Silence, Anthony Quinn
Silence, Anthony Quinn
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Silence

Author: Anthony Quinn

Narrator: Caroline Lennon

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2016


Synopsis

Father Aloysius Walsh spent the last years of his life painstakingly collecting evidence of a yearlong killing spree, unparalleled savagery that blighted Ireland's borderlands at the end of the 1970s. Pinned to his bedroom wall, a macabre map charts the grim territory of death-victims, weapons, wounds, dates-and somehow, amid the forest of pins and notes, he had discerned a pattern. So why did Father Walsh deliberately drive through a cordon of policemen and off the road to his death? Why, when Inspector Celcius Daly arrives at the scene, does he find Special Branch already there? And why is Daly's mother's name on the priest's map?

About Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn is an Irish author and journalist. Born in Ireland, Quinn majored in English at Queen’s University, Belfast. He has written short stories for years, winning critical acclaim and, twice, a place on the short list for the Hennessy Literary Awards for New Irish Writing. His book Disappeared was nominated for the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel, and Kirkus Reviews named it to their list of 2012’s Top 10 Best Crime Novels.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Donna on March 17, 2017

Silence is the third in the Inspector Celcius Daly series, but I read it alone and didn’t realize I had missed anything until I got online and looked. I received my copy free from Net Galley and Open Road Media in exchange for this honest review. It’s been for sale for almost a year and I apologize......more

Goodreads review by Orla on December 13, 2015

Silence There is something truly wonderful about finding a recent debut novel by a little known author, and loving it. There’s the excitement, the sharing, the recommending, the knowledge that you are doing your own small part in helping this unknown word-wrangler to find two, or ten, or a hundred ne......more

Goodreads review by Tredaran on December 07, 2015

I found this book to be a bit slow and the resolution a bit of an anti-climax. I've not read Quinn's other books but wondered whether this was a hastily written sequel pushed by the publisher as I detected a lack of author engagement in his plot and characters. The writing is good and he does convey......more

Goodreads review by Jack on July 24, 2017

A priest drives off the road and dies. But Inspector Daly realises there is something strange about the accident. He follows a trail back through the Troubles, with a personal connection. The writing gives the story an ethereal quality.......more

Goodreads review by Audrey on December 24, 2017

I loved this novel to bits. Anthony Quin writes the most mysterious detective novels, with Celcius Daly as the very strange detective on the case.......more