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    Let the Dead Speak

    Written by Jane Casey

    Narrated by Caroline Lennon

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    About this audiobook

    A top ten Sunday Times bestselling author

    From award-winning author Jane Casey comes a powerful crime thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page…

    Don’t miss the newest Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent thriller – THE STRANGER IN THE FAMILY – Coming March 2024. Available to Pre-Order now!

    A murder without a body
    Eighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns to her West London home one day to find the house covered in blood and Kate, her mother, gone. There may not be a body, but everything else points to murder.

    A girl too scared to talk
    Maeve Kerrigan is young, ambitious and determined to prove she’s up to her new role as detective sergeant. She suspects Chloe is holding something back, but best friend Bethany Norris won’t let Maeve get close. What exactly is Bethany protecting Chloe from?

    A detective with everything to prove
    As the team dig deeper into the residents of Valerian Road, no one is above suspicion. All Maeve needs is one person to talk, but that’s not going to happen. Because even in a case of murder, some secrets are too terrible to share…

    What people are saying about Let the Dead Speak:

    ‘I was utterly gripped’ Susie Steiner, author of Missing, Presumed

    ‘Sharp, complex and gripping to the very end’ Alex Marwood, author of The Wicked Girls

    ‘Fiendishly gripping’ John Connolly, author of the Charlie Parker series

    'A tremendously twisty, emotional read’ Sarah Hilary, author of Someone Else’s Skin

    ‘Fans of intelligent police procedurals and meaty crime fiction are in for a real treat’ Sinead Crowley, author of Can Anybody Help Me

    ‘If you haven’t discovered Jane Casey yet, this is the perfect place to start’ Mark Edwards, author of Follow You Home

    ‘All the twists and turns of a top-rate police procedural but with the psychological depth of a top-rate psych thriller’ Tammy Cohen, author of When She Was Bad

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 9, 2017
    ISBN9780008149024
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    Let the Dead Speak
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    Jane Casey

    JANE CASEY is the author of the Maeve Kerrigan novels (Let the Dead Speak, After the Fire) and the Jess Tennant Mysteries (Hide and Seek, Bet Your Life). A graduate of Oxford she also has received a M. Phil from Trinity College, Dublin. Born and raised in Dublin, she lives in London where she works as an editor.

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    • 2/5
      There is something wrong with this audiobook technically, as it just jumps from one scene to another mid scene, and the chapters fall out of sync. Couldn’t continue listening.
    • 3/5
      In Jane Casey's "Let the Dead Speak," dysfunctional people behave destructively and leave others to deal with the wreckage. DI Josh Derwent and DS Maeve Kerrigan of London's Metropolitan Police have the thankless task of investigating a bizarre case. Eighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns home from visiting her dad (her parents are divorced) only to discover that her mother, Kate, is missing. Chloe is also is horrified to see copious amounts of blood everywhere. Did someone murder her mother and dispose of her body? Kate had been a devoted mum who obtained special educational services for Chloe, a girl with intellectual challenges. However, Chloe is grown up now; she is beautiful, seductive, and no longer a docile child.

      Kerrigan, who narrates, is eager to prove that she is a capable and competent detective who earned her recent promotion. Underneath her carefully cultivated fa̤ade of strength and toughness, she is caring, compassionate, and eager to make sure that homicide victims are not forgotten. As usual, Casey entertains us with amusingly sarcastic byplay between Maeve, Derwent, and the most recent addition to the squad, DC Georgia Shaw, whom Kerrigan initially dismisses as a lightweight. Members of the team search for Kate's remains and interrogate her acquaintances and neighbors. This complex and frustrating investigation will require tenacity and patience, since so many witnesses stubbornly refuse to reveal what they know.

