Book Synopsis:
Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful New Zealand crime writers, happily married and topping bestseller lists worldwide. They have been on the promotional circuit for years, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living.
So when their challenging seven-year-old son Zach disappears, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time…
Are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect crime?
Electrifying, taut and immaculately plotted, The Quiet People is a chilling, tantalisingly twisted thriller that will keep you gripped and guessing to the last explosive page.
The Quiet People is available in ebook and paperback now. You can purchase your copy using the links below.
My Review:
The Quiet People is a dark, compelling and hugely enjoyable read. The story is told in alternate chapters by Cameron who on paper seems a doting father and Rebecca the detective in charge of the case. This was very cleverly done as both characters are very likeable and I felt I really got to know them as I read, making it hard for me to choose which side I was on.
One of the things that most stands out about this book is the way the characters have to deal with trial by media, which we often see nowadays. I found it very interesting to explore this concept along with the characters and to see how it can effect the trial and the way the police work.
This book starts off slow but soon picks up pace until the tension is almost unbearable. There are lots of twists that kept me guessing so that just when I though I had figured it out something would happen to take the story in a completely new direction. The final twist was amazing and had me flipping back through the pages to reread the final chapters.
Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Orenda for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Paul is Christchurch born and raised, and other than a couple of years when he was living in London and bouncing around Europe a little, he’s always lived there. Paul wanted to write horror, and it was a few years in when he realised that crime – real life crime – is horror. When he made that connection, he turned to writing dark crime fiction, writing first The Killing Hour, and then The Cleaner, in his mid-twenties. Not long after that Paul sold his house and lived with his parents so he could write full time – a gamble that paid off a few years later when Random House signed him up. From that point on he’s written dark tales set in his home city, introducing Joe Middleton – the Christchurch Carver, and Melissa, and Theodore Tate, and Schroder, and Jerry Gray, among others to the world.
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