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After a U.S. marshal and her prisoner are gunned down outside of London’s Heathrow Airport before the prisoner can testify against her boyfriend, the head of a violent animal-rights group, Leeds Detective Sergeant Keen Dunliffe doesn’t seem like the right man for the case. But with an American federal agent dead and homegrown terrorists on the loose, Keen’s undercover experience and knowledge of Yorkshire—the terrorists’ backyard—come into play.

He’s ordered to head up a sting operation with Rachel Colver, an inexperienced police constable, who may have personal ties that will help her infiltrate the animal-rights group. However, Keen is worried about a ...

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After a U.S. marshal and her prisoner are gunned down outside of London’s Heathrow Airport before the prisoner can testify against her boyfriend, the head of a violent animal-rights group, Leeds Detective Sergeant Keen Dunliffe doesn’t seem like the right man for the case. But with an American federal agent dead and homegrown terrorists on the loose, Keen’s undercover experience and knowledge of Yorkshire—the terrorists’ backyard—come into play.

He’s ordered to head up a sting operation with Rachel Colver, an inexperienced police constable, who may have personal ties that will help her infiltrate the animal-rights group. However, Keen is worried about a plan that puts Rachel in obvious peril. The two hunker down and start working the case from the inside—while at the same time the most widespread outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease ever to strike the English countryside is decimating livestock.

Brutal extremists and police politics collide in a plot involving murder, intimidation, smuggling, and blackmail—with lethal consequences—in Kingdom of Silence, the second mystery in Lee Wood’s richly imagined and superbly nuanced series featuring DS Keen Dunliffe.

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Set in early 2001, Wood's solid second mystery to feature Yorkshire Det. Sgt. Keen Dunliffe (after 2005's Kingdom of Lies) opens with a bang. Kim Prescott, a veteran U.S. marshal on the verge of retirement, is escorting convicted felon Eunice Connor on a flight to the U.K., where Connor is facing charges stemming from her role in a violent activist group, Justice for Animals Defense Alliance. Soon after the plane lands at Heathrow (and just as the reader thinks the sympathetic Prescott is going to play a major role), an assailant on a motorcycle shoots both Prescott and Connor to death. The authorities suspect JADA's leadership may have wanted Connor silenced. Teamed with the requisite wet-behind-the-ears young partner, Dunliffe doggedly follows leads to get the goods on the group. A subplot centering on an outbreak of hoof and mouth disease raises the ante, though fans of contemporary British police procedurals won't find much to distinguish this one from the many others already out there. (Feb.)

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During an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease in Britain in which thousands of farm animals are slaughtered, Yorkshire police are trying to solve the murder of a U.S. Marshal and her prisoner, who was to give evidence against a violent animal rights group. Detective Sergeant Keen Dunliffe (Kingdom of Lies) must sort through overlapping cases, work with inexperienced officers, and come to terms with his personal troubles. If you love animals, keep a box of tissues handy. For collections where British procedurals are popular.


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Something is killing the best animals in England. It's 2001 when the first unobtrusive but unmistakable signs of Foot-and-Mouth Disease are spotted. Anxiously, MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food) takes corrective steps. In the blink of an eye, however, these measures accelerate into wholesale culling, the slaughter of cattle, sheep, pigs and goats in a tragically counterproductive attempt to gain control of a disease teeming with ugly ramifications. Meanwhile, certain activist groups have been using the turmoil to further their radical agendas. One headline-seeking clan coldly guns down an FBI Special Agent traveling in England on special assignment. An unintended consequence of the brutal murder is its galvanizing effect on DS Keen Dunliffe (Kingdom of Lies, 2005), who, bored and depressed, has been marking time in a dead-end post under a know-nothing boss. Suddenly, Keen is in play again, dispatched to North Yorkshire as a key figure in an undercover operation aimed at bringing down the terrorists' brutish leader. It's an operation fraught with danger and unforeseen complications, and when the smoke clears Keen finds himself irrevocably changed-as a cop, certainly, but in more fundamental ways as well. Wood, who made her bones in science fiction, has now produced two exemplary police procedurals that are authentic and appealingly character-driven. Agent: John Silbersack/Trident Media Group

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312340315
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 2/17/2009
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 8.56 (w) x 5.82 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

LEE WOOD is the acclaimed author of three science-fiction novels, including Looking for the Mahdi. Born in Connecticut, she now lives in New Zealand.

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  • Posted February 12, 2009

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    excellent police procedural

    In 2001, with hoof and mouse disease leading to the slaughter of cattle, veteran US Marshal Kim Prescott escorts convicted felon Eunice Connor, a member of the violent Justice for Animals Defense Alliance (JADA), from the UK to the States. Their plane stops at Heathrow where the law enforcement official and her prisoner disembark when a motorcycle rider shoots Prescott and Connor; killing both.

    Authorities on both sides of the pond assume JADA secrets were kept concealed by silencing permanently Connor. Yorkshire Detective Superintendent Keen Dunliffe leads an undercover operation to bring the JADA chief to justice using tyro Constable Rachel Colver as bait; a plan he dislikes as Rachel may easily become collateral damage. Nothing goes smooth on the maneuver, but Dunliffe keeps a stiff upper lip as he tries to complete the mission and get Rachel out safely; two goals that seem in conflict.

    The second Yorkshire Dunliffe police procedural (see KINGDOM OF LIES) is an action-packed thriller that starts with an explosive opening and never slows down through a volatile middle until the explosive climax. Dunliffe is terrific as he struggles between the moral dilemmas of the potential sacrifice of one person vs. the safety of many. JADA also adds ethical questions though the group has chosen to sacrifice humans for their animal rights cause. Fans of British police procedurals will enjoy this fine entry even if the operation is somewhat by the sub-genre book.

    Harriet Klausner

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