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K. L. Slater (Author), Lucy Price-Lewis (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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This morning, I was packing up lunches, ironing, putting on the laundry I should have done last night. Now my precious daughter is accused of murder.

When 10-year-old cousins Maddy and Brianna are arrested for a terrible crime, Maddy’s mother, Juliet, cannot believe it.

How could her bright, joyful daughter be capable of such a thing?

As the small village community recoils in horror, the pressure of the tragedy blows Juliet and her sister’s lives apart. And things get even worse when their daughters retreat into a self-imposed silence. Can anyone reach Maddy and discover the truth before her fate is sealed?

Juliet is crushed. Nothing will ever be the same for her darling girl. But she knows that to find out what really happened that day, she and her sister must unlock the secrets of their own terrible past, a past they swore never to speak about again.

The most unputdownable psychological thriller you’ll listen to this year from the best-selling author K. L. Slater. If you love The Wife Between Us or Gone Girl, you’ll be totally hooked on The Silent Ones.

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7 hours and 35 minutes
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K. L. Slater
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Lucy Price-Lewis
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October 2, 2019
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English
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Audible Studios
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B07VMTKXVJ
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Listening Length	7 hours and 35 minutes
Author	K. L. Slater
Narrator	Lucy Price-Lewis
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	October 02, 2019
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07VMTKXVJ
Best Sellers Rank	#12,080 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #175 in Psychological Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #436 in Psychological Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) #1,196 in Psychological Fiction (Books)

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Nail NutTop Contributor: Coloring

Omg freaking fantastic read

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2019

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Talk about a dysfunctional family. I You feel like you have a dysfunctional family, read this book. It will make you feel better about your own family. I don't want to write much about the storyline because I don't want to spoil anything. This book has so many twists and turns it makes you feel like you have whiplash, but in a good way. I read this book in one day, could not out it down. And the ending, holy cow. Thrilling ride from beginning to end. Highly, highly recommended this book and author. I haven't read a bad book by K. L. Slater. Now stop reading reviews and go read the book. You won't be disappointed, I promise.

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Another grand slam from KL Slater

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2019

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What a cracking good thriller! I've greatly enjoyed all her books and this one is excellent. There are so many twists and surprises it's stunning. I love her writing. I finished this in one day because it was impossible to put it down. Not kidding! If you love a really gripping psychological mystery, get this one ASAP. Highly recommended!

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DPuckett

Fantastic!

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2019

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Loved this book! KL Slater has a way of writing a book that truly has you guessing the entire way through! As with most psychological thrillers, this includes family drama, secrets and lies.

Juliet has a new business and a troubled sister who is ice cold. Their daughters are accused of murdering an older woman and remain silent until a very good psychologist comes to interview them. Then all heck breaks loose.

This story is not just about the two girls, it is also about past abuse, guilt and lies. It captured me from the start and held me until the the very end!

There is nothing better than devouring every page!

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msj

Wonderful.

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2019

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Loved everything about this book. Being an avid reader this book was everything i expect in a book. Had no clue whodunnit!!

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Pheadra Farah

Excellent family drama

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2019

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Whenever K L Slater has a new book out, I immediately buy it and halt my other reading material pushing her book to the top of the pile. The Silent Ones is an excellent example of why I keep reading her stories which are told in a way that keeps the reader glued from the first page.
This particular story is a family drama filled with intrigue and sadness in equal measure and kicks off with the assault of an old pensioner in her home, who dies a short while later in hospital. The two suspects are 10-year old cousins Maddy and Brianna who, after being picked up as suspects, don't utter a word. The reason for their silence forms the backdrop to a dysfunctional family and how quickly lives unravel when secrets are kept and lies told. 4 and a half stars.

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Linda S. Prather

A family drama that kept me turning pages!

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2019

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This is actually my first book by K. L. Slater and I really enjoyed it, although it was much different than my normal crime/thriller reads. I didn't read the reviews prior to deciding I wanted to read it. I was a little shocked by some of the lower ratings on Goodreads when I did read them, although I understood several of the points made. It isn't a fast-paced crime thriller and I'm not sure I could classify it as a dark psychological read.

