The Silence

Longlisted for the New Blood Dagger Award 2021''A darkly gripping and addictive read. I tore through it in a few days¿ ESTHER FREUD''Deeply engrossing ¿ an exquisite literary thriller¿ PHILIPPA EAST¿Emotionally wrenching¿ WALL STREET JOURNAL¿Impossible to put down¿ TREVOR WOODA missing woman30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of a Sydney summer, the Greens¿ next-door neighbour Mandy disappeared without a trace.A cold case reopenedIn 1997, in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father is under suspicion of Mandy¿s murder.A devastating secretHow well does Isla know her father? Is he capable of doing something terrible? And is there another secret in their community ¿ a conspiracy of silence which stretches deep into Australia¿s past?¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿An atmospheric, convincing portrayal of the way that the decisions we make, both individually and collectively, reverberate down the years¿ GUARDIAN¿Allott uses the scan