The Silent Cry

The Silent Cry

Novel , 1997

Headline / Penguin Random House

(Monk Series, 8)

In sunless Water Lane, respected solicitor Leighton Duff is found, kicked and beaten to death. Beside him lies the barely living body of his son, Rhys. The police cannot fathom these brutal assaults until Monk uncovers a connexion between them and a series of rapes and beatings of local prostitutes. Then shockingly, it begins to appear that young Rhys may have killed his own father...