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A Deathly Silence (The DCI Helen Lavery Novels) Kindle Edition

by Jane Isaac (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A gripping thriller perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, S.J. Watson, B A Paris and Sophie Hannah'Fans of Lynda La Plante’s Jane Tennison will be pleased' Publishers WeeklyWhen the mutilated body of a police officer is found in a derelict factory, the Hamptonshire police force is shocked to the core.DCI Helen Lavery returns from injury leave and is immediately plunged into an investigation like no other. Is this a random attack or is someone targeting the force? Organised crime groups or a lone killer?As the net draws in, Helen finds the truth lies closer than she could have imagined, and trusts no one.But Helen is facing a twisted killer who will stop at nothing to ensure their secrets remain hidden. And time is running out...REVIEWS'The novel will appeal to every crime reader who enjoys clever plotting and brilliant procedural detail' Kate Rhodes'An atmospheric and reassuringly authentic police investigation that tears along at a rip-roaring pace' A.J. Waines'This was a gripping page-turner of a read – I finished it in one sitting!' LJ Ross'Such a smart, classy and satisfying read. Isaac really is the queen of the police procedural… Isaac patiently drip-feeds the story – her biggest talent – and the pay-off is that you really care, so the twist is doubly shocking. Loved it' Louise Beech'Perfectly plotted police procedural that engages the reader from the discovery of the first body through a fast-paced investigation dogged by leaks, to a dramatic and terrifying conclusion. Jane Isaac at her best' Anne Coates'Jane Isaac weaves a tense story where you don't know who to trust or believe and you can't help but keep turning the pages. She is a master of the procedural and a go-to writer if you want your story twisted' Rebecca Bradley'An intriguing and deeply authentic mystery paired with a solid police procedural, A Deathly Silence tells a tragic yet utterly compelling story. Expertly plotted and filled with realistic, well-drawn characters, this is an excellent addition to the DI Helen Lavery series' SJI Holliday'Everything else was put on hold; I was reading at breakneck speed. A first-rate, fast-paced and utterly compelling police procedural – highly recommended' Clare Chase‘A clever, mind-twisting police procedural, with a cast of well-thought out characters, and a depth that will appeal to mystery addicts' Daisy White'A gripping read. Tense, pacy and authentic – you won't want to put it down!' Roz Watkins'The brilliant DI Lavery is back to solve a chilling murder. Isaac unravels the shocking, dark mystery with skill and an excellent eye for detail' Caroline England'From its chilling opening pages, A Deathly Silence is a gripping and superior police procedural. You might end up reading this one in a day. I can't wait to see what she bring us next' Howard LinskeyBOOKS BY JANE ISAACDCI Helen LaveryBook 1: An Unfamiliar MurderBook 2: The Truth Will OutBook 3: A Deathly SilenceBook 4: Evil IntentBook 5: In the ShadowsDI Will JackmanBook 1: Before It's Too LateBook 2: Beneath the AshesBook 3: The Lies Within
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"Fans of Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison will be pleased."— Publishers Weekly

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Jane Isaac is the author of the DI Will Jackman series, which includes The Lies Within and Before It's Too Late.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07NQ9DRJG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Legend Press (October 15, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 15, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1990 KB
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Jane Isaac is married to a serving detective and they live in rural Northamptonshire, UK with their daughter and dogs.

Jane is author of three bestselling detective series: DCI Helen Lavery, DI Will Jackman (based in Stratford upon Avon), and DC Beth Chamberlain (a Family Liaison Officer). Her novels have been nominated as best mystery in the 'eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook awards' and selected as 'Thriller of the Month' by E-thriller.com.

2021 saw Jane's first foray into psychological suspense with the release of One Good Lie. A further psychological suspense novel, One Fatal Secret, will follow in June 2022.

