Eddie Flynn knows what it's like to lose a daughter and vows to bring Caroline home safe. Once a con artist, now a hotshot criminal attorney, Flynn is no stranger to the shady New York underworld. All the evidence points to Robert's guilt, but as the trial begins a series of sinister incidents in the court room start to raise doubts in Eddie's mind. On appearance it appears obvious who is the guilty party. The sisters born a year apart but really are quite different. One successful, a golden girl in looks and endeavours. The other pale and troubled. Alexandra and Sofia’s reputation preceded them. But is all as it seems? The evidence increasingly seems as it could go either way in supporting or damning each of the sisters.

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This is the first time I am reading Steve Cavanagh’s work and I am so impressed. His narrating style is so unique and gripping. I simply LOVED the book. I can only surmised that recruitment wasn’t attempted because it was obvious that she was in the middle of her own end game and had no interest in anyone else’s agenda, rather than because she was unbalanced.

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She is not only convinced that her sister murdered him, but also believes that she has not yet left the house. But if he uses this evidence in court, both he and his client - the dead man's widow - will be in mortal danger. In her second novel, Harriet Tyce takes the elements that made her debut, Blood Orange, so compelling and reworks them to tell another gripping tale. Her protagonist, Sadie, is again a criminal barrister and a mother; this time around, however, she’s trying to return to work after a long absence, while also settle her 10-year-old daughter in a new and terrifyingly competitive London school. Sadie left her husband in America for unspecified nefarious reasons and she’s returned reluctantly to the London home of her late mother, a cruel, controlling woman who has ensured the house is full of poisoned memories. Her daughter, Robin, is struggling to get anyone to talk to her at the exclusive Ashams school, while the mothers at the gate are equally unfriendly to Sadie. As she digs into work – she’s defending a teacher accused of grooming a female pupil – she starts to realise their new home might not be as safe as she’d hoped. An insightful look at the realities of motherhood and work, and competitive parenting, this is gratifyingly sinister. Stone Cold Trouble

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Alexandra Avellino is prompted to call the police after discovering the horribly disfigured remains of her father in the house. Fifty Fifty is a straightforward courtroom drama: One daughter is a murderer. The other has been framed. Yet, spoiler alert. one daughter is not only a murderer but is really a serial killer. Totally a psychopath, no remorse, utterly cold and fixated on her agenda. The job of the reader, like the jury is to find out which sister is the guilty one and to ensure that the innocent sibling doesn’t get sentenced instead. Hence the title 50:50. The evidence meant it could go either way. The killer is absolutely genius in her way of killing and she is merciless to the point where she actually enjoys the thought of hurting people. Steve Cavanagh is an Irish author from Belfast and at the age of eighteen, he studied law by mistake. He is now the international award-winning author of the Eddie Flynn novels Reading clients and reading juries was my bag. This case wasn’t normal. There was nothing remotely normal about it. This was the first verdict that I couldn’t call. I was too close to it. In my mind, it was an even split. The verdict may as well come down to a coin toss. A fifty- fifty. Eddie Flynn The SistersHis promise however doesn’t last for long, as his ten-year-old daughter is abducted by the leader of the Russian mafia in New York City, who is on trial for murder. When Eddie meets Child he's convinced the man is innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. With the FBI putting pressure on him to secure the plea, Eddie must find a way to prove Child's innocence while keeping his wife out of danger - not just from the FBI, but from the firm itself.

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This is the celebrity murder trial of the century and the defence want one man on their team: con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn. Fifty-Fifty has a razor-sharp narrative that will cut your throat. A disturbing test of morals that is so perfectly paced. It is as compulsive as it is dark. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Everything that Joshua Kane has been doing throughout his entire life has been aimed towards this very moment. Flynn has his work cut out for him. This trial is going to take everything he has ever learned as a con man and a lawyer combined to acquit his client. He is sure that he is defending the innocent sister – Sofia. She couldn’t have possibly committed such heinous act – she’s too meek and damaged, isn’t she? The signs started becoming clearer and by that point I was a goner. I was sure Flynn was on the winning side but occasionally I could feel doubt creeping in. Tabitha Hardy is in prison for murder, as House of Correction opens. But she’s convinced it won’t be for long: “I still feel like I’m in the middle of a car crash and the crash is going on and on and on. But soon they’ll realise that all of this is crazy and let me go.” The problem is that Tabitha can’t remember the details of what happened on the day Stuart Rees’s corpse was found in the shed outside her house; she suffers from severe depression and “she couldn’t remember that day, or only a few snatches. It had been a day of wild weather and of a crouching fear. The kind of day she had to crawl blindly through, just to get to the end.” I received this book for free from the Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. Fifty-Fifty by Steve Cavanagh She is not only convinced that her sister murdered him, but also believes that she has the murder weapon and has not yet left the house.

The structure of the book is really the best thing about it. We have the story told from the point of view of the two lawyers defending the sisters and from the mysterious ‘She’, the sister who is the killer. This set up works very well until two thirds in, when you just want the book to end so you can congratulate yourself or commiserate on being astute or oblivious to who did it. It got to a point when I started to question the ability of every character concerned about why – as professionals – they were incapable of linking ALL the murders, which gradually implicated and gave motive to identify the killer Eddie's not a man to be coerced into representing a guilty client, but the FBI have incriminating files on Eddie's wife, and if Eddie won't play ball, she'll pay the price. Other than writing, Cavanagh hosts a beloved comedy podcast, Two Crime Writers And A Microphone, with his friend Luca Veste.