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    The Silent Hour: A Novel

    By Michael Koryta

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    Fresh off the critical acclaim of his Los Angeles Times Book Prize-nominated Envy the Night, Michael Koryta returns with a blistering new installment in the Lincoln Perry series: The Silent Hour.

    Whisper Ridge
    Home to Dreams
    October 2, 1992--April 12, 1996

    So reads the strange epitaph carved beside the door of the home called Whisper Ridge, a multi-million-dollar piece of architectural majesty that once housed the beginnings of a unique program for paroled murderers. The program never got off the ground, however, despite how passionate a woman named Alexandra Cantrell, daughter of a notorious Mafia don, and her husband, Joshua, had been about it. Still uninhabited twelve years later, the house remains as a strange monument to dangerous secrets, falling into ruin as the forest grows up around it.

    While the couple's abrupt exit was unusual, it was also not regarded as suspicious--until the bones of Alexandra's husband are found buried in the woods.

    Private investigator Lincoln Perry isn't thrilled about the situation, or his client: Parker Harrison served fifteen years for murder but claims Alexandra's intervention saved his life. Now he wants to find her--and he's not the only one.

    What seems at first like the simplest of jobs proves to be an undertaking that will challenge both Perry's abilities as a detective and his commitment to that calling. With a new partner to train and a case that leads straight to the heart of the Cleveland organized crime scene, Perry finds himself glancing over his shoulder at every turn, pushing the bounds of safety even as he backs away.

    Once again Michael Koryta has crafted an intricate, lightning-paced thriller, ratcheting up the tension as he explores just how dangerous the offer of a second chance can be. The latest installment in the Lincoln Perry series, which the Chicago Tribune calls "addictively readable," marks another step forward in his incredible career.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 4, 2009
    ISBN9781429963770
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    The Silent Hour: A Novel
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    Michael Koryta

    Michael Koryta is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger. Visit him online at MichaelKoryta.com.

