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Silent Victim Kindle Edition

by Caroline Mitchell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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An Amazon Charts bestseller.

Emma’s darkest secrets are buried in the past. But the truth can’t stay hidden for long.

Emma is a loving wife, a devoted mother…and an involuntary killer. For years she’s been hiding the dead body of the teacher who seduced her as a teen.

It’s a secret that might have stayed buried if only her life had been less perfect. A promotion for Emma’s husband, Alex, means they can finally move to a bigger home with their young son. But with a buyer lined up for their old house, Emma can’t leave without destroying every last trace of her final revenge…

Returning to the shallow grave in the garden, she finds it empty. The body is gone.

Panicked, Emma confesses to her husband. But this is only the beginning. Soon, Alex will discover things about her he’ll wish he’d learned sooner. And others he’ll long to forget.

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333 pages
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Thomas & Mercer
Publication date

1 Mar. 2018
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“Silent Victim is fast-paced, twisty, and it chilled me to the bone…I loved every minute of it!” —Robert Bryndza

“The very definition of a page-turner. Unreliable narrators mean you never quite know where you stand until it all builds to a richly satisfying climax. A fantastic psychological thriller.” —John Marrs

“Brilliantly gripping and deliciously creepy. Make sure you clear your day as you won't be able to put Silent Victim down!” —Sibel Hodge

“Dark, shocking, and utterly compelling.” —Mel Sherratt

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For Emma, life couldn’t be better. Together with her husband, Alex, and their four-year-old son, she has the perfect family. But there is a terrible secret lurking in Emma’s past, and it’s clawing to break free: Emma is a murderer.

Nevertheless, her story, and the endearing compassion she shows for her loved ones, drew me in completely. I thought I could trust her, that she was a good person at heart—despite her admission from the first page that she killed her manipulative schoolteacher, who seduced her at the age of fifteen. Although Emma gets her revenge, Caroline Mitchell’s intricately drawn hints of suspicion made me feel that there was something hidden from view. A truth even more sinister than I thought—and one that made me doubt who the victim really was until the last page.

As a former detective who investigated violent crimes, Mitchell is no stranger to the most depraved elements of human nature—that much is clear in this Gone Girl-esque thriller. Incredibly suspenseful, with a fast-paced style that does not relent until the final word, Silent Victim vocalizes the dreaded question inside all of us: “What are my loved ones capable of?”

Sometimes murder isn’t the worst answer…

- Jack Butler, Editor

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B071G5W8HC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas & Mercer (1 Mar. 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1715 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 333 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1542046629

Best Sellers Rank: 6,837 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 623 in Psychological Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- 711 in Psychological Thrillers (Books)
- 1,010 in Crime Thrillers (Kindle Store)

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New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post and International #1 Bestselling Author. Shortlisted by the International Thriller Awards for best ebook 2017, the Killer Nashville Best Police Procedural 2018 and the Audie awards 2022. Over 1.5 million books sold.

Caroline originates from Ireland and now lives in a village outside the city of Lincoln. A former police detective, she has worked in CID and specialised in roles dealing with vulnerable victims, high-risk victims of domestic abuse, and serious sexual offences. She now writes full time.

Caroline writes psychological and crime thrillers. Her stand alone thriller Silent Victim reached No.1 in the Amazon charts in the UK, USA and Australia and was the winner of the Reader's Favourite Awards in the psychological thriller category. It has been described as 'brilliantly gripping and deliciously creepy'.

The first in her Amy Winter series, Truth And Lies, has been optioned for TV.

You can follow Caroline on Twitter at @Caroline_Writes and www.Facebook.com/CMitchellAuthor

Sign up to her reader's club for news, updates and a free short story here: https://caroline-writes.com

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Excellent!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 April 2018

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From the perspective of the girl who is groomed into an underage relationship with her teacher, this psychological thriller could have been dark, but instead the subject is told from her adult perspective and that of the man responsible who from the first page we know she has killed and buried in the field at the back of her father's house. Why? And if he did die that day, who is now stalking her? Being ex- CID Mitchell writes with fluid authenticity and a prose that draws you in, leaving each chapter on a cliff-hanger. The pace was mid-range, but I raced to finish this brilliant psychological thriller because I wanted, hoped, the lead would be alright in the end. There were moments where the reader is hit with another revelation or shock that for me always rang true to the story. For such a poignant subject matter I didn't feel the emotion as strongly as I thought I would, hence the four stars, but this is not a reflection of Caroline's writing. I think I've just read far too many crime thrillers that cover gritty subjects. I was late to the party, but now I've had a taste, I will be reading more from Mitchell's library of revealing and well-written novels.