Jane loves to hear from readers and writers. You can reach her via her website at www.janeisaac.co.uk where you can join her Readers' Club for information on new releases.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Well written procedural
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2019
A Deathly Silence is the third book in the DCI Helen Lavery series by Jane Isaac. Released 15th Oct 2019 by Legend Press, it's 288 pages and available in ebook format. This is a well written modern procedural and although the third in the series, I read it as a standalone and had no problems following the characters or keeping the plot straight in my mind. I fully intend to go and pick up the previous 2 books in the series as soon as I can.

The author is an adept writer. The pacing, dialogue, plotting, and entire story arc are precisely controlled and well paced and presented. I found the plot engaging and twisty with a surprising and satisfying denouement. This is a solidly entertaining and enjoyable read especially for fans of modern British procedurals. The language is PG rated, nothing too graphic or over the top. The slang and spelling are British (torch, lift, flat, etc), but nothing out of the ordinary or unintelligible in context. There is a fair bit of brutal description of previously occurring torture, including a murder of a police officer, used in context and having happened previous to the narrative.

The plot revolves around a single main plot thread with a very few supporting subplot elements, so it's a satisfying book to sit and read without being distracted by a story which is all over the place.I was impressed with how realistic the investigation seemed, and how believable the internal politics were, with different departments making the process of murder investigation more difficult than it needed to be because of bureaucracy.

Well written and satisfying. Four stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A cracking good mystery
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2020
A Deathly Silence is book three in a series where I've not read books one or two. I rarely do that, because there's often backstory that either doesn't make its way into a later book cleanly (i.e., the author does big infodumps) or the later books cannot be read as a standalone (i.e., it's just a continuation of a cliffhanger in the previous book).

I'm quite happy to say that this can be read as a standalone, and Jane Isaac has a deft hand at including enough information from previous happenings to let us know what went on before and how that shapes the current book.

DCI Helene Lavery, currently on leave to recover from incidents in the previous book, where she was injured and a fellow officer killed, is called back early to work a case. A young woman - and a police officer, at that - is found murdered in an empty factory/warehouse, tortured before a fatal slit of the throat.

Questions abound: why her? Why here? Who had access?

There are a lot of people in this book. If you're not good at keeping track, it might be helpful to jot a couple of notes here and there. Those include: two boys, playing in the factory, who found the body but didn't report it. Their mothers - and in the case of one boy, his sister as well, plus their father (who is in prison, and who is named but never appears in the book). A next door neighbor who recently went through cancer treatment and who exchanged a lot of texts with the victim, as well as her husband. The victim's husband, also a police officer. His ex-girlfriend. The victim's friend who is possibly more than a friend, and her brother. An ex-con with sadistic, sexually driven tendencies. Plus all the assorted officers in homicide, management, medical examiner and technician, and the crew who monitors the organized crime outfits.

The story is great. There isn't a lot I can give specifics on, for spoilery reasons, and that's one of the reasons the story is quite a good read. There is a great combination of action and thinking/conversation, and the clues (bar one that only makes an appearance at the end) are spun out, gathered by the reader as the police work the crime and the associated crimes that arise after it.

The only thing I'd have to nitpick about would be some curious sentence constructions, where a sentence rings a bit oddly because it should have been part of the sentence before it. Instead, it's a bit of a dangler, completing the thought of the sentence previous to it. But that and the clue at the end are very, very minor things: the former because the thought still comes across, and the latter because we know by that point toward the end (or way earlier, in my case) who the killer is.

Overall: five stars, not a rating I use often.

Now I'm off to get the first two in the series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Crime Thriller/Police Procedural
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2019
A DEATHLY SILENCE is the third novel in the DCI Helen Lavery Series, an excellent crime thriller/ police procedural by Jane Isaac. I feel this novel can be read as a stand-alone, but you will enjoy this novel so much, you will be reaching for the previous two books in the series, to follow up more on the characters. I am as much to blame as I have her previous two novels to read…but it won’t be for long.

The novels in the DCI Helen Lavery Series include:

An Unfamiliar Murder (Book 1)
The Truth Will Out (Book 2)
A Deathly Silence (Book3)

Two boys, Phy and Connor played hooky on the last day of school, and were sneaking around a deserted industrial factory and ventured inside. Inside they discovered a mutilated corpse, a woman propped up against the radiator. Time to run…and keep their mouths shut! They hadn’t done anything wrong except trespass.

