Book six, The Devil’s Advocate, earned five stars on Crime Fiction Lover, where it was declared “the best Eddie Flynn book yet” – so does The Accomplice manage to reach that very high bar? I was itching to find out.

Eddie is informed in no uncertain terms that he will get Carrie acquitted or pay the price so he enlists the help of ex FBI agent, Gabriel Lake, to help him gather the intel he needs. So as well as a clever legal thriller, we get the added bonus of a serial killer. I love a good serial killer book. This killer is vicious, and takes his victims eyes as trophy’s, leaving behind sand in their place. I will never hear Mr Sandman, bring me a dream the same way again. I do believe I have this authors other book squirreled away in book shelf and will have to hunt it down.. I received a gifted copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review as part of the readalong hosted by Tandem Collective UK.Kudos, Mr. Cavanagh, for keeping me entertained and highly in tune with the world of legal thrillers. Detectives Margot Burns and Noah Goldman head the 2019 police investigation. Their viewpoints have a police procedural feel to them. I enjoyed the interviews and clues discussed as they worked out the angle for the case. These two best friends have been inseparable since the day they met in college in 2002. When their friend Scarlet is unexpectedly found dead on campus, both are likely suspects. Luna is hiding a secret from her past and does not want it revealed. Owen is her onetime boyfriend. Or could someone else have done it? I remember stumbling upon the Eddie Flynn series and bingeing the first few novels. Since then, I have tried to keep my eyes open for new submissions by Steve Cavanagh, all of which open my eyes to new angles of American criminal defence. Cavanagh knows his stuff and keeps the reader completely engaged as they progress through the story, making this the perfect piece for any who have a penchant for legal thrillers.

Of course every one assumes there is more to their situation. It can't be completely platonic can it? At the crux of it, Owen is just a hoe and Luna is weighed down by insurmountable guilty over giving her serial killer half bro an alibi that lead to more deaths (not a spoiler). I loved the way Lutz crafted this story, by giving me information both from the past and the present that linked together in different ways throughout. The past answered questions about the future, and sometimes even the future would answer questions about the past. Two people who couldn’t appear more different, Owen Mann and Luna Grey, become unlikely friends, and after many years, are still somewhat inseparable. They’re still best friends years later, when Luna finds Owen’s wife brutally murdered. The police investigation sheds light on some long-hidden secrets, but it can’t penetrate the wall of mystery that surrounds Owen. To get to the heart of what happened and why, Luna has to dig up the one secret she’s spent her whole life burying.

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Eddie Flynn wordt op deze zaak gezet en moet de jury zien te overtuigen van de onschuld van Carrie. Zij blijft beweren dat ze niet wist waar haar man, Daniel, zich allemaal mee bezig hield.

The next day, Irene is found dead, shot in the cemetery, and guess who finds her? Luna. What does Luna do? She runs to tell Owen instead of calling the cops. Additionally, the narrative was such a twisted web. My word! Every single person was keeping secrets on some level.

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Thank you to Ballantine Books and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Expected Publication Date: 1/25/22. As always with Steve Cavanagh books, we have a roller coaster ride on the way to a thrilling conclusion. I wanted to both devour and savour this book, it was so very well done. Joseph Kanon is the author of The Good German which was made into a movie starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. The Sandman killings have been solved. Daniel Miller murdered fourteen people before he vanished. His wife, Carrie, now faces trial as his accomplice. The FBI, the District Attorney, the media and everyone in America believe she knew and helped cover up her husband's crimes. In 2016, long before I started reviewing books, I read “The Passenger”. Apparently, I found the story to be a 3 ⭐️ read, but I liked the ending enough to add an extra half star, for a 3.5 rating.

Overall, this is a hard-to-put-down and compelling tale with mysterious undertones, suspenseful chapters that keep you hooked, and brilliant/biting dialogue (which I really love). For the remaining survivors of the Holocaust the term “statute of limitations” is meaningless, they still want justice. No one knows how many of Hitler’s murderers remain alive or where they might be, but for the few their culpability in the Nazi death machine should merit capture, trial, and punishment no matter their age or medical condition. As in the recent novel ONCE WE WERE BROTHERS by Ronald H. Batson, the obsession on the part of a few to bring these criminals to justice dominates the story line as does Joseph Kanon’s latest novel, THE ACCOMPLICE. Kanon, a prolific novelist whose books include THE GOOD GERMAN, LOS ALAMOS, ALIBI, and his most recent novel LEAVING BERLIN has once again written a thriller based on what appears to be actual events exhibiting a superb command of history and the characters that have driven it. The courtroom had no natural light. A concrete box filled with loss, hate, betrayal, murder, corruption and lies. It was the great theatre of human weakness.”I went into this expecting a pulse pounding thriller. It’s more of a slow burn suspense story. While I was fine with it, other readers may have to adjust expectations. The ending, though enjoyable and well plotted, felt a bit anticlimactic. Again, for some reason, I wasn’t bothered by that...maybe because the execution from start to finish was really strong. I guess it was the right read at the right time.