Known for his fast-paced legal thrillers, Steve Cavanagh discusses his writing career and the latest book in the Eddie Flynn series, Two Kinds of Stranger. Internet celebrity Elly Parker had everything – perfect husband, perfect home, perfect job – until a betrayal causes her to lose it all, with millions of people watching.

When a seemingly random encounter plunges her into danger, she turns to conman turned trial lawyer Eddie Flynn, who must take on a case where nothing is what it seems.

Join Steve in conversation with fellow crime writer Anthony J Quinn to explore what makes a page-turner.

Meet the writers

Steve Cavanagh has sold over a million copies of his novels in the UK alone and over four million worldwide. 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. Twisted, Fifty-Fifty, The Devil's Advocate and The Accomplice were all Sunday Times Top 10 bestsellers and his three most recent books - Kill For Me Kill For You, Witness 8 and Two Kinds of Stranger - were all Sunday Times Top 5 bestsellers.

Anthony J Quinn’s ten novels have received critical acclaim from The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Express, Der Spiegel, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sunday Herald, The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. His debut novel Disappeared (Head of Zeus, 2014) was a Daily Mail crime novel of the year and a Sunday Times best novel of the year. It was also shortlisted by the book critics of the Washington Post, the LA Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle for a Strand Literary Award in the US and longlisted for the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year in the UK. His crime novels have been chosen by the Irish Times and the Irish Independent as one of their best crime novels of the year in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022. He has written about crime fiction academically and critically in numerous news articles and has spoken extensively on this subject at events and festivals in Britain, Ireland and Europe. He lectures in creative writing at Queen’s University Belfast and has held writer-in-residence posts at Libraries Northern Ireland and in County Cavan. He also teaches creative writing and mentors at the Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, and the Prison Arts Foundation.