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Title details for Kingdom of Silence by Lee Wood - Wait list

Kingdom of Silence

#2 in series

by Lee Wood
Ralph Cosham
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A US marshal and her prisoner are gunned down outside of London's Heathrow Airport just as the prisoner is to testify against the head of a violent animal-rights group. Leeds Detective Sergeant Keen Dunliffe doesn't seem like the right man for the case, except that he has the undercover experience and knowledge of Yorkshire, the terrorists' backyard. He's ordered to head up a sting operation with Rachel Colver, an inexperienced police constable, who may have personal ties that will help her infiltrate the animal-rights group. However, Keen is worried about a plan that puts Rachel in obvious peril. As the two hunker down to work the case from the inside, brutal extremists and police politics collide, involving murder, intimidation, smuggling, and blackmail with lethal consequences.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Inspector Keen Dunliffe

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    February 17, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481568043
      • File size: 247559 KB
      • Duration: 08:35:44

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 22, 2008
      Set in early 2001, Wood's solid second mystery to feature Yorkshire Det. Sgt. Keen Dunliffe (after 2005's Kingdom of Lies
      ) opens with a bang. Kim Prescott, a veteran U.S. marshal on the verge of retirement, is escorting convicted felon Eunice Connor on a flight to the U.K., where Connor is facing charges stemming from her role in a violent activist group, Justice for Animals Defense Alliance. Soon after the plane lands at Heathrow (and just as the reader thinks the sympathetic Prescott is going to play a major role), an assailant on a motorcycle shoots both Prescott and Connor to death. The authorities suspect JADA's leadership may have wanted Connor silenced. Teamed with the requisite wet-behind-the-ears young partner, Dunliffe doggedly follows leads to get the goods on the group. A subplot centering on an outbreak of hoof and mouth disease raises the ante, though fans of contemporary British police procedurals won't find much to distinguish this one from the many others already out there.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Detective Sergeant Keen Dunliffe is having a heck of a time in this eagerly awaited sequel to Lee Wood's first British police procedural. Thank goodness he has such an able narrator in Ralph Cosham to give him voice. Seconded to an unwelcoming Yorkshire station to help cope with violent animal rights activists, Dunliffe chases leads for three cases while trying to resuscitate a romance. Around him, farmers cope with a hoof-and-mouth epidemic. Cosham's thoughtful portrayals of the book's many characters, from Yorkshire coppers to London ladies, offer insight and enjoyment in equal measure. But it's his pacing that is most remarkable. As the tension grows, Cosham's narration builds from "bored cop relaxed" to panic without ever overdoing it. A terrific job. A.C.S. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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