SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘I loved it … Persons Unknown is like walking on quicksand, for reader and detective alike' VAL MCDERMIDSecond literary thriller from bestselling author of MISSING, PRESUMED.A brutal murder. A detective with no one left to trust.A YOUNG MAN MURDERED A city banker bleeds to death yards from a Cambridgeshire police headquarters.A DETECTIVE OUT OF HER DEPTH DI Manon Bradshaw’s world is turned upside down when the victim turns out to be closer to her than she could have guessed.WHO SHOULD SHE BELIEVE? When even her trusted colleagues turn their backs on her, it’s time to contemplate the unthinkable: are those she holds dear capable of murder?
The new novel from the Sunday Times Bestseller‘I can't imagine reading a better crime novel this year’ RENEE KNIGHT‘No one writes crime fiction like Susie Steiner’ ERIN KELLY‘Perfect. I loved it’ FIONA BARTON‘So spot-on … So moving’ MARIAN KEYES‘Completely gripping’ JANE CASEYThe dead cannot speak. But they still have a story to tell.The body of a young man is found hanging from a tree in Cambridgeshire, a note attached saying ‘The dead cannot speak’. It’s impossible to say whether it was murder or suicide – was he silenced, or driven to end his own life? And either way, who is responsible?DI Manon Bradshaw is assigned to investigate, but with anti-immigrant sentiment in the area reaching boiling point it becomes increasingly difficult for her to untangle what happened to Lukas Balsys. Are other migrant workers in danger, and will solving the puzzle of Lukas’ death help to save them?By turns warm and witty, gripping and terrifying, heartbreaking and uplifting, Susie Steiner’s fourth book is both a literary tour de force and one of the finest crime novels of recent years.