num_pages: 396
description: Feeling burned out, Jury takes an unplanned stopover in Yorkshire and books a room at a cozy inn called the Old Silent. Violence finds him anyway when he becomes the only witness to a murder. Though Nell Healey shot her husband in cold blood, Jury will go to any lengths to help her, including taking sick leave from Scotland Yard to investigate. Calling on his old friend Melrose Plant for help, he must break through Nell’s reticence to untangle a web of twisted motives—and twisted lives....
language: English
title: The Old Silent
titlecomplete: The Old Silent (Richard Jury, #10)
characters: Richard Jury, Melrose Plant, Mrs. Wasserman, Alfred Wiggins, Carole-anne Palutski, Chief Superintendent Racer, Fiona Clingmore, Stan Keeler, Marshall Trueblood
genres: Cozy Mystery, British Literature, Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 5637
places: Yorkshire, England
series: Richard Jury 
publisher: Onyx