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Welsh Poet

Big Disappointment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 January 2019

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After all the 5-star reviews for Silent Victim, I was expecting something a lot better, but this was a big disappointment. It's basically a standard stalker story, but let down by flat writing, poor pacing and characters that don't come off the page. The best part is Luke's "grooming" narrative, set in 2002/3, which is compelling and chilling - and Emma's interaction with Luke during that period is also good. But the later "murder" and "stalker" threads are contrived, implausible and ridden with clichés. Emma the adult mother doesn't seem to have grown up at all - she still behaves like the troubled schoolgirl of 15 years ago. She doesn't command our sympathy and her irrational behaviour simply becomes irritating. And the issue of Jamie's paternity was the last straw! Her husband Alex is little better: he constantly deceives his wife and then absconds with their young son! And why would he meet Luke secretly and not tell Emma? And how does he hold down a high-powered job in Leeds while spending most of his time in Essex? Too many things that don't make sense. Not recommended.

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Tara

Predictable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 February 2019

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I read this book in one day- because I had time and because I wanted to see if there would be a good enough twist to make it worth the effort of reading to the end. There was not.
This is a very interesting and serious theme but the plot was very shallow and predictable and the characters one dimensional. Impossible to warm to any of them. The jumping back and forth in time left lots of gaps, a significant ommission being the details of the attempted murder.
Even though the book was somehow gripping (I needed to know how it would end) it was unsatisfying, poorly written and overly sensational.
Disappointing. Don't bother reading when there are so many similar, much better written, thrillers out there.

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sujay

Gripping

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2018

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I purchased this book as my Kindle First choice in February and I have to say it was the best book I have read in a while. From the beginning you are hooked into the story of Emma, who you think has the perfect life, a wonderful husband, a beautiful son and a blossoming business. But, not everything is as it seems and as the story unfolds we learn of Emma's teenage years and how she has been shaped by events of the past. Each chapter is told from the point of a different character and gradually, as the story unfolds we wonder who is the one to believe. It shows how the same series of events can be interpreted quite differently when viewed from another perspective.

This book had me totally hooked and I am sure it will stay with me for a long time. I will definitely be purchasing more from this author and would recommend you give this book a read if you like a good psychological drama.

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Decent plot but clumsy writing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2021

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Close to a single star rating, but at least it moved along at a good pace and wasn't a tedious read. The basic plot was a decent idea - that's the positives out of the way. I couldn't identify with any of the characters and none of them were in the least bit likeable, in particular the "main" character, Emma, who was a pathetic whiner. All three of the main characters had regular internal monologues where they chopped and changed their minds and had ridiculous ideas. What stuck out most though, was the writing style. Caroline Mitchell constantly writes sentences such as, "Closing the door behind her, she took a seat at a front-row desk.", "Picking up the poker, I poked at the logs." and "Turning around, she closed the door and pulled across the bolt." This is clumsy writing at its best, and Silent Victim is full of it. Other reviewers don't seem bothered about it, and good luck to Caroline Mitchell for writing books that people want to read. It's not for me though so I guess there's no accounting for taste.

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Jacky N

Same old rubbish churned out today with the description of 'Thriller'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 February 2019

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Unlike many of the reviews about this book I was very disappointed and fail to see how people liked it so much. Far far too much unnecessary words to pad the book out and had no substance. Extremely boring and stereotypical characters. Writing was ok at best but plot was unrealistic to say the least. grooming by teachers does happen and as a police officer the author would of seen the consequences of this first hand and could of written a very interesting and true reflection of the devastation it could cause. But instead went down the route of the silly, unrealistic, long drawn out thriller favoured by so many wanna be thriller writers today.

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