The Silent Appeal
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 3 Sept 2026
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- 12,99 €
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- Pre-Order
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- 12,99 €
Publisher Description
* THE HUGELY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE SMASH-HIT BESTSELLER, THE APPEAL *
'The pinnacle of modern crime writing' - IAN MOORE
'An absolute joy from cover to cover' - CHRIS BROOKMYRE
A New Play. Another Murder. A Town Full of Secrets...
It's a new theatrical season in Lower Lockwood, and the amateur thespians of the Fairway Players are starting rehearsals for their production of Agatha Christie's The Hollow. Despite troublesome new arrivals, countless petty squabbles and a gruesome accident with the lighting rig, surely this will be their greatest show to date?
But someone is hiding a devastating secret... and they won't make it to opening night. Could it be Sarah-Jane's sister, back in Lockwood after twenty years abroad? New member Lucas, whose shady business dealings may be his downfall? Or is it Issy, out of prison but still up to her old tricks?
Lawyers Charlotte and Femi must sift through the evidence to identify the victim and find out why the convicted murderer refuses to speak in their own defence... Will they uncover the truth in time? Will you?
'A superlative mystery' - ALEX PAVESI
'Be prepared to put life on hold' - J.M. HALL
'An absolute triumph' - ROSS MONTGOMERY
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Hallett's sly full-length return to the British village of Lower Lockwood (after the novella The Christmas Appeal), rookie attorneys Charlotte Holroyd and Femi Hassan gather evidence for an appeal on behalf of someone accused of another murder connected to the Fairway Players drama society. Digging through a mountain of emails, texts, and online chats to better understand the case, the attorneys piece together the Fairway Players' clashing personalities and petty power struggles—namely the conflict between housewife Sarah-Jane and her sister, Nicky-Rose Dearing, a talented director who abruptly abandoned her career before being welcomed to Lower Lockwood a little too warmly by Sarah-Jane's husband, Kevin MacDonald. As the players mount a production of Agatha Christie's The Hollow, Hallett presents a parade of possible victims and villains (readers don't know who died or who killed them), including recently acquitted murder suspect Issy Beck, lonely workaholic Fran Elroy-Jones, and shady new actor Lucas Stibson. Eventually, egos clash, affairs ramp up, and Charlotte and Femi struggle to separate genuine clues from red herrings. Though Hallett's epistolary structure has lost some of its freshness, she deploys it in service of a mystery as clever as any Dame Agatha ever devised. This will delight the author's fans.
