In Belfast, Northern Ireland, memories of the city's troubled history haunt every street corner, but for one tortured soul, the incredible violence in his past is also his most cherished legacy.
At the beginning of Stuart Neville's
The Final Silence (Soho Crime | today, October 28th, 2014) Rea Carlisle-daughter of influential Stormont politician Graham Carlisle-has inherited a house from an uncle she never knew. It doesn't take her long to clear out the dead man's remaining possessions, but one of the upstairs rooms remains stubbornly locked. When Rea finally forces it open, she discovers inside a chair, a table, and a leather-bound book, its pages filled with a host of chilling mementos, locks of hair, fingernails: a catalogue of victims.
Horrified, Rea wants to go straight to the police but her father intervenes. Graham Carlisle has worked too hard to get where he is just to have his brother's twisted legacy ruin his own. Thwarted by her father, Rea turns to the only person she can think of: disgraced police inspector Jack Lennon, a man who also happens to have briefly been her lover.
But Lennon somehow finds himself the #1 suspect in a murder investigation led by one of the force's toughest cops (and one of the best new characters in crime fiction) DCI Serena Flannagan. The suddenness of the murder and his implication in it, coupled with the story Rea brought to him, leaves Lennon more than a little suspicious that the two are related and that he has once again found himself lining up against people with power and influence.
Stuart Neville has once again written a crime story that succeeds at discussing complex social issues while maintaining a thrilling, twisty plot that is sure to keep readers at the edge of their seat.
Stuart Neville 2014 US Tour
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 2
PHILIDELPHIA, PA
Noircon 2014
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4
NEW YORK, NY
Mysterious Bookshop
Time TBD (stock signing)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5
MILWAUKEE, WI
Mystery One Bookstore
7:00 PM
Reading and signing
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6
MADISON, WI
Mystery to Me Bookstore
7:00 PM
Reading and signing
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7
NEW YORK, NY
New York University, Glucksman Ireland House
6:00 PM
with Lee Child and Adrian McKinty
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8
RALEIGH, NC
McIntyre's Books
2:00 PM
Reading and signing
with Fuminori Nakamura
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9
SCOTTSDALE, AZ
Poisoned Pen Bookstore
2:00 PM
Reading and signing
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10
HOUSTON, TX
Murder by the Book
Time TBD
Reading and signing
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
ORANGE, CA
BookCarnival
7:00 PM
Reading and signing
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13-16
LONG BEACH, CA
Bouchercon 2014
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