The Final Silence
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Jun '15
Should be back in stock very soon

The latest breakneck thriller from Stuart Neville, the rising star of crime fiction: when Rea Carlisle inherits a house from an uncle she never knew, she has no idea what horrors she is about to unleash
DI Jack Lennon and DCI Serena Flanagan must join forces to investigate a series of murders reaching back decades. Rea Carlisle inherits a house from an uncle she never knew and with it a leather-bound book containing fingernails, locks of hair and a list of victims. Horrified, Rea turns to the only person she can think of old flame DI Jack Lennon.
DI Jack Lennon and DCI Serena Flanagan must join forces to investigate a series of murders reaching back decades
Rea Carlisle inherits a house from an uncle she never knew – and with it a leather-bound book containing fingernails, locks of hair and a list of victims.
Horrified, Rea turns to the only person she can think of: old flame DI Jack Lennon. But Lennon has his own troubles, and they only get worse when a brutal murder places him in the crosshairs of one of the force's toughest detectives: DCI Serena Flanagan.
Lennon soon realises that running isn't an option, and an alliance with Flanagan is the only way to find a killer with nothing left to lose.
'A thriller writer at the top of his game'
Sunday Independent
'Packs a real punch'
Guardian
'Neville's best yet'
Sunday Mirror
'Confirms Neville's place in the first division of crime writers'
Spectator
Gripping from start to finish. Neville's economical yet nuanced prose style drives the plot forward at breakneck speed while building complex characters with the deftness that defines a thriller writer at the top of his game * Sunday Independent *
Deftly plotted, fast paced and the denouement packs a real punch -- Laura Wilson * Guardian *
This pacey, exciting thriller is Neville's best yet * Sunday Mirror *
Crisply written and fast-moving, the novel has a brutal honesty that confirms Neville's place in the first division of crime writers * Spectator *
Crime fiction doesn't get much better -- Lee Child
What makes Stuart Neville so special is that he never forgets the human heart that beats inside the bleakest darkness -- Val McDermid
Succinct and pacy storytelling stretched taut across a morass of unresolved tensions and motives for murder that don’t necessarily fit the prevailing post-peace process narrative. Lennon could well serve as a poster boy for conflict resolution, a deeply flawed man who has in the past been his own worst enemy and is now battered and scarred, physically and emotionally, as he pursues truth and justice by any means necessary * Irish Times *
This is crime fiction right out of the top drawer. The dialogue throughout the book snaps and jitters with electricity, and as the climax unfolds nothing will be able to make you put the book down. The elements of pity, humanity and compassion are never far under the swirling surface action of this novel, and it will certainly be put on my ‘best of 2014' shelf * Crimefictionlover *
Neville is back with a bang… Just as captivating as the previous novels… I loved everything about the book * Ulster Tatler *
Neville, who was heaped with praise for his first book, has managed to keep the good stuff coming, and his new novel shows no sign of a dip in performance * Sunday Business Post *
- Short-listed for Bord G is Irish Energy Book Awards - The Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award 2014 (UK)
- Long-listed for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2016 (UK)
ISBN: 9780099578376
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: 234g
336 pages