If you want to spend your summer in the grip of a book so fiendishly hooky … twisty… thrilling … that you can’t put it down, Witness 8, the latest by Steve Cavanagh, dropped at the beginning of the month and it’s a killer.
With more than a million sales to his name, Belfast-born former civil rights lawyer turned bestselling, award-winning crime writer Steve is the author of courtroom thrillers that really sink their teeth in. Witness 8 stars Steve’s conman-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn in the story of a murder in an affluent part of New York, witnessed by nanny Ruby – who knows all the secrets of the families whose children she cares for, and has a dark agenda of her own.
‘I wanted an insider,’ says Steve. ‘Someone you wouldn’t normally notice – so, a nanny. I’m always interested in wealth, privilege and how social status can crumble. And certain streets in New York are just filled with millionaires. In New York, you can pass one street and it’s lined with Bentleys and BMWs and Ferraris, and you walk two blocks, and you’ll see the most horrendous destitution – so there’s a great contrast. And I wanted someone who hides in plain sight, a snake that crawls into your home. There’s