Synopses & Reviews
Beloved for both her complex mysteries and her fascinating main character, African-American female cop Marti MacAlister,
Eleanor Taylor Bland is "one of today's most talented mystery writers" (
Booklist). Now Marti is newly married, juggling domestic bliss and a blended family, when an arsonist/bomber shatters the peace of their sleepy Chicago suburb. Suddenly Marti and her partner Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik are working overtime to investigate a series of crimes that appear victimless--until a woman's charred body is discovered in the smoking ruins of a vacant house. There's no time to lose as they race to find a sociopath who has them in his sights--as he graduates from backlot blazes to wholesale homicide, in search of the ultimate thrill....
Review
"Bland ingeniously misleads the reader about the villain's identity. It's great fun." (Chicago Sun-Times)
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"Absorbing...hair-raising...A generously layered novel." --
Publishers Weekly"A highly suspenseful read that keeps you turning the pages. Ms. Bland tells her tale with great warmth and the reader not only gets caught up in the mystery but the personal lives of Marti and Vik, making them as real as your neighbors." --Romantic Times
Synopsis
An arsonist on the loose in sleepy Lincoln Prairie appears to be graduating from simple blazes to sophisticated bombs. Before his acts become deadly, middle-aged homicide detective Marti MacAlister and her tired but dedicated partner, Matthew Jessenovik, must stop the culprit.
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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.