SUFFER IN SILENCE by Graham Masterton

 3* Has too many things going on, and nothing felt entirely believable.

I've not read a GM book since his horror heyday, and probably shouldn't have bothered with this.

The female lead is supposedly in a happy relationship with a judge, but gets into bed naked with a female subordinate, and doesn't hesitate to make a move on her before belatedly coming to her senses - this is despite just having reassured the judge that if she commits to marrying him, she'll be faithful. Hmm.

Then there's the nursing home with the strange vibes and the residents forced to rewrite their wills in favour of the owners, under actual torture. With the aid of a corrupt solicitor. How was this not spotted by the regulators? How were the repeat deaths not considered suspicious? Do Irish authorities not inspect care homes or do DBS checks on employees? 

The PIP aspect really, really, really deserves a strong warning of graphic animal cruelty. I had to skip several pages because of this. 

The book had 2 Seans, which made for confusing reading. One Darragh died and another character called Darragh appeared after being introduced as another D-name.

The Husain aspect felt entirely unbelievable. A pensioner-age man living in a room in a high-end department store, that the authorities have no record of coming into the country - a millionaire, who's a flight risk, and a suspected rapist and killer - and he's given bail? When there's a handwritten letter by his son that practically confirms the former?

Feedback to the team at Aria and Aries, will be fairly brutal. ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Aria and Aries, for my reading pleasure. 



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