Keeping Silent

Rating:
Summary: Super Suspense
Review: Ms. Damron has with Keeping Silent, given us wonderfully real characters. She had me hooked from page one. I was pulling for Caleb and Sam. I forced myself to not read the last page first, just so I would see if I could guess who done it. I didn't. Major applause, this is a terrific mystery. Caution, once you start it, you won't put it down.

Rating:
Summary: Super Suspense
Review: Ms. Damron has with Keeping Silent, given us wonderfully real characters. She had me hooked from page one. I was pulling for Caleb and Sam. I forced myself to not read the last page first, just so I would see if I could guess who done it. I didn't. Major applause, this is a terrific mystery. Caution, once you start it, you won't put it down.

Rating:
Summary: Keeping Silent keeps your interest!
Review: This is a terrific first novel from up and coming author Carla Damron, a native of the South Carolina area she writes about. The story starts off slow and drowsy, like a hot, hazy summer day in a small southern town. Slowly but surely, you realize that not everyone's taking it easy, especially the protagonist, social worker Caleb Knowles, whose deaf brother Sam is accused of murdering his deaf fiance Ann visciously and brutally. With its finely drawn characters (including a few you love to hate), the author keeps the plot twists coming deftly and you think you know whodunnit until the last two pages! Ms. Damron has paved the way to the further adventures of Caleb Knowles with a second novel, Spider Blue due out in June 2003. A definite must have for any suspense lover.

Rating:
Summary: Keeping Silent keeps your interest!
Review: This is a terrific first novel from up and coming author Carla Damron, a native of the South Carolina area she writes about. The story starts off slow and drowsy, like a hot, hazy summer day in a small southern town. Slowly but surely, you realize that not everyone's taking it easy, especially the protagonist, social worker Caleb Knowles, whose deaf brother Sam is accused of murdering his deaf fiance Ann visciously and brutally. With its finely drawn characters (including a few you love to hate), the author keeps the plot twists coming deftly and you think you know whodunnit until the last two pages! Ms. Damron has paved the way to the further adventures of Caleb Knowles with a second novel, Spider Blue due out in June 2003. A definite must have for any suspense lover.

Rating:
Summary: Someone make her write another one!
Review: This is one of those books you covet finding because it allows you to immerse yourself in the locale and the characters and shut out the stress and mundane of everyday existence.

Ms. Damron is a storyteller of the first order and anyone with any sense will buy this book and take advantage of that fact!

Rating:
Summary: A murder mystery with a twist
Review: While seeing a client, Westville, South Carolina social worker Caleb Knowles receives an urgent call from the police demanding he immediately come to his brother's home. Caleb arranges for someone else to complete his schedule and quickly races to Sam's home. There he learns that someone brutally murdered Sam's fiancee Anne Farrell. The police suspect the deaf Sam killed his beloved, also deaf, using one of his wooden sculptures as the murder weapon.

Caleb believes his older brother would never harm the woman he loved and planned to marry. When patient Melanie Carson mentions her boss Mr. Edinger in a nasty incident and another client Percy Elias links Edinger with Anne, Caleb feels he knows who the killer is. However, to prove that is very dangerous to Caleb and his family, friends, and associates.

KEEPING SILENT is an exciting amateur sleuth tale filled with twists and turns that will surprise the audience as the plot never loses focus. Caleb is a completely likable person due to his warm relationships with everyone around him. On the other hand, Sam broods too much for the audience to connect with him though readers know he mourns his loss. Not retaining a lawyer at the onset seems rather stupid, yet the plot never slows down for even a paragraph. Carla Damron provides a fabulous debut novel that centers on a powerful who-done-it with subplots involving mental health care and insight into individuals overcoming a silent world.

Harriet Klausner