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A New Thriller from Hull's answer to Ian Rankin
A CITY CAN’T KEEP ITS SECRETS FOREVER.
How far will Anna Stone, a disillusioned police officer on the brink of leaving her job, go to uncover the truth about her sister’s disappearance?
Approached by Luke Carver, an ex-Army drifter she’s previously sent to prison, he claims to have information which will help her. As the trail leads from Hull and the Humber’s desperate and downtrodden to its great and good, an unsolved murder twenty-five years ago places their lives in danger, leaving Stone to decide if she can really trust a man who has his own reasons for helping.
Praise for Nick Quantrill
“Hull’s answer to Ian Rankin.”Hull Daily Mail
“The other big star of the book is oft-maligned Hull, whose dour image gets an airbrushing." The Sun
“These are not ‘big’ crimes that he highlights, but ones that are more of a local variety; crimes that people like George Pelecanos examine.” Crimesquad.com
“Quantrill is the Hammett of Humberside.” Nudge.com
The Dead Can't Talk Gritty and tense thriller you can't put down edition by Nick Quantrill Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Police officer Anna Stone is troubled by the suicide of her sister years ago. In steps a former solider named Luke Carver with information to help her. Stone must determine if this ex-soldier, she once sent to prison can assist her into getting to the truth of her sisters death. Carver is framed for the murder of the woman in his apartment building, and they join forces to find out who is behind the killings. The investigation the two will take into Hull's past is filled with danger. Quantrill does a masterful job of introducing an assortment of characters (possible suspects), all with the possibility of being involved in the murders.This is my first book by Nick Quantrill, and I look forward to reading more of his work.Product details
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The Dead Can't Talk Gritty and tense thriller you can't put down edition by Nick Quantrill Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
This is the 4th book I have read by Nick Quantrill, and the best to date, it's great to see how his writing style has improved and this is a book I couldn't put down.
As usual with these books, it is based in Hull, and the descriptions of the streets and places ensure that you have a clear precise image in your head of the various locations.
I love the new characters he has introduced, Stone and Carver make a great double act and hopefully we will read about them again.
I read it in a day and a half, as I couldn't put the book down whilst on holiday, and the last 100 pages or so flew by.
The general consensus from fellow Quantrill fans (he had a growing fan base!) is please write quicker, we need more crime mysteries in Hull!
Well done Nick, a brilliant book.
The Dead Can't Talk is Nick Quantrill's fourth novel. Nick's first three novels - all examples of British crime fiction at its finest - featured private detective, Joe Geraghty, so it was always going to be something of a risk to branch out into new characters. Crime writer Howard Linskey recently made it work, and Nick Quantrill has made it work too.
Readers of Quantrill's work will know that the city of Hull plays a major part in his writing. Hull is to Quantrill as Edinburgh is to Rankin - the city itself becoming a character in its own right.
The Hull of the Geraghty novels still exists in The Dead Can't Talk, except Hull is now a city recently crowned the UK City of Culture. This being so, political machinations abound as the city readies itself for the spotlight. At the same time, a bye election - a shoe-in for prospective MP Graham Holdroyd - is attracting all sorts of attention.
Into this arena come Luke Carver - ex-military, recently released from prison, a man of means and determination, a man seeking a purpose - and Anna Stone, a police officer recently put on gardening leave for her an indiscretion at work, and the woman responsible for Carver's incarceration. Anna's sister's apparent suicide several years earlier has always haunted her. and now she has some time on her hands, she is determined to find the truth.
When Carver is framed for the murder of the woman across the hall of the shabby house he shares, Stone and Carver's paths cross once again - each with a truth to lay bare.
And then there is Graham Holdroyd - prospective MP - what of him and the secrets he holds?
As Carver and Stone delve into the murky past of the city, they uncover a web of lies and deceit that goes right to the heart city's establishment.
The Dead Can't Talk is written in Quantrill's distinctive clipped prose - the dialogue spot on, the story tight and brooding, a whole cast of characters weaving in and out of the story, each with their own secrets to guard.
