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A Silent Death

By: Peter May
Narrated by: Peter Forbes
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**FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**
**'A TERRIFIC WRITER' MARK BILLINGHAM**
**PETER MAY: OVER 4.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE**

Set in Southern Spain, A Silent Death is the scorching new thriller from worldwide bestselling author of The Lewis Trilogy, Cast Iron and I'll Keep You Safe.

A SILENT VOW

Spain, 2020. When expat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge by destroying the policewoman.

A SILENT LIFE

Cristina's aunt Ana has been deaf-blind for the entirety of her adult life: the victim of a rare condition named Usher Syndrome. Ana is the centre of Cristina's world - and of Cleland's cruel plan.

A SILENT DEATH

John Mackenzie - an ingenious yet irascible Glaswegian investigator - is seconded to aid the Spanish authorities in their manhunt. He alone can silence Cleland before the fugitive has the last, bloody, word.

Peter May's latest bestseller unites a strong, independent Spaniard with a socially inept Scotsman; a senseless vendetta with a sense-deprived victim, and a red-hot Costa Del Sol with an ice-cold killer.

©2020 Peter May (P)2020 Quercus Editions Limited Crime Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Exciting
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This is my first book by this author. What struck me immediately was the quality of the writing. The author seems to love the process of writing and is not simply aiming to get the story out. We get wonderful descriptions of scenes, using alliteration and (I confess), words that I had to look up!

In outline our main character is John MacKenzie from the British police, who gets sent to Spain to bring back the captured criminal Jack Cleeland. Unfortunately the prisoner escapes from the Spanish police before he can be handed over, so John Mackenzie ends up assisting the Spanish police to find and re-capture him.

This is much more than just a police investigation, we delve into the personal lives of both John Mackenzie and some of the Spanish police. John Mackenzie for example is brilliant academically but socially awkward and likely on the autistic spectrum. Interestingly, quite a bit of the story is told from the perspective of "Anna" who is deaf-blind. That really was a feat of writing on behalf of the author. I wonder if he has some special insight into the world of the deaf-blind.

A good suspense thriller angle too, as we're aware of people being under threat, perhaps more than they realise themselves and we feel for them as we sit metaphorically on the edge of our seats.

It doesn't quite make 5 stars for me simply because I'm not that fond of police investigations - although it is a very good police investigation, and good descriptions of life in Spain. Peter Forbes narrates really well, so good that I was hardly aware of him.

The author has a way with words

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The author is adept at creating the atmosphere and place through illuminating descriptions of the landscape and weather. His characters seem like real people with day-to-day problems and not all the honourable characters are likeable, notably Christina, the police detective at the centre of the story . I enjoyed and was gripped by the story. I marginally prefer the Lewis Trilogy but that's mainly because the location are familiar to me.
The narrator is excellent. I don't speak Spanish but his renditions sounded authentic.

Atmospheric and gripping

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Brilliant story crammed with glorious detail and characters. I love the word coruscate which May uses in a lot if not all his books. Narrated by Forbes it’s poetic

May and Forbes never disappoint

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Loved the narrator voice first class.
Peter Mays books are so enthralling loved every book I've listened to.

Brilliant

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Gripping from the opening paragraph to to the goodbyes . Don’t you just love Peter May and peter Forbes . No sooner finished this than longing for the next.

Linda

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