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The Path of Silence
Meg Stanton rides a desk in the cold case unit with the Baltimore PD. Her day starts like any other—with parent-child struggles, a dire need for a large coffee and a partner who is a conglomerate of neuroses. However, it ends like no other day…with a dead body on the hood of her partner’s car that signals a beginning of a strange journey of self-destructing bodies, all fitted with pacemakers that make them vulnerable to the killer. Who is the mastermind behind all this? Who could callously use his fellow man as living guinea pigs for an ingenious new weapon? And how many people will have to die before Meg finds answers even as her life is unraveling around her…?
328 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 10, 2016
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January 26, 2019
This book has a cold case cop and single mother Meg, working a cold case with her partner when a body falls onto his car. There is a massive hole where the victim’s chest should be and they realise he is actually one of their cold case victims, thought to be dead of missing years ago. It gets even more interesting when they find multiple ID’s on the body and the coroner tells them a device was planted in the victim’s chest, which killed them and also destroyed any evidence of the device.
It seems the victim had been staying in a set area and never going further away from a central point, all these years. Someone set this device off and it seems this victim knew it was there and that he couldn’t get too far away. Other bodies start to pile up – with the same destructive holes in their chests – and now more bodies are being piled into the investigation. Due to the role of one of these next bodies, the FBI get involved and we start to learn a little bit more about Meg and her background.
Her daughter has a school assignment, to draw and fill in a family tree. This is made impossible as Meg refuses to tell her daughter who her father was, never mind about any of the rest of her family. There is a link between Meg and the head FBI investigator and this also brings links to her actual family back to the current time.
The devices are very well designed and Meg, her partner and the FBI have to try and trace who has developed them and for what purpose. Finding the mastermind behind it all and what their motive is, won’t be easy. On top of that, Meg has her private ‘home’ bubble well and truly squashed and her daughter questioning everything.
This was another good read from the author. I first found this author through their Peacetaker series and have gone on to buy and read as many of their other books as I can. I only wish that when a book is in a box set that you have bought, that when you see a listing for it as a single book, Amazon would show that you already have it. Luckily most of them have been on offer recently and it is a great time to grab them.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book and felt there was enough input into Meg’s background to let you know why she had left her family behind and never contacted them. The story of how she split with her daughter’s father was somewhat sad and explains a lot about her relationship with her own father and why she has distanced herself from him. Other readers have obviously found this to be insufficient in the build-up of Meg’s character, but I feel that not everything can be fed to you at the beginning of a book. You need to read through and gain the knowledge yourself to ‘picture’ the character in your own mind.
This is the wonder of books – everyone will see characters differently.
I would recommend this book to all and a boxset of this and two other books is currently out with a reduced price point. Grab them while you can, I already have! A novel manner of killing in these books and an interesting single mother and the ghosts in her past to ponder. I received an ARC copy of this book from Hidden Gems and have freely given my own opinion of the book above.
It seems the victim had been staying in a set area and never going further away from a central point, all these years. Someone set this device off and it seems this victim knew it was there and that he couldn’t get too far away. Other bodies start to pile up – with the same destructive holes in their chests – and now more bodies are being piled into the investigation. Due to the role of one of these next bodies, the FBI get involved and we start to learn a little bit more about Meg and her background.
Her daughter has a school assignment, to draw and fill in a family tree. This is made impossible as Meg refuses to tell her daughter who her father was, never mind about any of the rest of her family. There is a link between Meg and the head FBI investigator and this also brings links to her actual family back to the current time.
The devices are very well designed and Meg, her partner and the FBI have to try and trace who has developed them and for what purpose. Finding the mastermind behind it all and what their motive is, won’t be easy. On top of that, Meg has her private ‘home’ bubble well and truly squashed and her daughter questioning everything.
This was another good read from the author. I first found this author through their Peacetaker series and have gone on to buy and read as many of their other books as I can. I only wish that when a book is in a box set that you have bought, that when you see a listing for it as a single book, Amazon would show that you already have it. Luckily most of them have been on offer recently and it is a great time to grab them.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book and felt there was enough input into Meg’s background to let you know why she had left her family behind and never contacted them. The story of how she split with her daughter’s father was somewhat sad and explains a lot about her relationship with her own father and why she has distanced herself from him. Other readers have obviously found this to be insufficient in the build-up of Meg’s character, but I feel that not everything can be fed to you at the beginning of a book. You need to read through and gain the knowledge yourself to ‘picture’ the character in your own mind.
This is the wonder of books – everyone will see characters differently.
I would recommend this book to all and a boxset of this and two other books is currently out with a reduced price point. Grab them while you can, I already have! A novel manner of killing in these books and an interesting single mother and the ghosts in her past to ponder. I received an ARC copy of this book from Hidden Gems and have freely given my own opinion of the book above.
January 17, 2019
This is not my first experience with this author and again I am impressed with her skill and unique storytelling abilities. I received the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Unlike many mysteries I have read, you have an idea of who the suspects are and you try to figure out which is guilty. In this book the crime is both heinous and completely unusual. The victims are found with holes in their bodies that look like their pacemakers imploded causing death and destruction of their bodies.
