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LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR

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 TRAGIC DEATH. A TOWN FILLED WITH SECRETS.
A NAMELESS BODY
A young man is found hanging from a tree, with nothing to identify him.

NO LEADS TO FOLLOW
Was he driven to suicide, or was he silenced? Somebody knows, but they’re not saying.

WHO’S NEXT?
With potential witnesses too scared to talk to her, can DI Manon Bradshaw discover the truth before more innocent people die?

Publisher Review

'My favourite fictional detective... a writer whose characters you'll miss after you turn the final page' Daily Express 'Taut and intelligent...a portrait of a very real woman, one for whom the job isn't everything, but who isn't fulfilled by motherhood either' Observer 'So spot-on about love, relationships, middle-age, being a woman. The plot ... broke my heart' MARIAN KEYES 'Susie Steiner takes the pulse of our times whilst weaving a brilliantly gripping tale ... Manon Bradshaw is one of my favourite literary creations of all time. I'm so envious of Susie's talent. Her writing is truly without parallel' LUCY FOLEY 'Hurrah for DI Manon Bradshaw in all her tender, outrageously rude, insightful and flawed magnificence. Flew through it, laughing out loud at her gags. And then cried at the end. Perfect. Loved it' FIONA BARTON 'Remain Silent made me laugh, kept me guessing till the end and made me care long after I'd closed the book. No one writes crime fiction like Susie Steiner: Agatha Christie as scripted by Victoria Wood or Alan Bennett' ERIN KELLY 'Addictive, intelligent, funny and humane. I'm pathetically desperate for more' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON 'There's no-one to touch Susie Steiner for managing to combine a hugely gripping murder plot with utterly identifiable domestic life. I adore Manon Bradshaw - detective, wit, slob and mother - and Remain Silent is as twisty, as riveting and as well written as her previous two appearances' LISSA EVANS 'Brilliant; I cherished every page. Funny, tender, wise, angry and completely gripping, this book is a joy. Manon is a glorious heroine and Susie Steiner is a writer beyond compare' JANE CASEY 'Susie Steiner is a genius ... heartbreaking and hilarious, profound and page-turning, this book contains multitudes' LUCIE WHITEHOUSE 'Funny, and sad, and astonishingly smart' KATHERINE HEINY