The Plea

A gripping, twisty thriller – Ian Rankin
Lively, clever and enjoyable … Cavanagh writes vividly about American injustice … The constant action is interrupted only by absorbing courtroom scenes – The Times
The Plea reads like an idiosyncratic cross between Elmore Leonard and John Grisham, but bursts with its own individual flavour. – Financial Times
Fast-moving, low-punching, street-hustling adventure… Seriously superior airport read – Times Crime Book Club
Legal thrillers are my blind spot, but I’ll always make an exception for Steve Cavanagh. Quite simply, THE PLEA is one of the most purely entertaining books you’ll read this year. It’s a blast – John Connolly
In the crowded field of legal thrillers, Steve Cavanagh stands head and shoulders above the competition, with his skilfully plotted, action-packed and big-hearted Eddie Flynn novels … highly intelligent, twist-laden and absolutely unputdownable – Eva Dolan
A cleverly constructed legal thriller combined with a classic locked-room mystery. Eddie Flynn is fast becoming one of my favourite fictional heroes and Cavanagh one of my favourite thriller writers – S.J.I. Holliday
Raymond Chandler could have created Eddie Flynn. THE PLEA is Phillip Marlowe and Michael Connolly’s Mickey Haller combined, with a bit of Jim Thompson’s THE GRIFTERS thrown in. A superb read with a main character destined to be one of the most talked about in crime fiction – Howard Linskey
One of the most breathtakingly exciting crime novels I’ve read this year, a gripping combination of courtroom drama, locked-room mystery and conspiracy theory. – Morning Star
The Plea is explosive, nail-bitingly tense and hilarious by turns; once I started, I just kept reading, and could hardly bear to put it down. Eddie Flynn has the potential to become one of the stars of courtroom drama, and I for one can’t wait to see what he will get up to next. – Lizzie Hayes
Every so often, a book comes along that makes me giddy! …Deception, fraud, murder. THE PLEA has it all, and as usual, Steve Cavanagh has written an absolute ripper of a novel! – Bibliophile Book Club
If you don’t normally read court room dramas, you must make an exception. These books are just full of intelligent wheeling and dealing. Top notch storytelling… Superb, in a ‘I must not move a muscle til I have finished this book’ way. Eddie Flynn, you beauty! – Northern Crime
The jacket blurb describes The Plea as this year’s must-read thriller. Based on what’s between the covers there’s little reason to argue with this statement. This is a well-written and pacy page-turner… This is a thoroughly enjoyable thriller and it would be a surprise if, in a few years’ time, Steve Cavanagh wasn’t a huge name in the industry. – Crime Fiction Lover
Pretty perfect really, a story you can enjoy on many levels.Overall a WHOLE load of fun. Head clutching, breathless, edge of the seat fun. More please. Highly Recommended. – Liz Loves Books

Steve Cavanagh has sold over a million copies of his novels in the UK alone and over four million worldwide. His third novel, The Liar, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year 2018. Thirteen won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2019. Twisted, Fifty-Fifty, The Devil’s Advocate, and The Accomplice were all Sunday Times Top 10 bestsellers, and his three most recent books—Kill For Me Kill For You, Witness 8, and Two Kinds of Stranger—were all Sunday Times Top 5 bestsellers.

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