The Silent Room
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Publisher Description
The Silent Room is the first tense police procedural in the thrilling Matthew Ryan series by Mari Hannah.
'Nobody understands the many faces of cops better than Mari Hannah' - Val McDermid
A security van sets off for Durham prison, a disgraced Special Branch officer in the back. It never arrives. En route it is hijacked by armed men, the prisoner sprung. Suspended from duty on suspicion of aiding and abetting the audacious escape of his former boss, Detective Sergeant Matthew Ryan is locked out of the manhunt.
Desperate to preserve his career and prove his innocence, he backs off. But when the official investigation falls apart, under surveillance and with his life in danger, Ryan goes dark, enlisting others in his quest to discover the truth.
When the trail leads to the suspicious death of a Norwegian national, Ryan uncovers an international conspiracy that has claimed the lives of many.
Continue the gripping crime series with The Death Messenger.
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This disappointing thriller from Hannah (the Kate Daniels series) opens on an exciting note, with the carjacking of a prison van in the north of England. The van's cargo, Det. Insp. Jack Fenwick, who's in custody for such offenses as concealing firearms in his garage, disappears. One of Fenwick's direct reports, Det. Sgt. Matthew Ryan, is convinced of his senior officer's innocence, but he's suspended because the "rubber heelers," the British equivalent of internal affairs, suspect him of helping Fenwick escape. Ryan is determined to find and clear Fenwick, which means unraveling the corruption case that Fenwick was looking into before the van incident. Unfortunately, this foreground story doesn't fully engage the reader's attention, in part because the plot is so convoluted and in part because Hannah's narrative technique exposition via interior monologue and an overwhelming number of asides robs the story of any real momentum. And the impetus for the case, Fenwick's corruption investigation, is murkier still, seriously undercutting the suspense.
