Sharon McCone is used to solving problems. She has been doing it for over 20 years in the USA in Marcia Muller's pioneering and acclaimed series about the San Francisco PI. And thanks to her extended and occasionally dysfunctional family, she is no stranger to the consequences of revealing the occasional skeleton in the closet. But her latest case is both personal and deeply devastating. After her father dies, Sharon discovers documents that have been hidden for her entire life and they launch her on a voyage of self-discovery. Intent on exploring her own past, Sharon travels from a Shoshone Indian reservation in Montana to a ghost town in northern California. Far from resolving painful issues of loss and identity, the discovery of a woman named Saskia Blackhawk serves only to embroil the
… read more...California PI in a larger story of deceit--and murder. Listen to the Silence is an intense novel which plunges into deeply unsettling territory, a novel in which what goes unsaid is just as important as the words spoken out loud.Read More read less...