The police identify a face through tracing his bank cards, which lead them to a petrol station where they gain security footage of a man who Ivy confirms as her kidnapper. Later, Mark reveals that he wishes he and Ivy could reunite with their miscarried child and his brother in Heaven. The defendant is Hollywood star Bobby Solomon; a heap of incriminating evidence has gotten him all but convicted of stabbing his wife and a security guard. I've been tracking Steve Cavanagh for a few years now and Thirteen is his best, a dead bang beast of a book that expertly combining his authority on the law with an absolutely great thrill ride.

He has been involved in several high-profile civil rights cases, his Eddie Flynn novels have been published in over twenty countries, he's married with two young children, and in his spare time he is mostly asleep. He shows her the wardrobe which has stuff from their old house, and she sets it up to look like the old one.Cavanagh sets a cracking pace as he switches between Flynn's perspective and that of the murderer in a genuine, read-in-one-sitting page-turner. Carne and Merchant try to find a way to ensure her safety, but have underestimated Mark White, putting themselves in danger.

The police find a passport photo of Ivy and hair on the kidnapper's bed, from which they deduce that she has lied about not being let out of the cellar.His debut novel, The Defense, was nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Thriller of the Year, and The Plea won the Prix Polar Award for Best International Novel.