They were Hollywood's hottest power couple. They had the world at their feet. Now one of them is dead and Hollywood star Robert Solomon is charged with the brutal murder of his beautiful wife. 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 And Kate is the new (professional) beginning I’m talking about here. Given the detail and care Cavanagh gives her character, I figured she’d either get her own series, or be a more prominent player in Eddie’s life moving forward. Seeing how Kate progressed in this book — standing up to the sexist bullshit at her firm, before she steals Alexandra from under her boss’s nose is a thing of beauty, and yes, I was #TeamKate all the way.

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But the sisters… I think these sisters would be the very picture of chalk and cheese — Alexandra is accomplished, put together and hates her sister. Sofia is fragile, and emotionally spent and hates her sister. So who is the killer? That is the question isn’t it? It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over th 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. Alexandra Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She believes her sister killed him, and that she is still in the house with a knife.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. Book Group conclusion was it’s a easy beach type read, with some liking it a lot more than others who got fed up with the twist and turns. Group review 6 out of 10 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 And then there’s the ending… Yeah, I’m going to stop writing here because there’s I will be gushing, and letting things slip if I don’t.

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Sofia and Alexandra both find their father’s dead body in his house, with enough evidence for the DA to be happy if one of them gets put away for the murder. Eddie isn’t going up against the DA here; he’s going up against the killer, which he’ll say is Alexandra, while her lawyer, Kate, will say it’s his client, Sofia who is the murderer.Every time I think I had caught the identity of the murderer, the very next chapter makes me rethink my choice. This happens almost throughout the book. 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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Steve Cavanagh is the bestselling author of the Eddie Flynn novels and standalone thrillers. In 2018 The Liarwon the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for crime novel of the year. In 2019 Thirteen won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the year 2019. All of his novels have either been nominated for awards, or have won awards internationally.

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The supporting cast are suitably helpful in a pondering way in pitting their wits against a revealed strategic mastermind and the rest are regular stereotypes that assist in making Fifty Fifty an engaging lightweight read. You don’t review books long before you come across the name Steve Cavanagh. The name is synonymous with the Thriller genre and if you haven’t read anything penned by this ingenious man, then why not? Fifty-Fifty is his new offering. 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 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. 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.”

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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 Sisters When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to secure Child as his client and force him to testify against the firm.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. I could sympathize with her when she was poorly treated by her boss. I could sympathize with her when she was joked around by her male colleagues.