Silent City
- Author Carrie Smith
- Narrator Nicol Zanzarella
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 13 October 2015
- Run Time 10 hours and 16 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: women sleuths.
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What to expect
The world of New York City school politics takes a deadly turn when Hector Sanchez, the popular principal of an up-and-coming public school, is murdered. Detective Claire Codella catches the high-profile case while she’s still struggling to get back up to speed. This is her first case since taking leave to battle cancer.
Still recovering and still fighting to fit back in at the precinct, Codella must contend with a new partner and an old disease to find out who killed Hector Sanchez. As she investigates, she turns up question after question—and finding the answers may cost Codella her life.
Critics Review
u201cThis compelling debut kept me up all night. Crime fiction fans, take note: newcomer Carrie Smith belongs at the top of your to-be-read pile!u201d
u201cGrabs you on the first page and makes you feel like you are right there in the middle of the action. The tension increases as the drama unfolds.u201d
u201cTight, well-written, and tracked beautifullyu2026[Silent City] does a great job of describing the city.u201d
u201cSmithu2019s debut in the genre features snappy prose, a skillfully constructed plot, and a nicely detailed rendering of police work, all the while revealing just enough of Codellau2019s backstory, including her personal relationship with a fellow detective, to make us want to know more. Fans of procedurals should add Smith to their must-read lists.u201d
u201cThis explosive debut in crime fiction needs no help to win over the listener with its details of gritty New York streets. NYPD Detective Claire Codellau2019s perspective is made stronger by narrator Nicol Zanzarella. This is demonstrated best when Codella scrolls through the comments on a message board that the victim was reading right before his death, and Zanzarella seamlessly transitions between different New York accentsu2026Zanzarella expertly voices Codellau2019s doubts as she faces media hungry for answers and defeated faculty members tangled in unsavory business.u201d
u201cWith a cast of characters whose conflicting interests come together in a seamless tapestry of dishonesty and deception, youu2019ll be guessing until the tense conclusion of this incredibly taut tale.u201d
u201cSmithu2019s New York is a real place and her storyu2019s a good one, but her true superpower is her ability to unravel the messy intricacies of peoplesu2019 interior lives.u201d
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