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| Let the Dead Speak |
Jane Casey has a thing or two for realistic police procedurals. She did it effortlessly with
The Stranger You Know, and she has done it again with
Let the Dead Speak, reaffirming the bitter truth that most assaults, rapes and even murders are committed by someone the victim knows. Thus when eighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns home early from her short stay with her dad, she is shocked to discover her mom missing, with blood splatters as the lone indication that something had gone real wrong while she was away. No one, including the police, have a convincing explanation for what happened, and with no body to account for, it becomes more than a painstaking chore for Maeve Kerrigan, newly promoted as a Detective Sergeant, and her homicide team to sift through misleading testimonies and outright falsehoods to arrive at the answer. Casey's latest is a taut intricate suspenser bolstered by well fleshed-out characters, but it's the tension she creates that pays off in the most admirable manner when all is revealed in a gasp-inducing climax. Worth a read!
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