DCI Helen Lavery had just returned to work after eight weeks following an injury on duty. She was happy to return to work and her team at the Homicide and Major Incident Squad. She is immediately plunged into an investigation like no other, as SIO on the case.

The victim is a police officer, PC Sinead O’Donnell. She was supposed to be on a yoga retreat and left early in the morning, her husband in the care of their two young children…never to return.

Is this a random attack or is someone targeting the force?

Helen’s mantra was:
“Assume nothing. Believe nobody. Challenge everything.”

Time is running out and Helen must tap on all of her experience to find a twisted killer that lies closer than she thinks. She can trust no one, but must rely on her skill set to trap this killer.

An excellent crime thriller/police procedural with believable engaging characters that will appeal to a wide audience.

Many thanks to the author and The Book Club Reviewer Request Group (FB) for my digital copy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
Reviewed in Canada on July 22, 2023
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Mrs A
5.0 out of 5 stars Another amazing Jane Isaac book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2020
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I really enjoyed this book and found it very difficult to put down. It isn’t the type of book you can read one chapter then put it down, there are so many twists and turns and I found myself totally engrossed in the story and characters so much so I was reading it long past my bed time. Jane Isaac has incredible knowledge of police procedures (I think her partner works in the police force) which makes the story so much more realistic. I look forward to reading more from this author
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4.0 out of 5 stars Intetesting yarn
Reviewed in Australia on November 17, 2019
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An excellent bedtime crime story thats well written and an interesting plot that continues up to the last intriging chapters
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Marianne
3.0 out of 5 stars My First By This Writer
Reviewed in Canada on January 18, 2022
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Once I got acquainted with all of the characters, this was a good read. In fact, I will now read more by Jane Issac.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Returning to work can be killer
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 9, 2019
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I have to start by saying that although this is book three in the Helen Lavery series, it is the first one I have read. It works perfectly well as a standalone, and whilst it does give away a few things that would be spoilers for the first books in the series, which you'd expect reading out of sync, the only real disadvantage I found myself at is that I've missed some flipping good reads so far. I will correct that!

The book opens in very dramatic style, with the discovery of a murdered woman by two young boys. Now it is pure chance, and perhaps a touch of bad luck on their part, that they even find her, given that she has been left in an abandoned factory, one which no-one would be expected to visit any time soon. Her murder is brutal, the violence inflicted extreme, but it is more than just the nature of her injuries that gives the Police cause to want justice. the victim is one of their own, and as her first case back after injury and losing someone close to her, becomes personal, emotional and all too consuming for Helen.

What I loved about this book is the way in which Jane Isaac really brought the characters to life for me. Although it was my first time with the team, I got the measure of them very quickly and they became characters I was very invested in. The author has a great way of making the characters feel real, and really capturing their emotions, be it the kids who are up to no good and get far more than they bargained for, or the family who are torn apart and broken by Sinead's murder. Even the way in which the Police Officer assigned to the case are affected is emotionally sensitive and authentic. It really drew me into the story and made me care about what was happening.

Aside from great characters, we are treated to a really intriguing story and a complete mystery as to why Sinead would be murdered in such a grotesque way. And while the method of murder is quite dark, it is never too graphic, always just enough to enrage you as a reader but not push you away. The author takes readers down a number of roads before we finally find out who the killer is, and in quite dramatic fashion. In spite of her occupation, Sinead has no clear enemies and the reasons for her murder, which seems almost gangland in design, are baffling. I loved that uncertainty, the question mark that hung over Sinead's life and that of those around her. It kept the tension high and made we want to read more.

The pacing was spot on, slow and reflective at times, but full of frantic action when needed, especially towards the end in a high stakes showdown with Sinead's murderer. It really got the adrenalin pumping and took me a little by surprise when the killer was finally revealed.

I'm looking forward to catching up on the rest of the Helen Lavery series. If this book is anything to go by, I'm in for a real treat.
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