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Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

17 reviews

greenglass67's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Pretty good book! It feels like an episode of Criminal Minds. It's a pretty court-heavy crime drama, but the pacing and other elements of the story keep it from getting boring. There are a lot of layers to the story and the crime involved and a few minor plot twists that I didn't see coming. It does take a bit to really get going, but I still enjoyed it. I think this book is part of a series, but I read it as a standalone and didn't have any trouble understanding it.
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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I wanted to read this book I have read the first couple of books in the Eddie Flynn series and really enjoyed Steve Cavanagh’s style of writing. I was really intrigued in the storyline, and it did not disappoint. This book was amazing.  

The main character is Eddie Flynn, who was once a con man, an ex-lawyer who has had an interesting cases recently including fighting for his life against the Russian mafia, helping David Child, a major client of a corrupt law firm and Leonard Howard who wanted to find his daughter. Eddie is wanting a stable job so that he can go back and get his wife and daughter back and live a peaceful life. However his newest client is Robert Solomon. He is a Hollywood star and he was part of the hottest power couple and now his wife is dead and he is being charged with the murder. This is the celebrity murder trial of the century and the defence team wants Eddie Flynn to help with the case. All the evidence points to Robert’s guilt, but as the trial begins a series of incidents in the court room start to raise doubts in Eddie’s mind. What if there is more than one actor in the courtroom. This is an adult fictional legal thriller. 
 
This novel is great because it grips you from the very first chapter. The storyline is intriguing. The characters are easy to love with a lot of development and the plot twist is amazing.  My favourite chapters in any type of these books are when the main character figures everything out and has a game plan. You feel hype out for the character and want him to succeed. The one thing I would say that I didn’t like personally, a book peeve of mine, is small chapters. However, for once it worked. Especially as the tension was building and then changed to somewhere else. This was the first time this series had multiple POVs which just made it better and I loved it. Especially as you don’t know exactly who the bad guy is showing as. So Eddie was thinking it was someone completely different and we believed him and it all didn’t come out until the end.  

I bloody loved this book and it managed to keep me hooked from the beginning and I am intrigued for the next book. I gave this book 5 stars as I loved the storyline and the plot twists.  

P.S. Netflix I would watch this if you made it a series.
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charskindle's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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isabelatms's review against another edition

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dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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loop_laurens's review

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mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

A fairly average crime novel, with a plot not as exciting as the blurb makes it sound. The switch between third person POV (the killer) and first person POV (the lawyer) was fairly jarring at first, and took a while to get used to. Not a terrible way to pass the time, but not particularly thrilling either.
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asourceoffiction's review

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I may have to read the whole Eddie Flynn series after starting with this explosive book. I love the dual perspectives in the chapters, so we immediately begin to get inside the serial killer's head. But it managed to keep enough surprise for a great twist reveal at the end. 

I also found the courtroom drama really interesting; it was written in just the right way to present facts and evidence that made me question the verdict, but it never got bogged down in lists of facts. Court scenes have to be so static that they risk being repetitive but this was really interesting.

Part thriller, part legal drama, part murder mystery. It's such an enjoyable story.
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that_art_monster's review

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dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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