[Eric Rickstad] The Silent Girls (2014) - epub - zeke23

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The Silent Girls
by Eric Rickstad
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11  ·  rating details  ·  27 ratings  ·  11 reviews
With the dead of a bitter Vermont winter closing in, evil is alive and well …

Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective's badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of Canaan find an '89 Monte Carlo abandoned by the side of the road, and the beautiful teenage girl who owned the car seems to have disappeared without a trace.

Soon Rath's investigation brings him face-to-face with the darkest abominations of the human soul.

With the consequences of his violent and painful past plaguing him, and young women with secrets vanishing one by one, he discovers once again that even in the smallest towns on the map, evil lurks everywhere-and no one is safe.

Morally complex, seething with wickedness and mystery, and rich in gritty atmosphere and electrifying plot turns, The Silent Girls marks the return of critically acclaimed author Eric Rickstad. Readers of Ian Rankin, Jo Nesbø, and Greg Iles will love this book and find themselves breathless at the incendiary, ambitious, and unforgettable story.




Acclaimed author and Shelburne native Eric Rickstad’s new literary psychological thriller “The Silent Girls,” from HarperCollins, is already creating a buzz since its release Nov. 25.
One reviewer called it: “A gripping, dark, psychological thriller. If you are a fan of dark crime mysteries, suspense, and psychological thrillers, then “The Silent Girls” is a must read.” While others have said “It’s a bone-chilling mystery. It will have you staying up late, afraid to turn out the light.” And all reviewers have lauded the shocking, shattering ending, one writing: “a whale of an ending that left me with my mouth hanging open.”
Set in the Northeast Kingdom, “The Silent Girls” is about Frank Rath, a single father and private detective who retired early from being a state police detective after his sister and her husband were murdered, leaving their baby daughter Rachel orphaned. Rath has devoted his life to raising Rachel and trying to keep her safe from the truth about her parents’ deaths and from people like Ned Preacher, the man who killed her parents and is up for parole.
With Rachel off to college, Rath is drawn into the disappearance of a girl that may be linked to other disappearances and macabre murders; and eventually puts Rachel into the very danger Rath has tried to protect her from all her life.
When asked why he departed from the literary style of his first novel REAP, a widely heralded New York Times Noteworthy novel, to more commercial crime novels, Rickstad laughs. “The only thing that’s changed is how my novels are marketed. REAP was crime novel, but was marketed as a coming of age novel. And “The Silent Girls” is every bit as ‘literary’ as REAP.”
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