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From one of Australia's top crime novelists comes a tightly plotted mystery that follows a newspaper reporter's struggle to wrest his child from kidnappers, which results in a murder and a completely unpredictable climax.
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Review
Amazingly, Patricia Carlon's terrific crime novels weren't at first published in her native Australia; they were turned down, as an author's note tells us, because publishers there in the 1960s "didn't want anything but police procedural stuff." Luckily, the books were published in England, and now in America. Carlon is an absolute master of wringing every drop of suspense from a simple phrase or an exchange of glances--as good as Alfred Hitchcock at his best at showing us the skull beneath the suburban skin.
Crime of Silence starts out as a story of compassion: the father of a kidnapped child who was returned after a ransom was secretly paid, agrees to help another father in the same perilous situation. But as Evan Kiley, the reporter whose son has just been taken, begins to play on the guilt of businessman George Winton, you'll watch in growing horror (tinged with admiration at Carlon's skill) as the story changes into something much darker. A woman dies; a body is disposed of; lives are apparently linked. By the time you get to the chilling conclusion, you will most likely be eager for more of Carlon's unique brand of brilliance.
Other Carlon books available in paperback: The Running Woman, The Whispering Wall, The Souvenir. --Dick Adler
About the Author
Patricia Carlon was born in Wagga Wagga and now lives in Sydney. She has written fourteen crime novels. This is Crime of Silence's first publication in the United States.
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- PublisherSoho Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1569471312
- ISBN 13 9781569471319
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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