The Devil's Advocate by Steve Cavanagh

The Devil's Advocate by Steve Cavanagh
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Thank you to Atria Books via NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!
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He’s won every trial…because he’s behind every murder.

Ambitious District Attorney Randal Korn lives to watch prisoners executed. Even if they are not guilty.

An innocent man, Andy Dubois, faces the death penalty for the murder of young girl. Korn has already fixed things to make sure he wins a fast conviction. The one thing Korn didn't count on was Eddie Flynn.

Slick, street smart, and cunning, the former con artist and now New York lawyer has only seven days to save an innocent man against a corrupt system and find the real killer.

In a week the judge will read the verdict, but will Eddie be alive to hear it?
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Well, it's always a good day when I have a new Eddie Flynn novel to sink my teeth into. However, I have to wait to read it until I have an entire day free because chances are it's going to be a binge read for me. And this one was no different. It had a little bit of a different feel because Eddie and the gang traveled away from their usual NYC location to the Deep South to take on this case, and I was initially a little...put off? by the idea because part of what makes an Eddie Flynn book so great is the grit of fighting for justice in the big city. However, I need not have worried because Cavanagh delivered a five-star thriller once again.

Every time I read one of these books, I have to remind myself that the author is a native of Belfast and not of New York because his attention to detail is so good. This offering touched on some hot topics that are going on the US right now (even though its original publication date was 2021), and they were handled with grace and style. I learned a bit about some parts of history I was unaware of, and I appreciated the author's note at the end that gave a little more information about some things I had already taken some time and looked up myself.

As a side note, there are two books in the Eddie Flynn series that are not currently available for purchase here in the US (Why, Atria, why?), so I definitely ordered copies of them from the UK and look forward to reading them soon. I have never been so excited about a series that I ordered books in it from another country. Steve Cavanagh is THAT GOOD.

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