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200s: You return home and your mother is missing….what next?
Let the Dead Speak
What you need to know before your trail
Chloe Emery returns to her West London home to find her mother missing and the house covered in blood. Something bad has happened here but there is no sign of a body so just what has taken place?
London detective Maeve Kerrigan and the homicide team turn their attention to the neighbours. The ultra-religious Norrises are acting suspiciously; their teenage daughter and Chloe Emery definitely have something to hide. Then there’s William Turner, once accused of stabbing a schoolmate and the neighborhood’s favorite criminal. Is he merely a scapegoat, or is there more behind the charismatic facade?
With the police still not being close to finding the body, Maeve must piece together a patchwork of testimonies and accusations. Who is lying, and who is not? And soon Maeve starts to realize that not only will the answer lead to Kate Emery, but more lives may hang in the balance.
Travel Guide
Putney, London
On a residential street, Valerian Road in Putney to be precise, a daughter comes home to find carnage and her mother gone. This horrific scene is highlighted by the normalcy of what’s outside – a nice neighbourhood, net curtains (which might twitch but then don’t they all?), neighbours who either ignore each other or who know everything about everyone else or at least want to.
All of the neighbours here however have secrets – possibly motives for kidnapping or killing Kate Emery.The Norris family, William Turner and maybe more have secrets to share and no one wants to share them with each other let alone the police
But the police don’t seem to be in any hurry:
“We are murder detectives. By the time we turn up at a crime scene, by definition, nothing can be done to save anyone. So what’s the rush?”
But the rain is effective:
“Murder always attracted crowds, but the rain was better at dispersing them than any uniformed officer” “Fear hung in the air like smoke. Don’t think about it now. The facts came first. The emotions would come later.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Let the Dead Speak
Author/Guide: Jane Casey Destination: London Departure Time: 2000s
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