When “All good books have one thing in common
they are truer than if they had really happened.” -Ernest Hemingway
P.R. WHITE, in his exciting debut novel, reminds us why the Crime Fiction genre is one of the fastest growing genre in contemporary fiction. The feverish suspense, the blood-rushing adrenaline, the high-octane action and mystery, he left no stone unturned.
Next To Silence opens us up to a world of systemic corruption, cruel injustice and revenge. The plot revolves around three women who, hemmed in by the circumstances around them that were beyond their control, made choices that would turn the world they lived in upside down.
Helen Ipswitch is a prostitute who resigned from her work after the birth of her daughter. Left to care for her daughter alone after her boyfriend abandoned her, she tries to survive by looking for other jobs that didn’t involve selling her body to men. At the brink of hunger, her manager at the brothel rings her for a one-time job. She refuses at first but, faced with the reality of continuous suffering, finally gives in. She goes to the brothel and meets her client, a police officer who murders her after a confrontation.
Katrina Ipswitch is the daughter of Helen Ipswitch. Now grown-up and ravishingly beautiful, she learns the truth of her mother’s death from her dying grandmother who raised her. She returns to the town where her mother was killed with only one thing in her mind: revenge. She begins to target police officers, using her seductive powers to bring them to their death.
Rosy Lawson is a detective inspector who working with the Town’s police department. Caught in-between healing from perpetual disappointment in her relationships with men, and navigating her relationship with the new man in her life, she maintains her steely focus that has made her the best in her job. As the deaths begin to ripple through out the department, she and her partner, Keane Butland, is tasked with the responsibility to bring the mystery killer to book. What seems to be a straightforward case of catching a serial killer blows up into the career-ending revelations of the cover-up of the murder, and the sex trafficking ring in the brothel aided by the police department.
Rosy finally comes face to face with Katrina who tells her to expose the truth about her mother’s death as that’s the only way the killings will stop.
The novel explores the full, damaging effects of injustice and corruption to a society and the consequences that follow when the victims decide to take matters in their own hands. This is a tense, deeply engrossing novel that will keep you turning the pages till the end.
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Author Bio:
P.R WHITE is a talented writer with a gift of immersive storytelling. His works intersect warmly with the supernatural. Next To Silence is his first novel.