      Casey creates memorable characters (some of whom are downright loathsome), and the complex plot is a disheartening blend of deceit, betrayal, and cruelty. The corpses pile up, and as the narrative progresses, the author throws in one grim revelation after another. "Let the Dead Speak" is an engrossing study of disturbed, selfish, and malevolent individuals. Unfortunately, Kerrigan and her team misread clues, fail to notice anomalies, and are stymied by an abundance of secrets, lies, and evidence that does not add up. Readers who value plausibility will likely groan at the sheer number of far-fetched twists and turns that Casey throws at us, especially in the final pages. All in all, this work of psychological suspense will hold your interest, but be prepared to suspend your disbelief when the truth finally emerges.
    • 5/5
      Two perfect characters lead this perfect crime story, Maeve is such an intelligent clever woman, her side kick Josh shouldn't make me laugh but he does. The most excruciating scenes possible he will come out with something hilarious. Love him. Excellent book by the way.
    • 5/5
      Chloe is arriving home earlier than planned from a visit to her dads. When she gets home she doesn't find her mom Kate but an awful lot of blood.May contain mild spoilers. This is book seven to feature Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent. I have to say that they are my favourite crime solving duo. As always I'd say to read the series from the beginning. This is so that the reader can get to know both Maeve and Josh and see how their relationship is. They come across as if they really don't like each other but there are undercurrents there. For me I would like to see perhaps a kiss or even a bit more. Would this work out. Only Jane Casey, Maeve and Josh know the answers.The plot was quite engaging. As always there is plenty going on with lots of twists turns and then twists again. I always the books this series as it progresses I think it gets better.There isn't really anything I didn't like about this book as I always enjoy them which I do think is down to the two brilliant main characters.Thank you to the publisher via Netgalley for the chance to read and review the book.
    • 5/5
      18 year old Chloe Emery arrives home and finds her mother missing and the house is covered in blood. But where is the body? Casey grips us from the opening and doesn't let go until the close of the last page. Cleverly paced and full of twists, she has us hooked. Lots of suspects but who is lying and who is not? Maeve Kerrigan must piece things together. If you have never read Casey before, now is the time! A true craftswoman of mystery, she is not to be missed. I must read the next book very soon and I highly recommend this series if you enjoy mystery thrillers.
    • 4/5
      Five years ago, when I read book six in the Maeve Kerrigan series, I confidently stated that this was a series I had managed to keep up with. Famous last words as I've only just got around to reading book seven, Let the Dead Speak, and I do wish I'd got to it sooner. As always, it was great to be back with Maeve and DI Josh Derwent (in my opinion one of the best creations in fiction).Events from the earlier books are hinted at and I would have loved some kind of recap as things were hazily coming back to me. However, this book can be read as a standalone (although you would miss the background between Maeve and Josh). Maeve has had a promotion to DS and with it comes a greater confidence in her abilities. When a woman goes missing, her house covered in her blood, the team have to try and not only find out what happened but where she is as well. This leads to a number of suspects in the same street and it's not a straightforward case by any means.I found this to be a fast-paced crime thriller that really kept me turning the pages. The strength of the series as a whole is the dynamic between Kerrigan and Derwent and it's here in abundance once again, albeit with a change in circumstances for Derwent which seems to have softened his edges somewhat. There is also a complex and intriguing plot which gives Maeve a chance to step forward and shine. This is not my favourite of the series so far but I enjoyed it very much indeed and hope not to leave it quite so long before I catch up with the next instalment.
    • 4/5
      Let The Dead Speak is the seventh novel in the Maeve Kerrigan crime series, which is one of my favorites. Maeve Kerrigan is on a homicide team in London, one of only a few woman. She mostly works with Detective Inspector Josh Derwent, with whom she has a complicated and interesting relationship. Josh is attractive and apparently irresistible to women. Although he and Maeve spar repeatedly, Maeve knows Josh would defend her with his life, without question. But she is prickly about taking care of herself, whether or not she always can. Trying to figure out how they really feel about each other is one of the appealing aspects of the series.In this installment, Maeve has been promoted to Detective Sergeant. A new woman, Georgia Shaw, has been assigned to the team as Detective Constable, and Maeve takes a dislike to her. Maeve thinks Georgia was hired to fill a quota and didn’t deserve to be on a murder investigation team. But she feels guilty for thinking that: “…that was exactly how the other members of the team had felt about me when I joined.” They are called to the scene of what looks like a gruesome murder at the flat of Kate Emery. Kate’s 18-year-old daughter Chloe encountered the bloodbath when she unexpectedly returned early from a visit with her father and stepmother. The only problem for the murder team is that there is no body.Chloe goes across the street to stay with the neighbors, the Norris family, who are active in the Church of the Modern Apostles, an evangelical charismatic church. They never approved of Kate, nor of Chloe, but the mother, Eleanor, feels harboring Chloe is the “Christian” thing to do. In addition, Chloe is friends with the Norris’s daughter Bethany.The father, Oliver Norris, insists Maeve investigate a good-looking neighbor boy, William Turner, who was accused of a stabbing some years earlier, but was exonerated. Turner, in Norris's opinion, pays too much attention to the girls on the block, making him a potential sinner. Developments in the personal lives of Maeve and Josh are interwoven into the story. Josh wants to quit because the job is interfering in his new relationship with his girlfriend Melissa and her four-year-old son Thomas. He moved in with them, but Melissa doesn’t like his job:“‘The hours. The stress. The fact that I don’t talk to her about what we do. She says I shut her out.’ He glanced across at me. ‘She’s right. It’s deliberate.’”He’s not only protecting her; he’s protecting himself. “I don’t want her to know about the things I think about.”Maeve reminds him “You wanted to be with Melissa because she was the light in the darkness.” But Maeve is worried for him. She muses:“[Melissa] loved what he did and who he was, I was sure of that. And then she ran up against the reality of his job. He wouldn’t be easy company to live with, whether you understood him or not, but she couldn’t understand him the way I did. I saw what he saw. I heard what he heard. She couldn’t begin to guess why he came home snappy and withdrawn, or why he was short with her now and then.But you couldn’t change him. You’d destroy everything that was good in him if you tried to make him into something docile and peaceful. She’d kill their chance of being happy together unless she accepted him for what he was.”Maeve has problems of her own. It has been a year since her boyfriend Rob left without so much as a good-bye. She is lonely, and can’t help wishing Rob would somehow decide to come back to her. (No one else hopes this; as Josh pointed out in the previous book, “he raped you, he lied to you, and then he cheated on you.” But as is sometimes the case with victims of domestic violence for complicated reasons, Maeve made excuses for Rob, and still wanted to be with him.)Meanwhile, the team finds out more and more strange things about both Kate and her neighbors, and finally a body is found, but it is not Kate’s.Unraveling the twists and turns of the plot keep the reader glued to the pages.Evaluation: Casey held my attention throughout, as she always does. I love her recurring characters, and can’t wait to see what happens to members of the team next.
    • 2/5
      Let the Dead Speak by Jane Casey is the seventh installment in the Maeve Kerrigan Novels. Chloe Emery returns home to 27 Valerian Road in London from visiting her father to find blood in almost every room of her home. DS Maeve Kerrigan (she got a promotion) and her team are assigned the case. There is plenty of blood, but they have yet to find Chloe’s mother, Kate Emery. Maeve starts out by questioning Chloe, and then proceeds to canvas the neighbors. The police bring in dogs to sniff out the victim, but they are unsuccessful. They do, however, uncover some helpful clues. Then Chloe and her friend, Bethany Norris disappear. Were they taken or did they take off on their own? What is going on in this neighborhood (and I thought I had troublesome neighbors)? Maeve, with the help of DI Josh Derwent, must discern fact from fiction to identify the culprit. Maeve will need to work quickly before more blood is spilled. I had a hard time wading through Let the Dead Speak. The writing style is awkward/stilted ((clunky is a good word). The story lacks flow (an easy style of writing) which makes for a hard to read story (insert yawn here). Let the Dead Speak sounded like a thrilling mystery novel, but, in the end, I was bored. The mystery may seem complex, but the solution is not. I solved the mystery early in the book (I would say how early, but then I would be giving away a spoiler). The suspect pool is small. Let the Dead Speak is a novel I read, but I was not pulled into the story or engaged. I did, though, find a great cure for my insomnia (I have suffered from it since middle school). One chapter and my eyes started drooping. I woke up with my ebook nearby and off (happened twice in one night). My rating for Let the Dead Speak is 2 out of 5 stars. I especially disliked the transcript chapter (that is when I fell asleep for the second time). The author needed to add more suspense and a surprising twist (and shorten the book). The basic premise had potential. I do want to warn readers that Let the Dead Speak contains foul language, violence, and intimate relations. Unfortunately, the Maeve Kerrigan series is not for me.
    • 4/5
      This was my fourth book by Jane Casey and as usual, she did not let me down. This one begins with a teenager coming home early from her dad's home from a weekend stay. The real reason why is given later in the book, but the beginning having you believe it was because of her stepmother. And, believe me, if I had a stepmother like that, I don't think I would ever go to my dad's house. She is just one person in a very long list of suspects in this book.The teenager, Chloe, is a little slow and when she opens up the front door to her house, all she can see is blood everywhere. However, because Chloe is what she is, she thinks its dirt and wonders how it got everywhere like it did. On to the investigation, Maeve Kerrigan is called in to determine what actually happened in Chloe's house and the story enfolds into a very strange case.As usual, there is the action and suspense that is typical of any Jane Case book. Also the entertaining and enjoyable factor that I have come to expect with her books. A story that will have you guessing and guessing again and again.Thanks to St. Martins Press and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
    • 5/5
      have only read the first title in this series, so it was nice to re-acquaint myself with Maeve Kerrigan, recently made a DS. Obviously quite a lot has happened in her life in the intervening years.Something appears to have happened to Kate Emery and the police decide to treat it as a murder although there is no body. This allows them to call on more resources than if they were just investigating a missing person. However forensic experts feel that the story told by the blodd spatters in Kate's house don't add up. Kate has left behind her wallet, her credit card, and to all intents and purposes this points to an abduction.Chloe then disappears with the neighbour's daughter and fears are held for their safety. After a couple of days a traumatised Bethany returns without Chloe. Kerrigan's investigation ramps up.The plot explores the relationships within an investigative team, and the roles played by systematic following of procedure, and intuitive leaps.