As the different strands of the story are expertly pulled together, and the motives of each character comes to the fore, I was left with a degree of sympathy for each of them. And that is the beauty of Quantrill's writing. There are no good guys and there are no bad guys - just people. People who make mistakes, people who make errors of judgement, victims of birth, victims of fate, victims of circumstance.
In short, people who are real.
Quantrill does not judge. He simply writes. And that is why he is one of the few writers I have read everything of.
The Dead Can't Talk is a taught piece of British crime fiction that is another fantastic addition to the Quantrill canon, and I highly recommend it.
I struggled to like this book. I liked the story. I liked the characters. I liked the atmosphere. I even liked the short, staccato sentence style - when it could be followed.
There were basic grammar and editing errors e.g. repeated sentences that needed re-reading a number of times to see if a second character was repeating a sentence back, but no - it's just a proofing error.
Many times I had to go back to figure out who was talking, or where they were or who they were with because pronouns weren't matching or other basics. Here's one example (new paragraph)
"Stone checked out coverage of his afternoon event in Beverley, an affluent market town ten miles outside of Hull, on her mobile as she listened. Although it was controlled by a different local authority and wouldn't directly win him any votes, his message was clear. He was a man prepared to build relationships with neighbours and regarded it as an important strand of his work. It was subtle politics. He was reaching out in a way that the other candidates weren't."
The first stumble is over 'his' event and 'her' mobile. 'His' and 'he' are referring to a character in the previous paragraph, not Stone.
Next is that neither the event nor Stone are in Beverley - this refers to the Beverley coverage of the Hull event.
'She listened' not to the coverage of her mobile but to a debate (again, previous para).
Third party reporting (the "coverage") somehow becomes 'his' message. The coverage is no longer owned by the media but by the candidate - 'his' message... 'he was reaching out...'. A radio(?) station decides to cover a by-election; this shows that the candidate is reaching out. There may be a connection here (maybe the candidate paid the station or somehow influenced them) but is not mentioned. Similarly, the news coverage of a debate seems, inexplicably, to morph into one candidate's message. Surely the station - reporting live - would cover everyone's platform.
I also couldn't understand the number of conversations that started with a character being belligerent and in control, ready to walk away and then, for no stated reason, becoming cooperative and helpful. There were a number of these sorts of unexplained inconsistencies, the most obvious being that the main character has returned to work as a 'disgraced' police officer after a year's absence yet is left unsupervised to pursue her own inquiries for a week - no checking in to the station, no oversight, no meetings. All despite consistently disobeying orders and annoying her superiors. I don't get it - she would have been called in and told to do desk work for a week. Another inconsistency being a suicide without a body, without a note. Yes, we get that there was a cover up involved but that's a big leap (pun not intended); the police say it was suicide but the police don't get to have the final in cause of death - that's a coroner's job and the coroner is never mentioned - perhaps because the circumstances suggest a coroner wouldn't close the case that easily.
And then there's the police officer who is attacked in her own home by a known thug. She fights back and wins the fight, effectively restraining the assailant. And what does the police officer do? Call the police to arrest the man? No, she runs away, leaving the man unsecured in her flat with the door open.
I usually don't write such long reviews and go into such detail as in this one but I've done so because I really wanted to like this book but was let down by needless, minor errors that could have been easily rectified. It's a pity.
Police officer Anna Stone is troubled by the suicide of her sister years ago. In steps a former solider named Luke Carver with information to help her. Stone must determine if this ex-soldier, she once sent to prison can assist her into getting to the truth of her sisters death. Carver is framed for the murder of the woman in his apartment building, and they join forces to find out who is behind the killings. The investigation the two will take into Hull's past is filled with danger. Quantrill does a masterful job of introducing an assortment of characters (possible suspects), all with the possibility of being involved in the murders.This is my first book by Nick Quantrill, and I look forward to reading more of his work.
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