The Silent Girls
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.90 (904 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062351540 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lives in his home state of Vermont with his lovely wife and daughter.. Eric Rickstad is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Girls, a #1 bestselling Nook and #3 Mystery Kindle novel heralded as intelligent and profound, dark, disturbing, and heartbreaking. His first novel Reap, a literary suspense novel, was a New York Times Notew
Freight & Storage)“Eric Rickstad’s The Silent Girls is a bone-chilling mystery set in one of New England’s darkest corners, the kind of place travelers are well-advised to avoid after nightfall. This well-crafted book will have you staying up late, turning pages and afraid to turn off the light.” (Paul Doiron, author of The Poacher's Son)“Finely drawn characters, a narrative that beguiles and surprises and stark, poetic writing make for a novel as dark and brooding as its rural Vermont setting. I kept turning pages, scared of what I’d find but compelled to look. The Silent Girls is love and terror, a mix of intense feelings that see
Jersey Girl Book Reviews / Jersey Girl Sizzling Book Reviews said The Silent Girls. The Silent Girls is a riveting dark psychological thriller that follows private investigator Frank Rath's investigation into a string of mysterious disappearances of teenage girls during the dead of winter in the rural town of Canaan, Vermont.Author Eric Rickstad weaves an intense tale of horror, mystery, and suspense, with intriguing twists and turns that easily captivates the reader's attention from the beginning to the story's dramatic conclusion. The story centers around private investigator Frank Rath who is called upon to assist the rural town of Canaan, Vermont's police department in the investigation o. "If i used one word to describe it, I would use pleased. A book I was happy to have read." according to Debbie Richardson. Wow. An ending I did not see coming! But let's not get ahead of ourselves.My initial thoughts immediately after finishing this book in one word? Pleased.Pleased I took a chance on this after seeing it on an review blog (thanks My Bookish Ways). Even after seeing there was only one review on Amazon and we all know chances are the first few reviews are friends and family of the author. Well, I'm neither. Never heard of this guy, had no knowledge of the book prior to seeing the review.I loved how he ended the story! I freaking loved it! I loved how what seemed like a serial killer running amuck amongst young teen. Wow! Thoroughly Engrossing! Linziek This is the first time I've read any book by Rickstad. He had me hooked from the very beginning. From his character development, to descriptions of places and situations, I felt as if I were one of his characters watching from the sideline. PI Rath, the main character, so utterly human with feelings (usually difficult for most male authors to describe from my reading experience), came across as a man, living with a unrelenting guilty conscience due to an incident from his past, willing to go the extra length to solve a case, yet remain in the background not taking credit for his excellent contributions to the
Then the police in his remote rural community of Canaan find an '89 Monte Carlo abandoned by the side of the road, and the beautiful teenage girl who owned the car seems to have disappeared without a trace.Soon Rath's investigation brings him face-to-face with the darkest abominations of the human soul.With the consequences of his violent and painful past plaguing him, and young women with secrets vanishing one by one, he discovers once again that even in the smallest towns on the map, evil lurks everywhere—and no one is safe.Morally complex, seething with wickedness and mystery, and rich in gritty atmosphere and electrifying plot turns, The Silent Girls marks the return of critically acclaimed author Eric Rickstad. Readers of Ian Rankin, Jo Nesb&