Homicide Detective Carina Kincaid has seen a lot of gruesome murders in her career, but never one like the murder of eighteen year old college student, Angie Vance. Angie's body is found on the beach in a garbage bag, mistaken for trash. She has been suffocated, her mouth was glued shut and gagged with a bandana, and there are signs of sexual assault. With no clues or DNA left on the body, Carina is stuck on how to solve this murder.

Fortunately, a man named Steve Thomas, thirty nine years old, college student, and ex boyfriend to Angie Vance, reports her missing to the police. Warning signs go off in Carina's head and she is positive she's found the killer. The only problem is Steve is adamant that he did not kill Angie and there is no evidence to prove he did. When Steve realizes the police are investigating him because Angie isn't missing, she's been murdered; he immediately calls his brother Sheriff Nick Thomas. Steve needs his brother's help to prove he's not a murderer. Unfortunately, Nick is a cop first, a brother second. Instead of immediately defending his brother, he jumps into the investigation along side Carina. Nick discovers things about his brother Steve that he wasn't aware of before. He starts to wonder if his own brother is capable of murder.

After finding out about a secret journal that Angie kept online, several questions start to become answered. Angie has a long list of ex boyfriends and mysterious online admirers who could have murdered her. Did Steve kill Angie or is the killer still out there prowling for more victims?

While investigating the murder of Angie, one of her college friends is also found dead. One by one, all of Angie's friends become in danger of a similar fate. Carina and Nick realize the killer is someone Angie talked to on the internet, someone who she might have personally known. While going through Angie's journal, the suspect list grows. Anyone could have found out who Angie was from her journal and murdered her. Has Angie's online activity jeopardized her life and everyone who knows her? Has she sent a crazed serial killer right to her doorstep or was the killer someone close to her that she knew?

SPEAK NO EVIL was everything I could ask for in a thriller. The suspense is non stop from the prologue until the end. The first two sentences of the prologue show you that this is going to be the kind of book that grabs you by your throat and doesn't let you breathe until the killer is found. ''At the very beginning, she had seen his face and knew he would not let her live. She couldn't plead with him; he'd sealed her mouth shut.'' Allison Brennan is truly a master at writing spine tingling, suspense. If you like your mysteries scary, gritty, gory and extremely suspenseful, then SPEAK NO EVIL is the way to go!

Book Summary

Silence is deadly.

The murder of eighteen-year-old Angi Vance was exceptionally vile--her mouth was sealed with glue, an obscenity was scrawled across her skin, and she was suffocated in a garbage bag. The killing seems personal, so police detective Carina Kincaid focuses her efforts on the victim's much older ex-boyfriend, Steve Thomas. But without physical evidence, Carina can't make a collar or a case. She also can't stop Sheriff Nick Thomas, the prime suspect's brother, from conducting his own unwelcome investigation.

Though Nick is still scarred and unsteady from a recent confrontation with a serial killer, he's determined to prove his brother's innocence. But his confidence is shaken when he learns of Steve's dark side, and when a friend of the murdered girl meets a similarly gruesome fate. With no time to lose, Carina and Nick work together to trap a psychopath, before another unlucky woman faces and unspeakable end.