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Two Kinds Of Stranger

By Steve Cavanagh

SHE HELPED A PERFECT STRANGER. SHE DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS THE PERFECT KILLER…

Elly Parker had everything.
Perfect husband. Perfect apartment. Perfect friends and the perfect job.
As an internet celebrity – famed for her random acts of kindness – everyone knew it.
So when a betrayal causes her to lose it all, millions of people are watching.

But even at her lowest, Elly will always help someone in need.
Which makes her the perfect target for a sadistic game.
Because as she soon learns, you can never trust a stranger – and a seemingly random encounter plunges her into a nightmare worse than she ever imagined.

The only person she can turn to is conman turned trial lawyer Eddie Flynn, who must take on a case where nothing is what it seems. With the most cruelly ingenious mind manipulating events from the shadows, everyone is in danger – including Eddie and his family.

About Steve Cavanagh...

Steve Cavanagh is a Number One bestselling author in Ireland and a Top Five Sunday Times bestseller, having sold over a million copies of his novels in Ireland and the UK alone.

His eleven books have all been nominated for major awards and many are international bestsellers. 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. His last seven books were all Sunday Times Top 10 bestsellers.

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