{"id":5376,"date":"2022-11-16T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:20:40","slug":"book-talk-cavanagh-s-the-liar-is-another-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/book-talk-cavanagh-s-the-liar-is-another-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Cavanagh\u2019s \u2018The Liar\u2019 is another wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is not a spoiler. About halfway through Steve Cavanagh\u2019s \u201cThe Liar\u201d (2017, 327 pages in paperback), the man in the witness stand swears to tell the truth. Then he exclaims, \u201cMy name is Scott Barker. The lies have to stop.\u201d<\/p>

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I read my first mystery book before I started school. I know how crazy that sounds, but my maternal grandmother taught me to read and gave me vocabulary lessons every day. She belonged to the Book-of-the-Month Club, and recommended that month\u2019s selection, Erle Stanley Gardner\u2019s \u201cPerry Mason and the Case of the Careless Kitten.\u201d I still remember how Perry convinced the jury that his client was \u201cnot guilty.\u201d<\/p>

Therefore, I\u2019ve been reading murder mysteries for a very long time, and I\u2019ve never been so surprised as I was when the man in the witness stand continued his message to the court. So, I\u2019d have to put this, Cavanagh\u2019s third novel, in the top ten of that genre.<\/p>

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In this Eddie Flynn novel, Eddie \u2014 a former conman turned lawyer \u2014 is hired by Leonard Howell, a man who is experiencing the worst nightmare that any parent can have. His daughter Caroline has been kidnapped, she\u2019s been missing so long that she may be dead, but he\u2019s just received a ransom demand. Howell believes that Eddie, whose own daughter was kidnapped in a previous Cavanagh book, is the only man that he can trust. Besides, the kidnappers have set up a bait-and-switch operation, and it will take a former grifter to handle the situation.<\/p>

The bait is a two-million-dollar demand \u2014 a setup to fool the cops \u2014 and the switch is the real $10 million to be delivered to a different location at the same time. And, Howell doesn\u2019t have it. However, he\u2019s got insurance and a plan to scam the insurance company to get money and retrieve his daughter, whom he loves more than anything in the world. Of course, Eddie agrees to skirt the rules and help, believing that the plan will succeed in getting Caroline back and that he can then defend Howell\u2019s actions afterward.<\/p>

Along with everything else that\u2019s going on, Eddie is faced with a personal dilemma. He\u2019s served with a subpoena on behalf of unscrupulous lawyer Max Copeland. The subpoena pulls him into an old case that was lost by his good friend Harry Ford, now a superior court judge. If Copeland\u2019s claim that Harry mishandled the case is proved to be true, resulting in the erroneous incarceration of Julie Rosen for killing her own baby, Harry will be ruined.<\/p>

But there are more dangers and further complications ahead. The case that Eddie is handling in court is winding down, the clock is ticking, and the fate of several people rests heavily on Eddie\u2019s shoulders. To borrow a word invented by Stephen King, this book is unputdownable. I recommend it without reservation.<\/p>

Disfruta.<\/p>

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Puede contactar a Jim Glynn en j_glynn@att.net.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not a spoiler. About halfway through Steve Cavanagh\u2019s \u201cThe Liar\u201d (2017, 327 pages in paperback), the man in the witness stand swears to tell the truth. Then he exclaims, \u201cMy name is Scott Barker. The lies have to stop.\u201d \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 I read my first mystery book before I started school. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}