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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
hopeful
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A bit too focussed on the personal lives of the characters for my liking - personally I prefer the mystery of the crime more than the character stories.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse, Racism, Xenophobia
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Trafficking, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Infertility, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Deportation
‘If I can’t do my job, I’m not anything..I am the job’ , Manon declares at one point when her job appears to be in jeopardy. Herein lies the success of Steiner’s detective, Manon. Manon isn’t just her job, she is a fully realised character with her troubled personal life spilling over into her work and her current investigation spilling over into her home life. This frequently creates a tension for the reader as the story switches between the two , pausing a narrative about cancer or one about a young girl being trapped. Manon has been one of my favourite detectives since I first encountered her in Missing Presumed. She is quite simply so beautifully envisaged she just walks out of the pages and with each book Manon has developed and grown as a character. In Remain Silent Manon’s household now includes a partner with health issues and two children with very different demands and her absolute love for them provides a warm undertow in choppy waters. Manon is in mid - life: analysing her life future , present and past under a cynical microscope. Her view of a jaded contemporary world is one that resonated greatly with me. The book starts with a dead body, that of an Eastern European migrant worker - suicide or murder? Manon must investigate. The case leads Manon and her sidekick, Davy, to parts of rural Cambridgeshire where tensions between Eastern European workers and the local population are high. The life of the workers is absolutely brutal and totally shocking, utterly bleak. Trapped by gangmasters in a foreign land where they are needed but not wanted. Then one of them is dead. Remain Silent is a brilliant read and it will make a brilliant film. I hope Manon will return.
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
There’s something so comfortable about falling back into a familiar series. Timely book.
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
This was my first book by the author and in this series. The description and cover really grabbed my attention, and the story didn’t disappoint at all.
I really enjoyed how the author has portrayed the main characters and how real and reliable are some of them. I love everything fiction but when an author brings to life so many real life traits, it’s always a bonus in my cards.
Immigration and human trafficking are always a hard topic, and as a person who lived surrounded by it most of my childhood life, it touched a few chords in me.
Loved all the twists and turns that the investigations took with each new chapter and, while i found the ending a bit too rushed, it made me want to check and add to my tbr list the previous books as well.
Very grateful to the publisher for my review copy.
I really enjoyed how the author has portrayed the main characters and how real and reliable are some of them. I love everything fiction but when an author brings to life so many real life traits, it’s always a bonus in my cards.
Immigration and human trafficking are always a hard topic, and as a person who lived surrounded by it most of my childhood life, it touched a few chords in me.
Loved all the twists and turns that the investigations took with each new chapter and, while i found the ending a bit too rushed, it made me want to check and add to my tbr list the previous books as well.
Very grateful to the publisher for my review copy.
Very readable and I love the detective Manon Bradshaw, her instincts, politics and life.
But that was all that spurred on my reading. This wasn't a kaleidoscope of viewpoints rotating around Manon, instead a bizarre narrative construction of Before/After stories of Lithuanian gang masters, exploitation and Fenland Britain First peopling the tale.
I felt this telling muted the great characters across the investigative team and dispersed its energy so I found it disappointing
But that was all that spurred on my reading. This wasn't a kaleidoscope of viewpoints rotating around Manon, instead a bizarre narrative construction of Before/After stories of Lithuanian gang masters, exploitation and Fenland Britain First peopling the tale.
I felt this telling muted the great characters across the investigative team and dispersed its energy so I found it disappointing
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced