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DEAD SILENT
Neil White
Digging for the truth can be fatal…20 years ago, Britain was rocked by the strange disappearance of Claude Gilbert, after the beaten corpse of his wife was discovered hidden in the garden. Worst of all, scratches found on her makeshift coffin signal that the unthinkable took place - Nancy was buried alive.Conspiracy theories say hotshot barrister and handsome TV presenter Gilbert murdered his wife and then killed himself, but with no body ever found, the mystery has remained unsolved. Until now…When Lancashire crime beat reporter Jack Garrett is contacted by someone claiming to be Gilbert's girlfriend, and that he needs him to write the story proving his innocence, Jack eagerly leaps on the chance to clear a decades-old enigma.But as Jack sets off on the trail of Gilbert - and the news scoop of his career - he quickly finds that the truth is stranger than the headlines. And as Jack chases the story, he and girlfriend Laura McGanity, attempting to earn her sergeant stripes in the local police force, quickly become pawns to a twisted individual with their own agenda…
NEIL WHITE
Dead Silent
AVON
Dedication (#ulink_24f5601c-31ae-58cb-b1a9-ca8f9f8666fc)
To Thomas, Samuel and Joseph, as always
Contents
Title Page (#u3b883301-0f4d-57cd-af2a-1341edcc1bca)
Dedication (#u71dc02b8-14d0-568b-8021-69b705eea8da)
May 1988 (#u8cefc2f7-7262-5cb5-b066-488b51f5437a)
Chapter One—Present Day (#ue656eca1-b45a-5dac-86ee-539cf8ff4f94)
Chapter Two (#ub58584d5-42a9-54dc-bd22-e940c9b50d23)
Chapter Three (#u49520ce8-fa1c-571e-ac3f-bb9d8e73da95)
Chapter Four (#ud2f7eeb0-bbb5-5473-99f7-087e09765952)
Chapter Five (#u1432505a-44ba-5397-a1de-7681e2255f9e)
Chapter Six (#ucd1619fc-df9f-5f81-be26-37aacf0441fd)
Chapter Seven (#udc1faf59-6c2d-525d-8b8a-35863534d8ac)
Chapter Eight (#u81f1d238-66fd-5c5b-9fe0-2086b51190c2)
Chapter Nine (#ucc13613f-7733-5c06-9bfc-a454cb024fc5)
Chapter Ten (#u5af930d8-224a-53ad-be31-7ae064db9de0)
Chapter Eleven (#uda73e28e-ce9f-5501-831f-7c9eb1836542)
Chapter Twelve (#u5d0f8899-5f05-5eee-a568-c853b9fec4eb)
Chapter Thirteen (#u1aea4e69-0be6-58ce-8ed7-13dec26d1036)
Chapter Fourteen (#ud51b1744-ce4c-5463-ab96-8b2351356f8f)
Chapter Fifteen (#u71175a1d-89f4-5eb0-988f-f2546bda677a)
Chapter Sixteen (#u7443d9e6-5eb8-5f2e-acec-2a0c544d279e)
Chapter Seventeen (#u53ace8dd-dbe3-529b-a3ad-e73bcaa74644)
Chapter Eighteen (#u1ddddedc-b864-5efa-8831-a51b5f6a906d)
Chapter Nineteen (#ue08ad1ea-d5c9-5075-b2c2-319c447a173c)
Chapter Twenty (#u02d691f9-6f6d-524c-8e23-8530dfa3a86a)
Chapter Twenty-One (#uedc7454f-7387-503a-b2b9-1cce6069e177)
Chapter Twenty-Two (#u724d59ce-5f30-55d1-96d1-3c9a58c4f5f5)
Chapter Twenty-Three (#ua76d8adf-d35f-5a7c-9e6b-202fcdb5772d)
Chapter Twenty-Four (#udd324452-6136-58c2-938c-fe98c3fa34fc)
Chapter Twenty-Five (#u1c723b3b-a5f1-547f-af5b-42e34dde53f9)
Chapter Twenty-Six (#u308a9ef6-3e5f-5a1a-9c0b-b42bf83e8242)
Chapter Twenty-Seven (#uba5bc82e-90ab-551b-95ab-1947040a7c43)
Chapter Twenty-Eight (#u03faf7f9-157c-5580-bcde-d0c014fe960a)
Chapter Twenty-Nine (#u90e7c9b0-6ffc-5272-8b9d-dc3c2f329586)
Chapter Thirty (#u5945d711-b0ef-55bb-84a2-f4b45eb3e656)
Chapter Thirty-One (#u597c5fb4-59fa-5dda-aaa9-0d76a7f845f7)
