Gone Quiet

by Eleanor Taylor Bland

Book Overview

Black female police detective Marti MacAlister and her partner Jessenovik return to investigate the murder of a deacon of a local Baptist church, an investigation that Marti finds uncomfortable as it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451182677
• ISBN13: 9780451182678
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.0" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

One Word------Boring

After reading all of Bland's books, I have to say this is the most boring of the series. It did not offer any excitement and on top of that, was predictable.

Excellent writing.

This is the second book that I have read by Taylor-Bland. She is an excellent writer.From the very first page of this novel I was enthralled. The characters in this book were filled with so much pain. Taylor-Bland made you understand what they were going through. I like the fact that she gives such detailed background information on each character. It makes the story much more believable.I too, like the other person who reviewed this book, was disappointed at who did it, but I got over that real fast because the writing was so good.All in all this was a great book also. I am reading her first book "Dead Time" now. I'm sure it will be just as good as the other 2 I've read.

Eleanor Taylor-Bland: A Well-Kept Secret Worth Telling

This is the first book I read in the Marti MacAllister series. I'd never heard of Eleanor Taylor Bland; the cover of the book caught my eye. I'm so glad I found this series and started with this book. I LOVE the fact that Taylor-Bland didn't create Marti as some tough-cop chic; she can be tough but, more accurately, she's a 3-dimensional person (as much as a fictional character can be) with the struggles we all have and then some. As an African-American woman, I can appreciate Taylor-Bland addressing the racism and sexism Marti faced by white males in her former department without beating us over the head with messages. I especially appreciated the background information about Marti's life with her husband before his death because it helps realize the depth of her and her children's loss as they attempt to establish a sense of normalcy in his absence. In fact, the details about each character and their traditions (family, language, racial/ethnic, etc.) allowed me to see their surroundings more clearly and look at situations through their eyes -- even when I was most disgusted with them.The actual mystery grabbed me from the beginning! Again, background information is very important to the development of this story. As the plot develops and more facts are revealed, you will change your mind a thousand times about all the characters. I was a little disappointed with who the killer was and how that information came about, but I got over it as I looked at the overall circumstances. Needless to say, I am quite impressed with this series. Gone Quiet remains my favorite in the Marti MacAllister series (Hey! I'm nostalgic; cut me a break!). :-)