It is a complex read with multiple characters and lots of information to follow and sink in as you're led through a family drama. Two mothers examining their current and past lives as they struggle to understand why their daughters have been accused of a horrible crime they couldn't possibly have committed. I loved the role of Dana who had her own past issues to deal with, a mixed up love life, and a strong desire to find the secrets the family was hiding. My heart went out to Julie and her young son as the town turned against them more than willing to believe her daughter was a monster.

It's difficult to say more without giving away spoilers, and I'd much rather you enjoyed the book yourself and found the answers to the questions that it will raise in your mind. A very entertaining read and one I can easily recommend to those who enjoy something out of the norm. I'll definitely be reading more of Ms. Slater's work.

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Ron K

Speak No Evil

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2019

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The Silent Ones by K. L. Slater is described by the author as “An absolutely gripping psychological thriller.” The self-description serves as a subtitle, and the author fully delivers on the promise. I could spend a lot of time trying to count the twists in this novel, but the time is better spent in reading. This five-star thriller should assure a readership willing to pay for eight of the other books the author has written. There is one additional novel that will appeal to readers who are conversant with Italian. The Silent Ones sells on Amazon for USD 0.99; the remaining Slater novels sell for USD 3.99. No Slater books are available through Kindle Unlimited. The Silent Ones is so impressive I am sure I will pay a higher price than I usually do to read other K. L. Slater novels.

The term “dysfunctional family” is used to describe aberrations in familial relationships on different levels. A story of sibling disputes might earn the description. With this novel, the family is dysfunctional through three generations. Maddy and Brianna act out a very substantial conflict about who has committed a possible crime. Their mothers, sisters Chloe and Juliet, have had conflicts from their childhood over the death of a sibling. The battle continues into their adult lives over the power roles in a shared business and mutual accusations over which daughter is responsible for the accident with Bessie. Ray and Joan are the parents of Chloe and Juliet. Joan completely dominates and emasculates Ray as the parents hide secrets from their daughters and emotionally favor Chloe over Juliet. Readers can decide how much this has further affected Chloe and Juliet’s raising of Maddy and Brianna. Secrets abound on all three levels with more than enough twists to fill the sixty-one chapter, three hundred two-page book.

We first meet two cousins, Maddy and Brianna, who exhibit the central conflict for the story. Maddy is usually confident, unassuming, and kind. Brianna is dominant, prone to having temper tantrums, and is not above bending the truth. Could these be typical ten-year-old children? The two are looking for fun during the last days of summer vacation, and they decide to visit old lady Bessie Wilford, something they have done several times before. Bessie is advancing through stages of Alzheimer’s Disease, but during her lucid moments, she recounts interesting stories while serving cookies and lemonade. On their most recent visit, Bessie has an accident after waking suddenly and striking her head. Maddy and Brianna become alarmed in the presence of unconscious Bessie and run from the room. When Bessie is found unconscious, police bring Maddy and Brianna to a police facility for questioning. Things turn serious when Bessie dies. Someone will be charged with responsibility for Bessie’s death.

Secrets are revealed by communicating in many forms, but primarily by talking. When police brought Maddy and Brianna into the station for interviews, the two refused to speak. Not one word. The two don’t even look at each other. Maddy and Brianna didn’t talk to the police, family therapist consultants, lawyers, their parents, or even each other. Their failure to communicate was a fascinating part of the novel for me as I have been involved in many interrogations. The cousins adopted the only effective resistance method to an interrogation, complete silence, but I found it difficult to believe two ten-year-old subjects held out so long.

It was bad enough that parents/grandparents Ray and Joan had always favored Chloe as a child; this family relationship continued into adulthood. Chloe and Brianna lived with Joan after Chloe’s husband, Jason, abandoned her. Chloe, therefore, spoke more often to Mom and always got her version of events to Joan before Juliet. An uncomfortable feeling of resentment, but not jealousy, consumed Juliet. A business run jointly by the sisters was not going well. Juliet, founder and theoretically dominant partner in the firm, felt that Chloe was telling all her business problems to Joan while neglecting routine business tasks and even deceiving Juliet about business problems.