Chapter Thirty-Two (#u48a3f9df-9942-5a84-bd18-e7db80d8be86)
Chapter Thirty-Three (#u184260a6-b86a-5319-9ee8-cd7d6016e80e)
Chapter Thirty-Four (#u9890dfd4-74dc-572b-8123-ec708b280789)
Chapter Thirty-Five (#uc0cc215f-929f-5a0f-a7c0-05f37907e601)
Chapter Thirty-Six (#u68d1e064-9d1b-5c77-902a-37c0d414477c)
Chapter Thirty-Seven (#u43c25f87-dd3c-504a-872c-d16d44b8898c)
Chapter Thirty-Eight (#u426fea7d-6a07-5f29-9911-79016d697cc7)
Chapter Thirty-Nine (#ud6ff4c10-be17-5988-afe7-e637cf108ba5)
Chapter Forty (#uce56f6e8-1249-5709-a159-9aede8d726ea)
Chapter Forty-One (#u41367ba7-4219-5c0b-8956-a486ff956684)
Chapter Forty-Two (#ua79f6202-c2a3-5dbe-bae8-5f4f26a34e8e)
Chapter Forty-Three (#u04d0531f-1a10-53b6-a1d3-13141ba2114d)
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Chapter Forty-Seven (#ud7f929ea-06e0-5b91-b765-7bad3295fac6)
Chapter Forty-Eight (#u7e327d5d-a723-594f-9256-16373f371526)
Chapter Forty-Nine (#u9e7f8e7d-ccfc-5273-ba88-ad0860dac325)
Chapter Fifty (#uf5a768ef-1632-5783-a967-2ce78e4ed293)
Chapter Fifty-One (#u4253b78c-4fba-59ea-a041-a617d2071a07)
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Chapter Fifty-Seven (#uc41ae84b-831a-56f3-8b16-0d846728e8bf)
Chapter Fifty-Eight (#ude6af353-0288-5454-afce-3446257292ad)
Chapter Fifty-Nine (#ud82d5cc3-269f-58eb-bdd5-d495cdd7e3d2)
Chapter Sixty (#u112bb56d-2114-51c8-83ff-2e1529ee7aa9)
Chapter Sixty-One (#u7f2e68b0-26fb-5b55-adbd-5e6bb42f1392)
Chapter Sixty-Two (#uda1726b9-c6c6-5cc9-90a5-3bb4b9a1b088)
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Chapter Sixty-Six (#ue9ccb539-34b9-5c81-bd94-4863a237069e)
Chapter Sixty-Seven (#u0fd571e3-2e98-5929-8f21-6e6157caaeea)
Chapter Sixty-Eight (#u0a07d99e-8e1f-538b-93b6-5ed0e0f5563b)
Chapter Sixty-Nine (#u0b8c5ae6-757e-55b3-9c87-39697488d74c)
Chapter Seventy (#u6144ab3f-69f0-5dd0-a578-0c3031a0f55a)
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Chapter One (#u417cac9f-915c-5689-aaa3-a1b0011c7db2)
Chapter Two (#u0957c4ad-7170-55b0-be65-02b147eaf910)
Chapter Three (#ucdcb22cd-3ac6-55b4-88bf-28dcdd81b541)
Chapter Four (#ua9c30ea8-d9d1-50a2-8d64-8c2db8f0501d)
About the Author (#uc7cce675-91a7-52d4-969d-5d77a47b3c86)
Author's Note (#u06526ebe-ac29-5ccd-9dfd-3615b1b38f21)
Other Works (#ue722cb66-b8ba-53fc-936c-b4a1f413cffb)
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About the Publisher (#u9c341032-73e3-5138-a03f-b01166a361b9)
May 1988 (#ulink_0753d81c-20b5-5988-9751-3de3f84c24ad)
Bill Hunter looked through the wrought-iron gates as he came to a halt outside Claude Gilbert’s house. He wiped his forehead with his sleeve, the interior of the police car heavy with the first real promise of summer, and turned to his passenger, Paul Roach, a fresh-faced young officer with scrubbed cheeks and the swagger of youth on his side.
‘Do you know why houses like this are on a hill?’ Hunter said, and pointed towards the large Edwardian property, a square block of sandstone walls and white corners, roses creeping around the edges, a wide gravel drive leading to the doors at the front.
Roach didn’t seem interested, responding with a shrug.
‘It kept the professionals out of the smog when the mills were running,’ Hunter continued. ‘It was peasants like us who had to live in the valley, where the smoke from the chimneys choked us every day.’
