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The Silence

By: Katerina Diamond
Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
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Gail wakes in the middle of the night to everyone’s worst nightmare.

She can’t move, can’t speak and a stranger is standing over her. Then everything goes black.

Gail knows she didn’t dream it. Or him. But the police don’t believe her.

That was two years ago. She has tried to move on, forget what happened.

Until she meets his next victim.

This woman’s story is identical to hers. And the attack happened exactly one year later.

There is one week left until he will strike again.

Now the silence is broken, there is no telling what he will unleash…

A totally gripping and twisty crime thriller that will take your breath away. Fans of K. L. Slater and Rachel Abbott will be hooked from the very first minute.

Praise for Katerina Diamond:

GrippingOK!

‘A web of a plot that twists and turnsSun

HeartstoppingCrime Monthly

‘Diamond is the master of gripping literatureEvening Standard

©2023 Katerina Diamond (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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hmm not one of her best

Normally a massive fan of kd but this standalone book its not as good as the adrian/imogen series. Story is based around women getting raped and vengeance. I guessed the twist some hours before the end and the ending of the book was finished and done with in 10 mins... not amazing but worth a read

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Let down by narration and internal monologue

The story itself is a good concept but a lot of aspects of this book let it down.

A girl is raped and isn’t believed by police. The story is about the years following and how she wanted to get justice.

The majority of the book is internal monologue. Endless, repetitive thoughts. I had to skip forwards ultimately as there were minutes and minutes of just the same thing over and over- ‘I wonder whether I’ll see him again, I wonder if I’ll get revenge, I’m so cross nobody believes me’. This is constant throughout the book and interrupts conversations between characters.

This is a major issue, because, the narrator is extremely poor at distinguishing between characters. There is no way of knowing who is talking, who is saying what, what’s internal monologue. It’s very confusing at times and could’ve have been prevented by the narrator using different accents, tones etc like you’d usually expect from a narrator.

The police procedural element to the book is absolutely awful and clearly no research done. Cops calling one another by their rank when they’re the same rank (this does not happen, ever) and the suspect ‘signing a confession’?! This does not happen in England/ Wales.

The actual ‘whodunnit’ was obvious from early on, and revealed without much excitement.

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