Scotland Yard's Richard Jury goes out on a limb to help a murder suspect—a woman whose silence protects her, but hides the truth....
Feeling burned out, Jury takes an unplanned stopover in Yorkshire and books a room at a cozy inn called the Old Silent. Violence finds him anyway when he becomes the only witness to a murder. Though Nell Healey shot her husband in cold blood, Jury will go to any lengths to help her, including taking sick leave from Scotland Yard to investigate. Calling on his old friend Melrose Plant for help, he must break through Nell’s reticence to untangle a web of twisted motives—and twisted lives....
“Perfect, distilled Grimes…an engrossing tale.”—New York Daily News
“As fine as anything Ms. Grimes has written.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Another tour de force for Grimes.”—Publishers Weekly
“She writes, as always, with charm, authority, and ironic wit…a class act.”—Kirkus Reviews
