Let the Dead Speak: A gripping new thriller

Let the Dead Speak: A gripping new thriller
Jane Casey

From award-winning author Jane Casey comes a powerful crime thriller, with a delicious edge of psychological suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page…If you only read one crime book this year, make it this one!A murder without a bodyEighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns to her West London home one day to find the house covered in blood and Kate, her mother, gone. All the signs point to murder.A girl too scared to talkMaeve Kerrigan is determined to prove she’s up to her new role as detective sergeant. She suspects Chloe is hiding something, but getting her to open up is impossible.A detective with everything to proveNo one on the street 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…

JANE CASEY

Let the Dead Speak

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

Copyright © Jane Casey 2017

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Source ISBN: 9780008149017

Ebook Edition © March 2017 ISBN: 9780008149000

Version: 2017-07-05

Dedication (#uca7c8fc2-7de6-5dff-a549-b9edd58ca220)

For Ariella Feiner, with love and thanks.

Epigraph (#uca7c8fc2-7de6-5dff-a549-b9edd58ca220)

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Romans 7:19

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#u3de0e0ea-d0bf-56a0-b7f0-cae9c3990ea9)

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Dedication (#u12578171-4762-54a5-b0c9-5706f524cd7b)

Epigraph (#ue38f57c8-c3cb-54a7-8ff2-05fb9400c056)

Chapter 1 (#u1e2b1431-c3f6-50b6-ad96-4d9f69781026)

Chapter 2 (#u2250e9f9-ae3e-5222-81dd-ddba6fc1eeee)

Chapter 3 (#u77d51ae6-c464-5fe3-b916-97e0ba4ebf84)

Chapter 4 (#u7169f0dd-51fc-5b21-a236-966c7987b43e)

Chapter 5 (#ud51b208e-722e-5177-9a9b-0d5323d0a36f)

Chapter 6 (#u59e1e845-7ba6-542a-81bd-d507158c0b05)

Chapter 7 (#u2c3e6851-f46f-5a1f-b33a-5d9c3061f3b4)

Chapter 8 (#u6ceb8744-1506-566e-82ac-5b2190d4e7cc)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)