The Silent Man by David Fennell – Jen Med’s E-book Critiques

As we speak it’s over to Mandie for her overview of The Silent Man by David Fennell. I’ve actually loved this sequence of books and Mandie has been having enjoyable enjoying catch up. You possibly can learn my overview of the guide right here. Right here’s what it’s all about:

Concerning the E-book

A father is murdered at midnight in his London house, his head wrapped tightly in tape, a crude unhappy face penned over his facial options. However the sufferer’s solely baby is left alive and unhurt on the scene.

Met Police detectives Grace Archer and Harry Quinn have extra quick issues. Infamous gangster Frankie White has positioned a goal on Archer’s again, and there’s nobody he gained’t hurt to get to her.

Then a second household is murdered, leaving younger Uma Whitmore as the one survivor. As soon as once more the sufferer’s face is discovered wrapped and inked.

With a serial killer at massive, DI Archer and DS Quinn should keep alive lengthy sufficient to seek out the connection between these seemingly random victims. Can they do it earlier than one other baby is made an orphan?

Mandie’s Ideas

The Silent Man is the third guide within the DI Grace Archer and DS Harry Quinn sequence and its one which sees Grace and people near her at risk as private points with a criminal offense household come to a head whist she is coping with a case the place the victims who’ve their heads taped up with a tragic face penned on  the tape, what they cant work out is why these individuals had been focused or who’s committing the murders. The one factor they’ve in frequent is the truth that the kids had been left unhurt.

After previous dealings with prison Frankie White that noticed his grandson killed, Grace now has a goal on her again, a incontrovertible fact that she has been made conscious of. What she doesn’t know is who or when the assault on her will happen and when it does, she is shocked as to who instigates it. If that isn’t sufficient, she is coping with her grandfather in hospital after he suffers a stroke and the puzzling case that she is investigating. All through the guide there are additionally chapters advised from the angle of a younger boy who’s clearly each mentally and bodily abused by his alcoholic father and you might be left to work out who that boy is now out of all of the potential suspects which are woven expertly into the story. While you can’tforgive what they do in maturity, it offers the reader an perception into the killer and is extra disturbing than the precise crimes however are nonetheless dealt with with sensitivity with no must sensationalise for the sake of a narrative.

While the murders are disturbing, they don’t seem to be grotesque with the victims smothered to dying with tape however no different seen indicators of rage in opposition to them. The assaults are effectively deliberate and clearly silent as the kids within the premises are unhurt and undisturbed which leads them to consider that there needs to be a particular purpose for the killing if solely they may work it out.Grace continues to be very feisty and refuses to let the menace in opposition to her cease her and her crew from investigating the case, however it’s that menace that additionally reveals simply how shut the crew is and the way they’ve one another’s backs.

The Silent Man is billed because the final in a trilogy however because the creator has hinted that this isn’t the final we’ll see of DI Grace Archer and I for one am happy about that as I’d like to see what occurs subsequent for her now that the menace from Frankie White is lastly over and if she lastly can get previous all that has occurred to her.

Concerning the Creator

I used to be born and raised in Belfast earlier than leaving for London on the age of eighteen with £50 in a single pocket and a dog-eared copy of Stephen King’s The Stand within the different. I jobbed as a chef, waiter and bartender for a number of years earlier than beginning a profession in writing for the software program trade. I’ve been working in Cyber Safety for fifteen years and am a fierce advocate for info privateness.