Name: Remain Silent (Manon Bradshaw, Book 3)
ISBN: 9780008273828

Susie Steiner

AN UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘I'm so impressed I want to tell everyone... Police procedural with real imagination and heart, and a marvellous lightness of style and wit’ PHILIP PULLMAN ‘A brilliantly gripping tale’ LUCY FOLEY

Remain Silent (Manon Bradshaw, Book 3)

An immigrant's mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth--a gripping crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, featuring a "delightful protagonist who deserves a place alongside other beloved literary detectives."* *Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Newly married and navigating life with a toddler as well as her adopted adolescent son, Manon Bradshaw is happy to be working part-time in the cold cases department of the Cambridgeshire police force, a job which allows her to "potter in, coffee in hand and log on for a spot of internet shopping--precisely what she had in mind when she thought of work-life balance." But beneath the surface Manon is struggling with the day-to-day realities of what she assumed would be domestic bliss: fights about whose turn it is to clean the kitchen, the bewildering fatigue of having a young child while in her forties, and the fact that she is going to couple's counseling alone because her husband feels it would just be her complaining. But when Manon is on a walk with her two-year-old son in a peaceful suburban neighborhood and discovers the body of a Lithuanian immigrant hanging from a tree with a mysterious note attached, she knows her life is about to change. Suddenly, she is back on the job, full-force, trying to solve the suicide--or is it a murder--in what may be the most dangerous and demanding case of her life.

A Manon Bradshaw Novel

Remain Silent

Lauren Attaway

Sometimes all it takes is reading about another person’s struggle to allow space for you to accept your own struggle. In the third book following Manon Bradshaw, Manon is really struggling. On the work front, she is investigating the death of an immigrant at a time when she feels like the entire country hates immigrants. At home, she is overwhelmed, exhausted, and just generally done. For me, in this book, the crime was not really of interest. It was visiting Manon, Davy, and the rest of the familiar faces again that kept my attention. I’ve been having a hard time focusing the last few weeks, so it was nice to go back to someone I felt like I knew.

Remain Silent (Manon Bradshaw, Book 3)

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