Silence Once Begun

For a whodunit to be considered well-written, it must leave readers racking their brains trying to work out who the murderer is. But a whodunit that makes the reader entirely forget the crime and its perpetrator might be considered brilliant.

And this is the risky gamble at the core of Jesse Ball's Once Silence Begun: a subversion of the very essence of crime novels that turns it into something different, something more where the who, how or why no longer matter.