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    The Silence of Murder

    Written by Dandi Daley Mackall

    Narrated by Emily Rankin

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    Seventeen-year-old Hope Long's life revolves around her brother Jeremy.  So when Jeremy is accused of killing the town's beloved baseball coach, Hope's world begins to unravel. Everyone is convinced Jeremy did it, and since he hasn't spoken a word in 9 years, he's unable to defend himself.  Their lawyer instructs Hope to convince the jury that Jeremy is insane, but all her life Hope has known that Jeremy's just different than other people—better, even. As she works to prove his innocence—joined by her best friend T.J. and the sheriff's son, Chase—Hope uncovers secrets about the murder, the townspeople, her family, and herself. She knows her brother isn't the murderer.  But as she comes closer to the truth, she's terrified to find out who is.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 9, 2012
    ISBN9780385361484
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    The Silence of Murder
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    Dandi Daley Mackall

    Dandi Daley Mackall loves God, children, words, and animals. Her nearly 500 books for children and grown-ups have sold more than four million copies worldwide. She won the ECPA Christian Book Award for Best Children’s Book 2015 and multiple Mom’s Choice Awards, as well as ALA Best Book, NY Public Library Top Pick, Children’s Book Council Award of Excellence, and the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children’s Literature. Her novel My Boyfriends’ Dogs is now a Hallmark Movie. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her family, including horses, dogs, cats, and an occasional squirrel, deer, or raccoon.  

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    • 4/5
      Fast paced, and well structured.
    • 5/5
      This is a great book. Don't get put off by it's creepy title like I did-- its fantastic.
    • 5/5
      This excellent mystery, an Edgar YA winner in 2012, tells the story of Hope Long who is convinced that her brother Jeremy is not guilty of killing baseball coach John Johnson. Since Jeremy is autistic and selectively mute, he can't explain why he was running away from the barn where Johnson was found. That the murder weapon was his own wooden bat doesn't help either. Hope knows that her brother couldn't have done that but she is alone in her opinion. Her brother's lawyer and her own mother are trying for a Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity defense. Hope decides that she needs to investigate if she wants to clear her brother.Her companions in the investigation are TJ who is her only friend in town and Chase who is the son of the sheriff and who spends summers with his father. She and the boys try to find other suspects. Could it be the coach's wife who is dying of cancer? Is it another member of the baseball team that Johnson coached?This story was intensely emotional. I loved Hope's determination to prove her brother innocent. I loved that she knew about all of Jeremy's quirks but still thought he was special and wonderful. I felt bad for her and for Jeremy because of the mother they had. Rita was extremely self-centered and an alcoholic who dragged her kids all over the country before returning to her home town picking up men all along the way to give her "loans."The writing was excellent and the pacing in this story helped build the tension as Hope comes closer and closer to finding out who really killed John Johnson. I recommend this mystery to all ages.
    • 3/5
      A boy with special needs is on trial for the murder of the town's beloved baseball coach, and his sister is determined to prove he didn't do it. This isn't a regular courtroom drama. Rather, it's about how ordinary people react to unusual people. Sure, there is a bit of whodunnit, but mostly it's about poor versus privileged. Don't go into it looking for a police procedural either, because the police work is pretty shoddy. I'm not saying this was a bad book. It wasn't. It's just not your standard murder mystery. The characters were believable and reasonably likable. It was a nice diversion but I won't go looking for Mackall's other books.
    • 4/5
      A sister Hope, her special needs older brother Jeremy, and a sketchy single mom, Rita, - this is who we are introduced to in the opening chapter, a memory from Hope of her brother's first "song" he sings from God, as he calls it, while they both wait, half freezing in the back seat of a car in the middle of winter, watching Rita leave another guy. This is the last day Hope remembers Jeremy speaking - he becomes voluntarily mute ever after. While the opening is a bit confusing, the novel quickly moves to the present in chapter 2 - we are at the trial of the murder of the local baseball coach, John Johnson, and Jeremy, now 18, is the accused. Hope desperately wants to help exonerate her brother, but their court-appointed lawyer, and her mom believe they can only get Jeremy off on an insanity plea (due to his mental impairment). Very quickly we are immersed in the tiny Ohio town of Grain, population less than 2,000, and Hope's world - trying to help make ends meet at the local cafe where her mom also waitresses, and trying to get by in a small high school she doesn't feel she really belongs in. T.J., baseball pitcher and smart student, has become a friend and together, with the help of Chase, the sheriff's son who's also a pitcher for the local team, they begin their own "investigation", certain that if they can find some evidence, they can bring it to Jeremy's lawyer and provide reasonable doubt in the jury's minds. As the book progresses, the clues Hope looks for, and the past of all the characters, including Hope's mom - she went to high school in Grain, and dated the murdered coach- begin to build. Hope's growing relationship with Chase, her fear as she realizes someone is watching her movements and placing anonymous phone calls to "leave it alone", and her struggle to continue to believe in her own brother's innocence all add to the tension. I THOUGHT I knew who had really killed Coach Johnson, but the book moves swiftly to the closing arguments of the prosecution and then the defense, and we learn the importance of Jeremy's unusual hobby of collecting empty jars and who REALLY killed the coach. Pacing, readability, and the realistic struggles as well as fierce love and loyalty of Hope, the teen narrator, all make this an exciting read for teens.