

The Price of Silence
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Narrator: Anna Fields
Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2006
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Narrator: Anna Fields
Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2006
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Kate Wilhelm (1928–2018) was the bestselling author of dozens of novels and short-story collections. Among her novels are the popular courtroom thrillers featuring attorney Barbara Holloway. Her other works include the science fiction classic Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang.
A re-read but one that I appreciated even more than the first time. The story was a slowburn, the characters very fleshed out and believable, there was a sliver of the paranormal & there was enough of the unusual to capture me once again.......more
In dire need of a good paying job, Todd Fielding and her husband, Barney, move to a small town in Oregon where she becomes the editor of a local newspaper. She's been at her new job for only a few weeks when a local teenager has been reported missing. The police aren't too worried, saying she probab......more
First of all.......the main couple in the story are young, beautiful and intelligent......BUT.......who would want to name these type of characters 'Barney and Todd'.......Todd being the beautiful woman that is the catalyst of the story.....seriously "Barney and Todd" sounds like a "Bert and Ernie"......more
Picked it for a Nailbiting Mystery thriller, but it was just a mystery read. A small town Girls missing mystery, with a laidback lazy kind of story. But the writer had done a good job, the story setup, the small town and it's history, The Newspaper publishing, the eerily cold atmosphere all makes up......more
It's been long enough since I picked this up at a library book sale that I'm not entirely sure what hooked me enough to make me bring it home. I'm willing to bet that the fact that Todd is married to a grad student and so there is a very loose academic connection was part of it. I'm surprised that t......more