The Silence

A young American college student has gone missing in Cambridge.  One of her roommates feels that she could be dead.  PC Gully has started the investigation by meeting with the roommates.  She discovers that someone had been through the house using a key to access each of the different rooms.  Also, Libby noticed a smell of meat gone bad somewhere in the house.  That was enough to make Gully suspicious.

DC Gary Goodhew joins her and opens the bedroom of the missing student.  That brings many more cops.  As DC Goodhew talks to the roommates, he discovers that one of them is related to another suicide.  Following his instincts, he looks back at the old file.  It brings back black memories. 

Further investigation leads him to discover a connection between the mother of the American student and the mother of one of the roommates.  Is it relevant?

The case takes a strange twist when a second female roommate is found dead of an apparent suicide.  Goodhew's gut instinct is that there is a connection between the deaths, while others have written them off as suicides.  As Goodhew studies the information available, he discovers more and more ties.  Maybe they weren't suicides after all.  Other cases now come into play.

Author Alison Bruce starts this mystery off in a very slow manner, however as the reader begins to learn things the pace picks up, leading to a very exciting climax.  Well written and well worth the read.