Remain Silent
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4.0 • 70 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR
AN UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘I'm so impressed I want to tell everyone… Police procedural with real imagination and heart, and a marvellous lightness of style and wit’ PHILIP PULLMAN
A TRAGIC DEATH. A TOWN FILLED WITH SECRETS.
A NAMELESS BODY
A young man is found hanging from a tree, with nothing to identify him.
NO LEADS TO FOLLOW
Was he driven to suicide, or was he silenced? Somebody knows, but they’re not saying.
WHO’S NEXT?
With potential witnesses too scared to talk to her, can DI Manon Bradshaw discover the truth before more innocent people die?
Reviews
‘Steiner combines a compelling plot with chilling social commentary’ Sunday Times
‘Wonderful… a twisting mystery of modern Britain’ Mail on Sunday
‘My favourite fictional detective… a writer whose characters you’ll miss after you turn the final page’ Daily Express
‘Taut and intelligent…a portrait of a very real woman, one for whom the job isn’t everything, but who isn’t fulfilled by motherhood either’ Observer
‘An ideal protagonist for our times’ Guardian
“My favourite new detective… deeply enjoyable” Sunday Express
‘Her best yet, which is saying something’ INDIA KNIGHT
‘So spot-on about love, relationships, middle-age, being a woman. The plot … broke my heart’
MARIAN KEYES
‘Brilliantly gripping… Manon Bradshaw is one of my favourite literary creations of all time. I’m so envious of Susie’s talent. Her writing is truly without parallel’
LUCY FOLEY
‘Hurrah for DI Manon Bradshaw in all her tender, outrageously rude, insightful and flawed magnificence… Perfect. Loved it’
FIONA BARTON
‘Made me laugh, kept me guessing till the end and made me care long after I’d closed the book. No one writes crime fiction like Susie Steiner: Agatha Christie as scripted by Victoria Wood or Alan Bennett’
ERIN KELLY
‘Addictive, intelligent, funny and humane. I’m pathetically desperate for more’
CHARLOTTE MENDELSON
‘Brilliant; I cherished every page. Funny, tender, wise, angry and completely gripping, this book is a joy. Manon is a glorious heroine and Susie Steiner is a writer beyond compare’
JANE CASEY
‘Susie Steiner is a genius … heartbreaking and hilarious, profound and page-turning, this book contains multitudes’ LUCIE WHITEHOUSE
‘Funny, and sad, and astonishingly smart’
KATHERINE HEINY
‘Remain Silent is as twisty, as riveting and as well written as her previous two appearances’ LISSA EVANS
About the author
Susie Steiner began her writing career as a news reporter first on local papers, then on the Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph and The Times. In 2001 she joined the Guardian, where she worked as a commissioning editor for 11 years. Her first novel, Homecoming was described as 'truly exceptional' by the Observer.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The complicated but very relatable Manon Bradshaw is rapidly becoming one of our favourite characters in crime fiction. This third novel in Susie Steiner’s series finds the Cambridgeshire detective investigating a suicide that looks more suspicious the deeper she probes. Like the previous two books in the series, Remain Silent captivated us on multiple levels. It’s a twisting, pulse-raising thriller that sensitively explores the hot-button topic of immigration. And it’s also a tale that delves further into Bradshaw’s home life, drawing a witty and sharply observed portrait of the chaos of raising a family.
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.
Customer Reviews
Remain silent
I read and enjoyed the first two books in this series, but I’m afraid I struggled to finish this one. I found Manon to be boring, all the long passages about her chaotic life and the self disgust. I had 3 kids in 5 years and ran a business so all of the pathetic whining on about the state of her house, her body and her relationship just didn’t ring true. As if somebody with no experience of any of these things was writing it having done very focussed research. I’m probably totally wrong on that but it’s the impression I was left with. So I’ll skip the rest of this series and try other books by this author. As previously stated I really liked the first of these books.
Remain silent
Too much middle aged angst, not enough action, difficult to get into.