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Name: Two Kinds of Stranger
Series: Eddie Flynn #9
Author: Steve Cavanagh
Publisher: Headline
Format: Kindle
Genres: Adult, Legal, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Contemporary, Suspense
Spice Rating: None

Rating: Actual Rating, 6 stars!

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

Review:

The Eddie Flynn series is a connection of inter-connected stand alones, that can be read alone but I’d recommend reading them in order as characters reappear in later books and it’s nice to know the story behind them (though Cavanagh does recap them more often than not). This means that there may be spoilers for Eddie Flynn books 1 through 8 in my review, though spoilers for Two Kinds of Stranger, book 9, will be hidden as normal.

Eddie Flynn is no stranger to danger at this point. His team is no stranger to danger (I mean Harry was recently in a coma because of this work!). And his family, sadly, is no stranger to danger – though his ex-wife is trying to keep her daughter safe and away from the dangers, sadly they have a way of finding them… And we know all this, going in to any Eddie Flynn book. Yet, my heart can’t handle it when anyone of the team or family or Eddie are in said danger. It just can’t. I’ve grown so attached to these characters!

So imagine my surprise when there is not one case, but two cases going on in this story and one of them puts his family in danger – again. Honestly, I should learn to just read the blurb – but I have full trust in Cavanagh to tell me a good story, I don’t need to read the blurb to know he’s going to do that. But if I had, I wouldn’t have been so caught off guard by this!

We have less court room action for a good portion of Two Kinds of Stranger, which makes sense because with two cases on the go there is a lot that needs to be figured out before they can even go to court. Once again, we have a lot of POV’s (including the killer, which I love!! Never stop doing this, please, Cavanagh), and through these POV’s we get some new action, including Prison action which was a fun addition! Cavanagh has a great way of writing his POVs if you ask me – if they’re a reocurring POV, I never find myself lost as we jump from different characters, I always feel like I’m in the know and I’ve tracked what’s going on. His writing style is very easy like that, and I love that. It really let’s you focus on the thriller aspect of the book.

I don’t think I will ever dislike an Eddie Flynn book, but it does still surprise me when one of them has me screaming ‘NO FUCKING WAY’ or ‘WHAT THE FUCK’ when I finish one. And I know when that happens, that I’ve found another 6 star club member. Two Kinds of Stranger did that to me, all night. All night I was thinking about this after I finished it, and my number one statement was that fucking cliffhanger… I never go into an Eddie Flynn novel believing there is absolutely no way anything will go wrong and that they’ll win every case (though I absolutely hope they will) and this book… that cliffhanger… feels like a first. If you know, you know.

I unapologetically love these books, and so very often they’re rated 4 and above. I truly think if you like crime drama’s (think Law & Order, Criminal Minds…) then you should absolutely give this series a go. It’s excellent. Just be prepared to be so damn tense as you read them though… because Cavanagh does not mind shooting at his own characters.

“It means, we just found a defense.”