by Steve Cavanagh
DESCRIPTION
This riveting psychological thriller from Steve Cavanagh, author of Kill for Me, Kill for You, asks: What if the witness was more dangerous than the killer?
Something is wrong with Ruby Johnson.
A former resident of the ultra-elite Manhattan upper class, Ruby now works as a maid in the type of houses she used to live in. Unassuming, she sees everyone’s dirty secrets from the inside of their beautiful, renovated brownstones. But when Ruby witnesses a murder, she has wicked plans in mind that don’t involve telling the authorities the truth.
Eddie Flynn, streetwise ex con-artist-turned-defense attorney, is the only lawyer in New York City willing to take on hopeless cases. And none is more hopeless than John Jackson’s—the gun that killed his neighbor found, with Jackson’s DNA, in his own home. Flynn and his unconventional team will need to use every trick they know to keep an innocent man from being locked up. But to save his client’s life, Eddie must first protect his own, as the scariest organized criminals in the city are out for his head.
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MY THOUGHTS
Witness 8 is another exceptional legal thriller in the Eddie Flynn series. In this latest installment, Eddie’s case takes on a different flavor. A woman has been murdered, and there appears to be a reliable witness. The man on trial is John Jackson, and Eddie believes he is innocent. But with the evidence stacked against John, the police have little reason to look elsewhere.
Enter Ruby Johnson. Ruby is a nanny and maid for the wealthy elite on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Because she is working class, she is essentially invisible to her wealthy clients. But when she witnesses the murder of her neighbor, she does something rather unusual. She takes the murder weapon and uses it to frame John Jackson, a respected pediatric neurosurgeon and one of her clients, for the murder.
If Eddie is going to use his skills as a former con artist and talented defense attorney, he will have to prove John’s innocence while also figuring out the enigmatic Ruby. This is no easy situation for Eddie, especially as he gets to know Ruby. She has a tragic past, and while her stories may initially seem believable, the more Eddie talks to her, the more he begins to doubt her.
What makes this story different from the others in the series is Ruby. She is the puppeteer pulling the strings, and she proves to be a formidable opponent for Eddie. The fact that Ruby is manipulative makes her an especially interesting adversary because manipulation is something Eddie knows all too well from his days as a con artist.
Cavanagh has created a battle of wits between two people who know exactly how to manipulate a situation - and watching Eddie try to outsmart Ruby is what makes Witness 8 such a page-turner.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
All of his novels have either been nominated for awards, or have won awards internationally.
He is a former lawyer, and was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he still lives.
