Guilt by Silence First of all, let me say this is not a current book. I picked it up at the used paperback store because I had read other books by this author. If you’re fortunate enough to have an inexpensive source for paperbacks, you might like this mystery. David Tardiff, a brilliant physicist, his
wife Mariah Bolt, a CIA employee, and their daughter Lindsay are stationed in Vienna.
Mariah usually takes Lindsay to the American School, but one day ten months ago David
takes her. There’s an explosion and he is left almost a vegetable and his daughter is
crippled. Four months later, Mariah brings them back to suburban Washington DC…David
to a nursing home, she and Lindsay to a new home and life. It’s now early
winter. Just a few weeks ago, five nuclear weapons experts, two Americans and three Russians, were killed in a fiery accident near Taos, New Mexico. They had worked at the Los Alamos lab and the feds were very interested in the useless remains of the accident. Why? Are these two ‘accidents’ tied together in any way? Mariah is being stalked. Paul Chaney, a journalist Mariah met in Vienna, is back in the States and is trying to contact her because of info he has about the Vienna accident. Mariah confronts her boss, Frank Tucker, to find out what’s what and gets nowhere. Paul and Mariah forge a partnership to get to the bottom of the nastiness. As the plot thickens, there are several twists and turns to keep you interested and surprised. Who can Mariah trust? Who hired the stalker? What secrets have you or your loved one kept from each other? |