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2000s: It’s rather black and gruesome in the Black Country…
Silent Scream
What you need to know before your trail
Five figures gather round a shallow grave. A grave that each one has taken turns to dig. This had been part of their pact and now their secrets would be buried.
Years after this day, the Black Country is witness to what seems tp be a spate of horrific murders. The first victim? A local headmistress.
It’s when human remains are unearthed at a former children’s home, that D.I. Kim Stone realises with some horror that this murder spree started many years ago.
More victims, more of a desperate need to find the person responsible, but to do that Kim has to face the demons of her own past or it could all be too late.
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The graveside
“Five figures formed a pentagram around a freshly dug mound. Only they knew it was a grave. Digging the frozen earth beneath the layers of ice and snow had been like trying to carve stone but they’d taken turns.”
This cold dark place with secrets buried is a good start to a novel where digging up the past and burying secrets is the overall setting and tense atmosphere.
A derelict children’s home
There’s something especially morbid about the finding of bones at a children’s home and what that could mean. This is a creepy and chilling place now derelict and somewhat eerie since a professor has tried several times to get the site excavated but to no avail. Why would his requests be turned down time and time again? He wanted to see if he could find ancient coins but Kim like the reader becomes suspicious as to what this refusal really could mean.
A dark dark place
This is a novel of dark places and even darker situations. The Black Country it certainly is. This time the name suits the settings within.
The setting as well as the subject matter are dark and disturbing and there is more than a morbid sense of doom in the air. There are heartbreaking scenes, a real sense of despair as to why these events could happen and a horrific sense of reality. when the former staff turn up murdered as well….
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Susan:
There’s so much to say about this novel but to say too much will spoil the thrills and spills that you’ll encounter. This novel both spooked and fascinated me as and that grave scene is still giving me the chills. I was a bit scared of Kim at first – she’s not your usual DI in a crime novel that’s for sure. I mean she doesn’t take any nonsense and really pushes the boundaries of everything she comes across, racing past them even in her motorcycle of choice.She may have a hard exterior but she’s definitely the one to have on your investigation.
The whole atmosphere of this book – troubled teens, a former home and the victims of the past really comes back to haunt. Having Kim in charge with her own demons really adds a sense of grim reality to it all as she has the sense and the knowledge to get to the truth, however painful that might be.
This is a complex, twisty turny read but one which will keep you awake long into the hours until you finish. It’s not a book for putting down. Amidst the darkness there is many a shining light in the form of Kim, her ‘sidekick’ Bryant and their joined banter which makes this a novel of many different layers and shades.
There is a gem shining in the Black Country you see and this novel is it.
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