Homicide Detective Carina Kincaid has seen a lot of
gruesome murders in her career, but never one like the
murder of eighteen year old college student, Angie Vance.
Angie's body is found on the beach in a garbage bag,
mistaken for trash. She has been suffocated, her mouth was
glued shut and gagged with a bandana, and there are signs
of sexual assault. With no clues or DNA left on the body,
Carina is stuck on how to solve this murder.
Fortunately, a man named Steve Thomas, thirty nine years
old, college student, and ex boyfriend to Angie Vance,
reports her missing to the police. Warning signs go off in
Carina's head and she is positive she's found the killer.
The only problem is Steve is adamant that he did not kill
Angie and there is no evidence to prove he did. When Steve
realizes the police are investigating him because Angie
isn't missing, she's been murdered; he immediately calls
his brother Sheriff Nick Thomas. Steve needs his brother's
help to prove he's not a murderer. Unfortunately, Nick is
a cop first, a brother second. Instead of immediately
defending his brother, he jumps into the investigation
along side Carina. Nick discovers things about his brother
Steve that he wasn't aware of before. He starts to wonder
if his own brother is capable of murder.
After finding out about a secret journal that Angie kept
online, several questions start to become answered. Angie
has a long list of ex boyfriends and mysterious online
admirers who could have murdered her. Did Steve kill Angie
or is the killer still out there prowling for more
victims?
While investigating the murder of Angie, one of her
college friends is also found dead. One by one, all of
Angie's friends become in danger of a similar fate. Carina
and Nick realize the killer is someone Angie talked to on
the internet, someone who she might have personally known.
While going through Angie's journal, the suspect list
grows. Anyone could have found out who Angie was from her
journal and murdered her. Has Angie's online activity
jeopardized her life and everyone who knows her? Has she
sent a crazed serial killer right to her doorstep or was
the killer someone close to her that she knew?
SPEAK NO EVIL was everything I could ask for in a
thriller. The suspense is non stop from the prologue until
the end. The first two sentences of the prologue show you
that this is going to be the kind of book that grabs you
by your throat and doesn't let you breathe until the
killer is found. ''At the very beginning, she had seen his
face and knew he would not let her live. She couldn't
plead with him; he'd sealed her mouth shut.'' Allison
Brennan is truly a master at writing spine tingling,
suspense. If you like your mysteries scary, gritty, gory
and extremely suspenseful, then SPEAK NO EVIL is the way
to go!
The murder of eighteen-year-old Angi Vance was exceptionally
vile--her mouth was sealed with glue, an obscenity was
scrawled across her skin, and she was suffocated in a
garbage bag. The killing seems personal, so police detective
Carina Kincaid focuses her efforts on the victim's much
older ex-boyfriend, Steve Thomas. But without physical
evidence, Carina can't make a collar or a case. She also
can't stop Sheriff Nick Thomas, the prime suspect's brother,
from conducting his own unwelcome investigation.
Though Nick is still scarred and unsteady from a recent
confrontation with a serial killer, he's determined to prove
his brother's innocence. But his confidence is shaken when
he learns of Steve's dark side, and when a friend of the
murdered girl meets a similarly gruesome fate. With no time
to lose, Carina and Nick work together to trap a psychopath,
before another unlucky woman faces and unspeakable end.
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