Two Kinds of Stranger by Steve Cavanagh

Two Kinds of Stranger 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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One offers a helping hand. The other is your worst nightmare...

Social media influencer, Elly Parker, had the perfect life, that is until she discovered her husband had been having an affair with her best friend.

But as hurt, betrayed, unmoored as Elly is, she has made it her mission to help others in need. Even strangers.

When Elly meets a man on the steps to the subway platform, crutches in one hand and a yellow suitcase by his feet, she can’t help but feel sorry for him.

Just as he planned.

This small act of kindness sets off a change of events more terrifying than anything she ever could imagine.

To survive, Elly will need to convince the world what happened to her was real. She needs a lawyer who can bend the rules to find the truth. Eddie Flynn and his team must find the stranger with the yellow suitcase. But little do they know this cunning killer is a master manipulator and is always one step ahead.
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One thing to know about me - I am always up for an Eddie Flynn book. Therefore, when an invitation to read Steve Cavanagh's latest of Flynn's adventures as a former con man turned lawyer showed up in my mailbox, I was a quick, "Yes, please!" and downloaded that thing immediately. Just as was the case with every other book of Steve Cavanagh's I have read (a quick count tells me that is eight...does that make me a superfan?), I was thoroughly entertained. There is something about the way that this author writes that grabs me from page one and keeps me fully engaged until the very last page.

In this new offering (as usual, published first in the UK and then the following year here in the US), we get to enjoy another twisty, gripping courtroom thriller that takes place both inside of and outside of the courtroom. Flynn's usual cast of partners lend their special magic to the storyline, and the accused is someone who is easy to root for, as it is obvious from the beginning that she has been wrongfully accused. And the bad guy in this story? The level of uneasiness I felt just thinking about someone like him being out in the world was just over the top. He was a bone-chillingly cold level of evil. And because I know Cavanagh's style, as I was reaching the end of the book and it seemed like things were being tied up nicely, I knew that there were perhaps more twists to be had, and I was not disappointed.

Best of all, in the author's note, he said that we can expect more books in this series, so I know that this had not been the last I have seen of Eddie Flynn. This was an excellent way for me to spend my day, and I read the entire book in one sitting because I could not put it down!

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