Thirteen: The serial killer isn't on trial. He's on the jury (Eddie Flynn Series)

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Eddie's close friend, Judge Harry Ford, takes over the trial after the health issues of the previous judge. The colourful Southern PR savvy prosecuter for hire, Art Pryor, has never lost a case, and with the support of his formidable expertise, confidently believes that Solomon will be convicted. Eddie knows that he has been recruited as the fall guy should he fail to prove that the NYPD has tampered with critical evidence, a dollar bill with the DNA of a convicted killer from the past, Richard Pena, and the DNA of Solomon. Eddie hires ex-FBI Harper to be his investigator, and this leads to an FBI agent, Delaney, who believes there is a serial killer whose MO includes leaving behind a specially marked dollar bill on the victim, but has escaped detection because he ensures someone else is always convicted for the murders. Could this provide a viable route to save Solomon by introducing another suspect? However, Delaney is refusing to testify and Eddie has a problem he could not have imagined, the killer is on the jury, ideally placed to ensure that a guilty verdict prevails. I loved the inclusion of the juror’s profiles. This allowed the reader to feel like part of the investigation. I think this is what fully pulled me in as a reader. I felt like I had become totally invested in the story and I was eager to see the story through to its conclusion. It provided you with the pieces of knowledge – ranging from the jurors’ profiles to information on jury dynamics – you need to start untangling the mystery. As I've come to expect from Richard K. Morgan, non-white, non-male and non-straight characters are very well represented in this story. It is positively refreshing to see capital-s Speculative Fiction finally write stories that actually featrure the people who are likely to populate the world of the future. As these characters deal with their relationship to Carl, each other and themselves they each explore the difference between how they believe they should relate to Carl, the world and themselves, and ultimately have to discover for themselves where the line between limbic imperative and imprinted behavior lies. Carl has postcoital conversation with a colleague who inherited a geneset called "bonobo", designed to make women more overtly sexual: There is plenty of action, and lots of twists and turns. I had a zillion questions bouncing around in my brain as I read...who? how? why? what? how? how? how? And they were all answered. I’ve been hearing how amazeballs Thirteen is since it was first published in 2018. Someone posts in a book forum seeking recs for mind-blowing legal thrillers… then someone inevitably replies that this is the Must Read solution. The only problem is that there are three books that lead up to it. Are they also Must Reads?

Where the other books I've read by Morgan play in the space between then and now, in the gap between what you remember, what other people remember and those intersections today, this book plays in the social space between people and their perceptions of each other in the here and now. This is not another "frozen caveman wakes up and hilarity ensues" story. This book takes the old joke "Stress is the feeling created when the mind overrides the body's desire the choke the shit out of some asshole who deserves it" and treats it with respect, thoughtfullness and integrity. Carl is not a neolithic, thoughtless killing machine. Like all of Richard's characters, he has depth and breadth that keep this character driven story moving along at a fast clip. 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. Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award". IMC/Library. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017 . Retrieved 22 August 2017.

It’s the murder trial of the century. And Joshua Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house – and to be sure the wrong man goes down for the crime. Because this time, the killer isn’t on trial. He’s on the jury. Publisher’s Synopsis Joshua Kane is a Serial Killer. He is not who or what he seems. Little does anyone know that Kane has gotten himself a seat on Bobby Soloman’s jury. For what purpose exactly? Ha. I’m afraid I can’t say. What I can say is that I hope I never meet anyone like Kane. But there’s someone on his tail. Former-conman-turned-criminal-defense-attorney Eddie Flynn doesn’t believe that his movie-star client killed two people. He suspects that the real killer is closer than they think – but who would guess just how close? Book Review However, pulling the strings is a serial killer who is highly intelligent. Extremely organised. Socially adept. Manipulative and intent on killing the American dream for the victims he chooses. Not just the ones he kills but the ones he sends down for his crimes. A man who relishes in emotional sadism and extreme violence, a character I love in thrillers – the deliciously evil kind!!!

The murder trial of the century is here. A ruthless prosecuted. A brilliant defense lawyer. A defendant with a secret, and a serial killer on the jury. My only real criticism is that the two narrators’ voices were mostly indistinguishable. Both used the same phrases, including the same incorrect grammar. That is only thing I can think of that would have improved this book for me. This isn't believable but it’s fun as hell. Eddie Flynn was a con artist before he was a lawyer. He’s a great main character, full of observant remarks about everyone else, sharp as hell, able to see connections that others miss. And Kane is one creepy villain. He can’t feel, in either the real or figurative sense.

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Can Flynn save Bobby Solomon? A man convicted of killing his wife and her supposed lover, at the stars home. With evidence in abundance and a corrupt policeman at hand to ensure the conviction lands, a not guilty verdict seems highly unlikely with DNA found at the scene, the murder weapon with the accused fingerprints and eye witnesses claiming they saw Solomon enter the building at the time of the murder. This is the celebrity murder trial of the century and the defence want one man on their team: con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn.