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THE SERIAL KILLER ISN'T ON TRIAL. HE'S ON THE JURY...

'Books this ingenious don't come along very often.' Michael Connelly 'THIRTEEN is my favourite read of the year.' Sarah Pinborough

'Outstanding.' Lee Child

'Smart and original. This is a belter of a book.' Clare Mackintosh

• 'To your knowledge, is there anything that would preclude you from serving on this jury?'* Murder wasn't the hard part. It was just the start of the game. Joshua Kane has been preparing for this moment his whole life. He's done it before. But this is the big one. This is the murder trial of the century. And Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house. But there's someone on his tail. Someone who suspects that the killer isn't the man on trial. Kane knows time is running out - he just needs to get to the conviction without being discovered.

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  THIRTEEN REASONS WHY ... YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK: 'An oh so clever hook for an oh so clever, gripping book. THIRTEEN is courtroom drama at its finest, blended with page-turning twists and characters you can't get enough of. Steve Cavanagh is the John Grisham for a new generation. Slick, thrilling and unique, THIRTEEN is my favourite read of the year.'
  Sarah Pinborough 'Outstanding - an intriguing premise, a tense, gripping build-up, and a spectacular climax. This guy is the real deal. Trust me.'
  Lee Child 'Smart and original. This is a belter of a book.'
  Clare Mackintosh 'Great hook. Great plot. Great book. Thirteen is a real page turner and one you won't want to put down.'
  Simon Kernick 'A brilliant, twisty, ingeniously constructed puzzle of a book. Steve Cavanagh pulls off an enviable premise with panache.'
  Ruth Ware 'I've been tracking Steve Cavanagh for a few years now and Thirteen is his best, a dead bang beast of a book that expertly combining his authority on the law with an absolutely great thrill ride. Books this ingenious don't come along very often.'
  Michael Connelly 'Quite simply deserves to be HUGE. If you read a thriller as good this year, it's only because you've read this one twice.'
  Mark Billingham 'Tore through this between dusk and dawn. Absolute 5-star cracker from Steve Cavanagh, who's gotta be among top legal thriller writers out there nowadays. A powerhouse of a book that's much more than its high-concept hook.'
  Craig Sisterson 'Wow! This book is friggin' awesome! Utterly immersive.'
  Emma Kavanagh 'Fantastically gripping? Guilty as charged!'
  Angela Clarke 'An absolute cracker.'
  Susi Holliday 'Guilty of thrills, twists, and expertly manipulating the reader.'
  Mason Cross 'An absolute rollercoaster of a read. Thrilling.'
  Cass Green **

Review

Winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Reads of 2019
* Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s* Best Books of the Summer “Wickedly clever courtroom drama.”
―New York Times Book Review “A superb action-packed story that melds the legal thriller with the serial killer subgenre… Sharp dialogue, court scenes that crackle, well-devised red herrings and deeply sculpted characters make Thirteen an outstanding thriller.”
―Associated Press
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*“A terrific hook, a thoroughly likable protagonist and more twists than a tornado … A genuine, read-in-one-sitting page-turner.” ―The Guardian “Outstanding - an intriguing premise, a tense, gripping build-up, and a spectacular climax. This guy is the real deal. Trust me.” ―Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Courtroom drama at its finest… Thirteen is an outstanding legal thriller, so original, clever and accomplished that it should not be missed. It marks out Cavanagh as the heir apparent to John Grisham.” ― Express (UK) “A dead bang BEAST of a book that expertly combines his authority on the law with an absolutely great thrill ride. Books this ingenious don’t come along very often.” ― Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Dazzling…One of the most accomplished legal dramas I have read this year, it reminds me of Scott Turow’s stunning *Presumed Innocent.” ― Daily Mail* “A knockout legal thriller with a doozy of a twist.”
― Booklist , starred review “Pulse-pounding...This tightly plotted page-turner delivers as both a legal thriller and serial killer investigation.”
― Publishers Weekly , starred review “A brilliant, twisty, ingeniously constructed puzzle of a book. Steve Cavanagh pulls off an enviable premise with panache.” ―Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Any reader's sheer delight.... Thirteen is a thrilling blitz of a novel, for new readers or old fans. Even as the driving question is less who and more how , there is no shortage of plot twists.”
― Shelf Awareness “A blisteringly exciting ingenious thriller with an utterly chilling killer.” ―The People (UK) “An oh so clever hook for an oh so clever, gripping book. Thirteen is courtroom drama at its finest, blended with page-turning twists and characters you can't get enough of. Steve Cavanagh is the John Grisham for a new generation. Slick, thrilling and unique, Thirteen is my favorite read of the year.” ―Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author “Steve Cavanagh delivers Grisham-on-steroids courtroom drama.” ― Irish Independent “Smart and original. This is a belter of a book. ” ―Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author “A great hook and the book lives up to it!” ―Ian Rankin, New York Times bestselling author

About the Author

Steve Cavanagh is the international award-winning author of the Eddie Flynn novels. His debut novel, The Defense , was nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Thriller of the Year, and The Plea won the Prix Polar Award for Best International Novel. Steve is still a practicing lawyer (someday he’ll get the hang of it) and co-host of the chart-topping podcast Two Crime Writers And A Microphone. He has been involved in several high-profile civil rights cases, his Eddie Flynn novels have been published in over twenty countries, he’s married with two young children, and in his spare time he is mostly asleep.