The Quiet Child, John Burley
The Quiet Child, John Burley
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The Quiet Child
A Novel

Author: John Burley

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/08/2017


Synopsis

From the award-winning author of The Absence of Mercy, comes a gripping and darkly psychological novel about family, suspicion, and the price we are willing to pay to protect those we love the most.It’s the summer of 1954, and the residents of Cottonwood, California, are dying. At the center of it all is six-year-old Danny McCray, a strange and silent child the townspeople regard with fear and superstition, and who appears to bring illness and ruin to those around him. Even his own mother is plagued by a disease that is slowly consuming her.Sheriff Jim Kent, increasingly aware of the whispers and rumors surrounding the boy, has watched the people of his town suffer—and he worries someone might take drastic action to protect their loved ones. Then a stranger arrives, and Danny and his ten-year-old brother, Sean, go missing. In the search that follows, everyone is a suspect, and the consequences of finding the two brothers may be worse than not finding them at all.

About John Burley

John Burley is the author of The Absence of Mercy, honored with the National Black Ribbon Award; The Forgetting Place; and The Quiet Child. He attended medical school in Chicago and completed his emergency medicine residency at University of Maryland Medical Center and the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. He continues to serve as an emergency medicine physician in Northern California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Victoria on October 07, 2017

An easy read that I got through pretty quickly. A bit slow in the middle but the last 1/3 is great! Starts off with a kidnapping that could so easily be like so many other missing children, traumatised parents, stories... and if it had been just that I would've switched off early doors. But there's......more

Goodreads review by Deb on August 16, 2017

I am going to try to review The Quiet Child as vaguely as possible, because it is a book that could easily be spoiled with too many details and if you like dark and twisty thrillers, you will want to go into it not knowing too much about it. It's set in 1954 Cottonwood, California--interesting to me......more