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Title: Without a Word

Author: Kate McQuaile

Narrator: Aoife McMahon, Aidan Kelly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-17

Publisher: Quercus

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

I was there when it happened. I watched her disappear....

An emotional and addictive psychological drama from the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, What She Never Told Me.

Lillian had phoned telling her to get Skype up and running. 'I have so much to tell you.' Then, the knock on the door. 'Sorry Orla, I'd better see who it is' she said. Orla waited. Seconds became minutes. She didn't know how long she waited before she realised that something terrible had happened.

For more than a decade, Lillian's disappearance has remained unsolved, and Orla has found it impossible to move on.

Then she receives an unexpected visit from Ned Moynihan, the detective who led the original investigation into her friend's vanishing. Moynihan has been receiving anonymous notes accusing him of having failed to investigate the case properly. He assumes the notes are coming from Orla, yet Orla knows nothing of these letters.

Is somebody trying to tell them the truth about what really happened to Lillian that night?

Critic Reviews:

"Everything you want in a thriller." (Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths)

"Accomplished." (Sunday Times)

"Elegant." (Sunday Mirror)

Members Reviews:

An OK Book

More than 10 years ago, Lillian called Orla, saying, "I have so much to tell you." There was a knock on Lillian's door, and she told Orla she was going to the door to see who was there. Orla waited...and waited...and waited... But Lillian never returned. Now 10 years later, Lillian's disappearance remains a mystery. Anonymous notes begin appearing insinuating that Ned Moynihan, the lead detective, did not investigate the case appropriately. From that point, Ned begins looking into Lillian's disappearance again. The book becomes a big tedious in the middle as the investigation proceeds somewhat sluggishly. The end fell kind of flat because there was really no big twist or reveal. It was not a bad book but was not really suspenseful either.

Mystery In A Troubled Town

What an engrossing read! A multi-layered and complex storyline pursues the mystery of Lillianâs disappearance down through the years, transporting Orla from London to an Irish seaside town close to Dublin, ten years later. Here, in this coastal village, amid a vortex of threat, apprehension and paranoia, we find more questions than answers, with seemingly everyone, from the police inspector to the stable-boy, beset with issues. As the tale unfolds, our best guesses are deftly disarmed and our options dwindle almost to the point where we wonder if Lillian is indeed dead, or has simply bolted. The resolution is presented with the same teasing flair, keeping us wondering till the very end what else we have missed. I loved it.