Silence
Thomas Perry
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
<p>Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do.<p>The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let the true employer know their identities, finishing the job is no longer enough. Their fee just went up.<p>Full of masterful plotting and unnerving psychological insight, <I>Silence </I>is a mesmerizing thrill ride.