Scream in Silence

by Eleanor Taylor Bland

Book Overview

And that's exactly what Eleanor Taylor Bland is -- a master.Through seven mysteries featuring African-American middle-aged homicide detective Marti MacAlister, Bland has developed into one of the best known and best-loved writers in the genre today.With Scream in Silence, Bland again delivers a suspenseful, multi-layered novel about her middle-aged cop raising a modern family in suburban Chicago with her new husband and holding down a dangerous job. An arsonist is on the loose in sleepy Lincoln Prairie, and the pattern shows he is escalating in intensity from simple blazes to sophisticated bombs. It's only a matter of time before his handiwork turns deadly, and Marti and her tired but dedicated partner Matthew Jessenovik must race against the clock.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312203780
• ISBN13: 9780312203788
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

MOTHERS AND SONS

It is hard being a mother especially if you are old and helpless. Your only child, a son, becomes your keeper. At times he appears mean, just like his father, but that's okay. You do wonder what he does as he leaves you in your home alone, tired and frightened. Detectives Marti and Vik find themselves on the trail of an arsonist and bomber whose unleashed anger begins to terrorize their community. A dead body found at one of his fires unfolds a mystery involving Vik's past loves and a series of corrupt land deals. As the detectives methodically unravel the evidence they encounter mothers and sons whose relationships set off a time bomb of abuse, deceit and dependency. Eleanor Bland once again does a great job in exploring the psychological and emotional forces that lead sons to commit acts that only a mother would forgive. Through the investigation Marti begins to examin the relationship with her own son while Vik explores a teenage relationship long dead. Join with these two detectives as they attempt to make sense out of incidents that hit to close to home in their personal lives.

Marti and Vic, the dynamic duo

I read this book in a day. It was superb. I enjoyed it as well as her previous books. I kept waiting for Isaac the wino, one of her previous characters to turn up and give some clues as to something he had witnessed by accident. I can hardly wait for the next book to be written!