This book is about a handful of unusual British crime cases. I liked how each was presented and handled, with the author’s take on why they were ultimately remembered for so long.

A heart breaking honest and moving true crime collection that dives into five long-forgotten murders. These cases varied on criminal motive, timing, location, and circumstances. Each victim’s story is preserved by the author's diligent research and reporting.


I thoroughly enjoyed reading this piece of work
Thank you Net Galley, Simon Farquhar and Independent Publishers Group for allowing me to review this advanced copy of A Deafening Silence. I was not influenced or paid in exchange for this honest review.

A devastating yet powerful true crime collection that sheds light on five long-forgotten murders. These cases span time and setting, from psychiatric institutions to chillingly concealed crime scenes, that are uncovered by the author’s exhaustive research and commitment to giving each victim the dignity they were denied.

This book offers some lesser known case studies and will be of interest to anyone who reads true crime accounts. The author writes in a sensitive and measured way, offering balance and dignity and without salacious or melodramatic detail. Instead, he seeks to analyse what happened and comment on the impact of the crime on victim, secondary victims, perpetrators and society more broadly. While he is careful to present the cases in the context of the time in which they occurred, he also notes the shortfalls which resulted from misogyny, tolerance of child abuse and “turning a blind eye” to domestic abuse, I think this added a great deal of credibility to his prose. I had heard of none of these cases and found them all extremely interesting, as well as tragic.