Silent City, Carrie Smith
Silent City, Carrie Smith
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Silent City
A Claire Codella Mystery

Author: Carrie Smith

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/13/2015

Synopsis

The world of New York City school politics takes a deadly turn when Hector Sanchez, the popular principal of an up-and-coming public school, is murdered. Detective Claire Codella catches the high-profile case while she’s still struggling to get back up to speed. This is her first case since taking leave to battle cancer.Still recovering and still fighting to fit back in at the precinct, Codella must contend with a new partner and an old disease to find out who killed Hector Sanchez. As she investigates, she turns up question after question—and finding the answers may cost Codella her life.

About Carrie Smith

Carrie Smith is the senior vice president and publisher of Benchmark Education Company. Her writing awards include three Hopwood Awards from the University of Michigan and a Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown fellowship. She lives in Manhattan.

About Nicol Zanzarella

Nicol Zanzarella is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator and a theater and television actress. She has appeared in productions of Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, Cousin Bette, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and many others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 13, 2015

4.5 stars Fans of police procedurals do not want to miss Carrie Smith'sSilent City, the first installment in the Claire Codella Mysteryseries. With a well-drawn cast of characters and an impossible to solve murder, this well-written and intriguing mystery provides readers a fascinating behind the s......more

Goodreads review by Stacia on June 04, 2016

After reading the glowing praise from various crime writers on the back cover, I had high expectations for this book, and unfortunately it didn't quite live up to that. It was a competent procedural, but there were some things that bothered me about it. I was intrigued by having a cancer survivor as......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on September 05, 2015

SILENT CITY was an excellent mystery story. I really enjoyed the main character who is coming back from cancer treatment. She had an aggressive form of lymphoma and it was treated aggressively. She still has nerve damage in her extremities and other side effects of her treatment. The first day back......more

Goodreads review by Bobbi on November 03, 2015

This book truly surprised me. I read a lot of new authors and rarely do I have the kind of reaction that I did to this woman's first novel. It was absolutely wonderful. I never would have suspected it was a first novel, had I not known going in. She develops characters in such a way that you wind up......more

Goodreads review by LInda on April 13, 2016

Detective Claire Codella has just returned to work after being treated for Burkitts lymphoma, a particularly virulent type of cancer with a horrifying treatment. A school principal and another educator are murdered on the same day and Codella is in charge of the case. She figures out what ties the c......more

Quotes

“This compelling debut kept me up all night. Crime fiction fans, take note: newcomer Carrie Smith belongs at the top of your to-be-read pile!” Wendy Corsi Staub, New York Times bestselling author

“Grabs you on the first page and makes you feel like you are right there in the middle of the action. The tension increases as the drama unfolds.” RT Book Reviews (4 stars)

“Tight, well-written, and tracked beautifully…[Silent City] does a great job of describing the city.” Bookreporter

“Smith’s debut in the genre features snappy prose, a skillfully constructed plot, and a nicely detailed rendering of police work, all the while revealing just enough of Codella’s backstory, including her personal relationship with a fellow detective, to make us want to know more. Fans of procedurals should add Smith to their must-read lists.” Booklist (starred review)

“This explosive debut in crime fiction needs no help to win over the listener with its details of gritty New York streets. NYPD Detective Claire Codella’s perspective is made stronger by narrator Nicol Zanzarella. This is demonstrated best when Codella scrolls through the comments on a message board that the victim was reading right before his death, and Zanzarella seamlessly transitions between different New York accents…Zanzarella expertly voices Codella’s doubts as she faces media hungry for answers and defeated faculty members tangled in unsavory business.” AudioFile

“With a cast of characters whose conflicting interests come together in a seamless tapestry of dishonesty and deception, you’ll be guessing until the tense conclusion of this incredibly taut tale.” Maggie Barbieri, author of the Murder 101 mysteries

“Smith’s New York is a real place and her story’s a good one, but her true superpower is her ability to unravel the messy intricacies of peoples’ interior lives.” S. J. Rozan, Edgar-winning author

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