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    • 4/5
      Koryta knows how to weave a fantastic story. In this one Perry investigates a cold case, the disappearance of a married couple after the husband’s body is found in Pennsylvania. The wife’s brother is a supposedly reformed mobster. Perry is hired by a felon who once worked as a groundskeeper for the couple. Although the crime and its resolution were fascinating in this book, Perry’s private life was not. There was a little too much angst for me. I’ll admit I grow weary of some crime fiction characters believing they carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. But otherwise a very well plotted (and well resolved) mystery.
    • 4/5
      This one took me awhile to get into. I started reading it, then put it down for a couple weeks, then restarted. It didn't have as much "I need to know what happens next so I won't stop reading until it's done" in it, but it did leave you with a mystery and had twists and turns like every other Koryta novel.
    • 3/5
      This was a quick read, but not very engaging. Lots of talking, very little action. What action there was, at the end, was pretty good, and two decent twists to go with it! But pretty boring up 'till then. I did love the description of the house in the woods and found myself wishing I could see it! Especially the door that seemed to lead nowhere. It certainly painted a picture for me and I wish it were real!
    • 3/5
      The last of the Lincoln Perry novels: fair to middlin' book. Koryta weaves an engrossing tale with some unexpected twists, The first half was pretty exciting and kept my interest, then the book slowed down in the middle and the ending was disappointing. The mystery wasn't solved until just the last few minutes.The Silent Hour is really for fans, like me, who want to see what happens next....
    • 4/5
      Lincoln receives a call from a convicted murderer wanting to hire him to investigate a 12 year old murder. He was part of a rehab program initiated by a mob guy's sister. The sister disappeared and the husband was found murdered. They lived in a mansion in the woods that has sat empty for 12 years.
    • 4/5
      This was my first glimpse of Koryta’s non-supernatural side, and you’ll have to color me impressed. Lincoln Perry has reached the point in his career that I think every good hard-boiled detective series explores: the point where they have to ask themselves, "Is this still worth it?" Tortured by memories of his partner and girlfriend in mortal danger, Lincoln starts taking more risk on himself, a decision that rarely leads to happy endings. Throughout the story, you’re never quite sure if the mystery is wrapped up in the mob, in drugs, or in something altogether different. All you know for sure is that things are more dangerous than Lincoln expected. It’s never just a simple missing persons case.One thing in particular that I appreciated about Koryta’s writing is that his characters aren’t superheroes. When someone is injured, it affects not only their body but their mind. There’s no getting shot three times and still miraculously chasing down the bad guy here. I haven’t read the other three books in the series, but I had no problem jumping in and connected with Lincoln. He’s everything we look for in a hard-boiled detective. Hard on the outside, soft and gooey within.
    • 3/5
      Ex-con Parker Harrison pesters PI Linc Perry until Perry agrees to look into a case for him.Harrison had gotten into a home for paroled murderers run by wealthy Alexandra Cantrell and her husband, Joshua. Harrison feels that Alexandra's intersssion saved his life. Now, after being missing for twelve years, her husband's body was found, buried in the woods. Harrison wants Linc to find Alexandra.Alexandra is the sister of Dominic Sanabria, a powerful Mafia figure. Soon after Linc begins his investigation, Sanabria visits him and wants to know who hired him.Another PI, Ken Marriman approaches Linc. Merriman was hired by Joshua's parents when he became missing twelve years ago and now he wants to work with Linc in his search for Alexandra. He sees that the advantage of working with Linc is that Linc has contacts with the local police and he's experienced with homicides.Linc is also contacted by Quinn Graham, a police detective who is working on the case of Joshua's remains being found in Pennsylvania. Quinn is a stern law enforcement officer who demands that Linc go through him in any investigation.As the story progresses, the reader can see the frustration investigators have in working a cold case. Linc wasn't too anxious to take ont he case in the first place and when there's another tragedy, Linc puts the case on back burner and goes on with his life. However, something makes him change his mind.The novel is a good study of a man in turmoil and provides an interesting view of how paroled men attempt to adjust to society. The plot is complex with a number of plot twists to keep the reader guessing about the outcome.There was less suspense than in the author's "Tonight I Said Goodbye," but perhaps this was more factual in the manner in which private investigators deal with some of the cases and misfortunes that can occur.The theme of the novel seemed to be that the belief in others that can sometimes be rewarded.
    • 4/5
      A bit disappointing given the excellence of the previous Lincoln Perry novels with the plotline not proving to not be as interesting as well characters that didn't evoke emotions to the same extent. Given his track record though I'm hopeful that is just a small dip.
    • 5/5
      Lincoln Perry has ignored Harrison Parker's letters for several months, but when the ex-con shows up at his office door, he doesn't have much choice but to talk to the man. So, he'll listen and politely decline.Harrison Parker served 15 years in prison for murder. After the prison sentence was fulfilled, he entered a unique program for paroled murderers, a program run by Alexandra and Joshua Cantrell. Parker wants Perry to locate Alexandra, who disappeared with her husband twelve years ago; he's convinced Lincoln is the right man to tell the story and “give us answers to our questions.” The case seems simple enough and despite his determination not to take the case, Perry agrees. Then little by little, he discovers all the details that Parker conveniently left out of his explanation. The details that walk Perry right into the middle of a murder investigation with possible ties to the Cleveland mob.The criminal investigation is really more of a by-product of the main focus of THE SILENT HOUR. Lincoln does have to be a storyteller and find something that is hidden from the world. However, that true search, and thus the conflict, is internal. What Lincoln needs to find most in this novel is his way; the answers to his own questions. Even more than a crime novel, THE SILENT HOUR is a passionate study in character.The depth of every character in this novel envelops you more completely in to the story. While it is told through the eyes of Lincoln Perry, the reader connects with Harrison Parker, with Ken Merriman, John Dunbar, Mark Ruzity. And the emotional investment in Lincoln Perry draws out anguish, frustration, irritation, but still always compassion. This is a Koryta novel that is going to wreak havoc on the spectrum of the reader’s emotions, more so than any of the novels before it. And when Lincoln’s story has finally been told, the reader will forever be changed.