Most readers will focus on Juliet as a likable, confused, and caring character. Juliet knows there are secrets but can’t figure out how to discover them. There are furtive looks between family members that will lead Juliet to believe husband Tom is having an affair. It is Juliet we watch as she tries to figure out whether daughter Maddy is responsible for a crime while at the same time trying to meet the contract deadlines of her struggling business. Dana, a family therapist and consultant to the police, will try to help Juliet and all members of the family in discovering the truth of the accident/crime as well as the hidden truths of the three-tiered family. Dana will also contribute secrets to the story as we learn about a past mistake that nearly disgraced Dana’s therapist career for good.

Lots of twists and turns in this fast-paced novel make this a book to schedule for reading in one session. Between chapters forty and forty-one, I experienced a shock that had nothing to do with content but with the timeline. Not every reader will experience this. I was so caught up in the story that I felt a temporal jolt. It was a form of a twist in a story with many twists. In the genre of psychological thrillers, I highly recommend The Silent Ones and consider it an excellent choice for a book club discussion.

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michaela dean

awful editing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2019

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Wow how bad is this editor ? For example the interview finished at 3.15 then it was 2.30???? many many mistakes. It was a mediocre story that would have been enjoyable had there not been so many errors. I ended up looking for 'spot the error' more than reading the storyline.

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D. Taylor

Do murderers really confess this easily?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 13, 2019

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A slightly unusual subject matter, therefore I was expecting to be intrigued and entertained. However, the story never really developed after the first few chapters. I felt like it was going round and round in circles just describing mundane interviews and dropping in a few hints that all was not well before the incident with the two girls. The back story, when it eventually reached it's conclusion, was ridiculous to say the least, with an entire family colluding in hiding the truth and misdirecting blame for no apparent reason. As for the confession by the old lady's murderer at the end of the book, well it was akin to a villain willingly (and very conveniently) confessing to a crime in Scooby Doo.

21 people found this helpful

YorkshireFrankie

A disappointing ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2019

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I was really gripped by this story of two ten year old girls, Maddy and Brianna, who are accused of murder, and the family dynamics are intriguing, and I couldn’t put it down. But I found the ending rather rushed and not very credible, which spoilt it rather for me. Some slight editing issues too - Lizzie leaves Dana suddenly at the end of an evening together, and Dana is left thinking it’s all over, and the next morning they are breakfasting together, and you are left confused as to when they made up! And the timing issues don’t come over as very credible either. The whole story takes place in just over 24 hours in the police station, but the main characters seem to have time to go off and check work, and meet people, and it leaves you a bit breathless! Having said that, I still enjoyed most of it.

10 people found this helpful

Dee Groocock

A gripping psychological thriller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2019

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2 sisters run a business but things are not as they seem. When their 10 year old girls are both arrested for assault and then murder of an elderly lady, their worlds start to fall apart. Is all as it seems, are these girls capable of murder? Why won’t either of them speak to their parents or the police? What is going on between the 2 sisters and their parents, so much built up tension between them all, surely that also affects the 2 cousins.
This book turns what you believe and expect on its head. It was interesting how a little village can turn against long term residents, even without all the facts. Great characters throughout the story and so many secrets in one family. A brilliant storyline, I highly recommended this book.

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G. Pidler

Kim Slater a winner everytime and this is the best yet!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2019

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I finished this book last night in bed. I have read everyone of Kim's books and thoroughly enjoyed every single one but I think this one is the best yet. This story draws you in from page one with wonderful yet complex characters and the story moves at a good pace. Did these two ten year old girls really attack this old lady? They're not speaking and the lady bought in to try and encourage them to do so thinks that there's more to the entire family than on the surface. This book weaves in and out of the different characters lives, the two little girls, their mothers who are sisters and their parents. After the girls are bought in for questioning on the attack other things in Juliet's life start to crash down around her, why is this happening? Who is responsible for everything going wrong, is it due to the public outcry against the family or is someone else involved? This story will lead you a merry and very fun dance to it's explosive conclusion where several truths will come out.
Kim Slater is a force to be reckoned with in the literary world and I cannot wait for her next book!!

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