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Silent Kill
by Jane Casey
I've become a huge fan of Jane Casey and discovered, thanks to the site Fantastic Fiction, that I had missed a few. This book is from 2014. Maeve Kerrigan is happily living with her hunky boyfriend, Rob, and still unsure of her working relationship with her partner and senior detective, DI Josh Derwent as part of one of the elite Murder Squads. He is abrasive and difficult and is carrying weight from his past as Maeve discovers in this book. She is a young Detective Constable who has risen quickly through the ranks. She is a combination of brains and beauty which makes her a figure of envy and snide remarks. She was born and raised in London, but her parents moved there from Ireland which, in the early books, made her an object of teasing. The book opens with Maeve and Rob at the wedding of a colleague. She is looking forward to the extra couple of days at a beautiful old inn that she and Rob have planned. However she is on call so she isn't drinking much to her dismay. Then the call comes. She and Josh have to leave the wedding and head back to London when they are called in to investigate the murder of a police officer. Soon police officers are being unexpectedly murdered. The investigators are unsure whether this is related to the shooting of a young black man or is it something else entirely. It turns out to be something else entirely with an ending that is shocking, somewhat comic and twisted. This book was shortlisted for the Irish Crime Novel Of The Year award at the time. I really enjoyed it. Maeve is an interesting character and Casey is an engaging writer.