the dock, he is among the jury

It sounds sacrilegious for a writer to point to the possible resolution of his story right from the title. But as in so many other areas, only daring ends up breaking with dogmas and trends. If Steve wanted to anticipate that from the start, then not so bad. We will know where to look when none of the characters in the story know... And that already has a morbid point of an omniscient reader playing suspense with other similar ones.

But it is also that the matter supposes such a grotesque change of focus... That the murderer could be contemplating how justice shoots himself in the foot, how the defendant implores mercy before an approaching sentence with the strange certainty of some clues that locate him in the center of the hurricane... Maximum voltage guaranteed because an evil plan is looming over us. Kane doesn't mess around and his closest horizon is seen as one of the most ingenious delusions of recent crime.

The murder wasn't the most complicated part. It was just the beginning of the game. Joshua Kane has been preparing his entire life for this moment. He had already done it before. But this time will be the most important.

This is the murder trial of the century, and Kane has murdered to get the best seat in the courtroom. But there is someone on the lookout for him, someone who suspects that the murderer is not the defendant. Kane knows that time is running out and all he wants is the conviction verdict before he is found out.

13. The murderer is not in the dock, he is among the jury

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The challenge is served. We are located in front of the representation of the crime. In one of those scenes where the investigator on duty arrives trying to put everything in order. Only this time the re-enactment of the murder is still steaming explained by the vilest psychopath, who could be either of the two…girls to be more exact.

The legal suspense acquires in this plot that feeling that all the red lines and all the moral limits are being crossed. It is no longer just a matter of justice, it is ethics, humanity... But we are not before this book to prosecute and nobody but to know who first. Between trompe l'oeil and self-deception to which the author induces us in some way, we are tying and untying ends, looking like desperate junkies for some clue.

And then the matter is not finished. Because Justice should not be black or white either. The myth of King Solomon establishing a chair as far as summary justice is concerned is a milonga next to what is going on here. Or maybe yes. Hence the title pointing to 50% chances in Cristiano.

"911 What's your emergency?" "My dad is dead. My sister Sofia killed him. She is still in the house. Please send help." "My dad is dead. My sister Alexandra killed him. She is still in the house. Please send help."

One of them is a liar and a murderer. But which?

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The devil's lawyer

Third part of the Eddie Flynn series. A proposal that, knowing Cavanagah's love for confusion, is a little less so. But of course, Eddie's virtues always end up standing out from the average from his successful eccentricity. And there he once again has us won...

The ex-con turned defense attorney has just seven days to save an innocent man from death row. The powerful district attorney Randal Korn is known as the King of Death Row because he is the prosecutor who has sentenced the most people to capital punishment in the entire history of the United States of America.

When Skylar Edwards is found dead in Buckstone, Alabama, police arrest the last person who saw her alive, Andy Dubois, the college student Skylar worked with at a bar. The town seethes with rage, it seems like no one cares that Andy is innocent and there is little hope that he will get a fair trial. Furthermore, the court-appointed lawyer assigned to him has disappeared.

Eddie Flynn, the brilliant New York lawyer with a dark past as a con man, travels south to take charge of Andy's defense, dismantle the prosecutor's accusation and save the young man from the electric chair. But Eddie only seven days to find the real killer. In a week the judge will read the verdict, will Eddie be alive to hear it?

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