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

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Joshua Kane has been preparing for this moment his whole life. He’s done it before. But this is the big one.

The narrative occasionally reaches for a more nuanced understanding of genetics. The Variant Thirteens are brutally raised and trained to be killers, so there is some nurture in there too. And there are hints of free will: some thirteens are capable of love, start secret families, make long-term intelligent plans. Perhaps they're not all monsters? But the way the characters talk about it is so clunky. My gripe is not with the actual story, which I think is relevant and really good – it’s with the style. It reads very stark and clinical -- I like complex and emotional. Straight off I’m at a disadvantage. I want to root for the characters; I want to connect with them and feel what they feel, and when I don’t experience anything toward them, this has a huge influence on how much I enjoy a book.Celebrity Movie Star Robert Soloman has been convicted of murdering his wife Ariella Bloom and her lover, though he swears he’s innocent. The characters were so well developed. I loved Eddie Flynn and felt that Kane finally met his match. Flynn did so well in the courtroom. Kane just made me shiver. I thought it was very well written.

But if violent masculinity is no longer adaptive, then women who prefer violent men would have reduced reproductive success, and over time would be a smaller percentage of the population. It's also entirely plausible that violent tendencies could be peacefully bred out of the population over time (no lynching needed) if women who prefer nice guys have greater reproductive success. It doesn't make any sense for the love of the violent to be ubiquitous in females. If you like clever courtroom antics... Perry Mason moments if you will, then you’ll love this book! The courtrooms scenes were my absolute favorite! In your face is where this movie's aimed. It's a flash, brash piece of provocation about how young girls' sexuality becomes live - like exposed electric wire - earlier than we like to think and how we contrive simultaneously to deny it and to fetishise and commercialise it.This is one clever book. The author reminds me a lot of John Grisham, his earlier books. I love courtroom drama legal thrillers and I was tithe on the edge of my seat reading this one. I was hooked right from the beginning to the very end. 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. Como thriller judicial, funciona de maravilla. Su lectura es ágil y el entretenimiento está asegurado. A Eddie Flynn lo “conocí” en una novela corta: “The cross”, y ya me pareció interesante. Esta es la cuarta de la serie, así que tendré que seguir con las anteriores, ya que te deja con ganas. Tenemos a un asesino que a mí me ha recordado por momentos a Hannibal Lecter, aunque con menos dosis de sadismo, y a un abogado que antes de serlo fue delincuente, lo que utiliza en su provecho para sus tejemanejes judiciales, y por supuesto, con una vida familiar que se ha ido al garete, ¡faltaría más! Y como queda dicho, una trama que, sin ser demasiado exigentes, se puede leer de un tirón. Th1rt3en is a highly entertaining legal thriller and cat-and-mouse game. Despite a majority of this book taking place in the courtroom, it will have you on the edge of your seat. The story is told through alternating narrators, the serial killer, Joshua Kane, and the conman turned criminal defense attorney, Eddie Flynn. Both characters are well fleshed out, especially for a thriller. The author managed to do this in a way that did not slow down the story at all. What happened to Adam’s parents (or adopted parents) ? - They were in the hospital and injured, which is quite worrying, but there’s absolutely no mention of them at the end. I would expect a brief mention of them.