    • 4/5
      Five stars for the first three quarters of the book; three for the ending.Maeve is now a sergeant, with a new DC, Georgia, working under her. Kate Emery is assumed to have been murdered, given the amount of blood found in her house, but her body seems to have disappeared. Then her daughter and her daughter's friend go missing.This started off interesting and exciting and the Maeve/Josh and Maeve/Georgia relationships worked well. But the ending was just so full of twists and turns that it got a bit over-complicated. SPOILERSI'm still not quite sure how Kate found out what happened to Chloe and I'm confused about how Kate and Oliver and William all ended up in the same place and why. As for Josh and Maeve going off together to use a phone box, leaving Georgia with Kate, that had plot contrivance written all over it. I also found that I anticipated some of the twists - the fact that Kate wasn't actually dead and had used frozen blood and the fact that Morgan was Bethany's father, for example - but maybe I'm just an excellent detective.Now I just need to wait for her to write the next instalment.
    • 5/5
      I received this e-arc for an honest review! Thanks a million!This was my first book from the author I read, although it's number #7 in the series, but it doesn't matter much - the case was brand new and I could follow-up.Let me start with the fact I absolutely loved this one! First, I think Let the Dead Speak is beautiful addition to the genre in general. It was great, interesting and fabulous read, nothing too creepy, although the start brought so much tense as well as through different suspense moments to climax of the episodes that I was ready for anything!The book is page turner, fast read from cover to cover. It's excellent because it's all about the plan, the plan as a base and build up sides, interestingly warped and multifaceted and at the same time united, there was no free gap, no boring scene. Although a little play with the reader.The story is about a deadly death of mother whose body is missing but her death must have been awful as her blood is all over the house... Her daughter and a neighbor call the police when they find the house in its state. The lady and her daughter seems coming from absolutely general lifestyle where a single mum is rising her daughter, the street of the crime scene seems absolutely blank and without anything outstanding, so the team has to do some fact digging..How much I would like to write more I won't because of spoilers, but the book let me discover new detective series I want to go through the previous books in chronological order and read other author's books.
    • 3/5
      Three and a half star rating.A house full of blood but no body - what's going on? This is what Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent have to find out. A very promising first chapter when Chloe, the victim's daughter, returns home earlier than expected and she's met, not by her mother, but an empty, blood spattered house. This was my first book by this author, so didn't know very much about the characters or their histories, but that didn't matter too much. I liked Josh and Maeve, the way they worked together and the villains were suitably bad too. The book was easy to read despite the gruesome parts and certainly kept this reader turning the pages to discover the truth about what really happened in this case. I will be looking forward to the next crime that this pair will solve!
    • 5/5
      Let the Dead Speak – A Brilliant and Enthralling ThrillerLet the Dead Speak is the latest in the Maeve Kerrigan series from the excellent author Jane Casey, and this is a brilliant and enthralling read. Casey delivers more twists than a game of twister, while giving the reader an astute, complex and layered thriller that delivers all the way to the last sentence in the story. Jane Casey knows how to hook a reader like an experience angler fly fishing for the best Scottish Salmon. What makes this such an excellent series is that Let the Dead Speak could be a standalone thriller in its own right, and reading this book will make you want to read those that went before, as Maeve Kerrigan is such a brilliant character. When Chloe Emery returns home early after staying with her dad and step-mother out in Oxfordshire, she finds her west London home covered in blood and her mother nowhere to be seen. Everything points to there being a murder, and the police will need to search for a body and discover what actually happened in the Emery household.Maeve Kerrigan has recently been promoted to a detective sergeant and has somehow managed to stay on the Major Incident Team, and remain under Derwent. She also has to work with a newly installed fast track promotion detective who seems to wind her up at every moment, and sees the position a just another stepping stone to promotion.As the detectives dig deeper at this west London house, the local residents all come under suspicion and nobody is above suspicion. What the detectives do face is a wall of silence, and a plethora of clues slowly building, but pointing in all different directions, putting different people as the possible murderer. What they do discover is that Emery house is one that is full of secrets and packed full of lies and possible sleight of hand about actually happened in that house. While the reader may think, they know whodunit working it out from the clues, then another twist and something to undermine that thought.Jane Casey in Let the Dead Speak, has written a thriller full of suspense, that is complex while being compulsive reading. This book is tightly packed, well researched and well written, so that we get a taut thriller that drives the reader on to want to know more. The characterisation is brilliant, and so easy to like the working relationship between Kerrigan and Derwent, and makes you want to read more about them.This really is a brilliant and enthralling thriller that will not be able to put down.