Remain Silent
A Novel
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4.2 • 9 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The body of a young migrant is found hanging from a tree.
There are no signs of struggle. No indication that it is
anything other than a tragic suicide. Except for a note, pinned to the man’s
trousers, that reads “The dead cannot speak.”
A murder investigation begins with DI Manon
Bradshaw at the helm. But with the other migrants unwilling to talk to her, and
protests taking place on the streets, hatred is starting to drown out the
facts.
Can Manon uncover the truth before there's another victim?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Steiner's sluggish third novel featuring Det. Insp. Manon Bradshaw (after 2018's Persons Unknown), Bradshaw, an officer on the Cambridgeshire, England, police force, discovers the body of a young man hanging from a tree in the park. Pinned to the victim's trousers is a note in Lithuanian that translates as "The dead cannot speak"; a card that may be a driver's license identifies him as Lukas Balsys, a Lithuanian immigrant. Bradshaw and her partner, Det. Sgt. Davy Walker, investigate what they suspect is a murder made to look like a suicide. Flashbacks show Lukas and other Lithuanians lured by promises of work to England, where a fellow Lithuanian, Eidikus, soon has them catching chickens in a filthy warehouse and living in toxic houses with bedbug-ridden mattresses on the floor. Two other men are hanged, and another dies in the warehouse. Some humor and the loving exchanges between Bradshaw and her husband provide relief from the grim crimes, but the plot meanders slowly. Steiner has done better.