The book begins when two cold case detectives, find one of their missing persons on the roof of their car outside a 7-11 store. Since the victim is from their case, Detectives Meg Stanton and Ken Whatever are heading the team to investigate this crime. As victims begin to add up, other agencies are brought in to assist including the FBI. As the story develops, more pieces of both the crimes and Meg’s past come into focus.
The story is very compelling and seems realistic because there is no obvious perpetrator. The investigation brings in science and engineering to understand the crime. As some reviewers have mentioned I would have liked more details around Meg and her background. Her story is interesting and probably could have been a book on its own. I wanted more about those relationships.
The book begins when two cold case detectives, find one of their missing persons on the roof of their car outside a 7-11 store. Since the victim is from their case, Detectives Meg Stanton and Ken Whatever are heading the team to investigate this crime. As victims begin to add up, other agencies are brought in to assist including the FBI. As the story develops, more pieces of both the crimes and Meg’s past come into focus.
The story is very compelling and seems realistic because there is no obvious perpetrator. The investigation brings in science and engineering to understand the crime. As some reviewers have mentioned I would have liked more details around Meg and her background. Her story is interesting and probably could have been a book on its own. I wanted more about those relationships.
January 12, 2019
This is an amazing set of stories, written in beautiful language. They deal with relationships, deceptions, unusual happenings, serious crimes, and the rebirth of love. The style of writing makes for easy reading, and the content makes for suspense and emotion. Each of the stories is unique and covers a different locale and characters. In the first, a body is discovered in Lake Union in Seattle and that kicks off a series of disputes and issues . The second story is sprinkled throughout with strange murders where each victim has a solid hole bored through his chest, and the victims are all named Michael and own a late model Altima. The victims are found near mysterious explosions that appear to vaporize an entire area without affecting anything else. The final story covers the impact of a body found in the office of a young graduate student. The plot develops into a life and death contest between the student and a very rich and powerful man. Each of the stories is very compelling, and each is very special in its own way. I thoroughly enjoyed all of these books.
January 16, 2019
The storyline of this book was very original. While there was room for better character development and description, the writing was well done. The plot flowed well and explained just enough to not give anything away but also not make you crazy waiting for the information. The story pulled you through the chapters and left you continuing on even after you swore you would be done for the night. There was also enough twists in the story to not make it predictable. The motive and key players were pretty well wrapped up and explained in the end so as to not leave the reader left hanging or expecting more. All in all very unique story idea that was well executed.
June 11, 2023
Murder by exploding chests. Meaghan Stanton and Bill Leahman are Baltimore Maryland police officers. The book starts out with a bang, literally. A body lands on the hood of Bill's car, and it has numerous sets of driver's licenses. The victim had an explosive device surgically implanted in his chest, and he's not the only one. Now Meg and Bill have to find the other possible victims and the murderer. I read this book as part of the 4 book collection Path of Silence - Book Set Anthology.
August 31, 2019
So many twists you'll lose track
Rarely do I read a mystery where I don't suspect the real perp by 1/2 way thru...this one stumped me. And I kept turning pages long into the night. You'll enjoy this intelligent plot twister that challenges your mind and twists your heartstrings a bit too...
Rarely do I read a mystery where I don't suspect the real perp by 1/2 way thru...this one stumped me. And I kept turning pages long into the night. You'll enjoy this intelligent plot twister that challenges your mind and twists your heartstrings a bit too...
January 17, 2019
This story started rather slow and took awhile to get to the 'main attraction' of this story in my opinion. After that it was a good read that kept my interest even with all the technical jargon. Not a bad mystery with some sci-fi thrown in. I reviewed a copy of this book from Hidden Gems.
December 23, 2023
Riveting!
The Path of Silence by Edita A. Petrick is a riveting thriller of medical misconduct. Brilliant from start to finish with a human touch that kept me reading all day until I finished.
The Path of Silence by Edita A. Petrick is a riveting thriller of medical misconduct. Brilliant from start to finish with a human touch that kept me reading all day until I finished.
August 29, 2020
Bizarre concept
The murder method was so gruesome -talk about blood and guts! And the plot twist intriguing. The family ties an interesting aside
The murder method was so gruesome -talk about blood and guts! And the plot twist intriguing. The family ties an interesting aside
October 19, 2016
The Path Of Silence is a police crime mystery set in Baltimore. Meg Stanton is a single mother and a cold case homicide cop. The book opens with a late night stop at a 7-Eleven for Meg and her partner, when they return to their car they find it covered by a body with an exploded chest.
The victim has 10 different fake ID's on him and has been a missing person for the last 4 years. Cause of death - an exploding pace-maker. A second victim explodes in the private hotel room of a top US banker and Meg is forced to face a man she's been hiding from for ten years. Meg and Ken soon find themselves on the path of a serial killer who can inflict death at the flick of a switch.
When the FBI are called in to help solve the case Meg's home-life starts to collapse, the man who walked out of her life, now faces her across a briefing room. Forcing herself to focus on the job, they chase a possible money laundering ring with fingers deep in political circles.
This book has a good opening setting and a well paced story follows, I liked Meg and her feisty approach, this book touches on family relationships and there's a chance of romance too. A few red herrings and twists lead to the identity of the cold blooded killer.
The victim has 10 different fake ID's on him and has been a missing person for the last 4 years. Cause of death - an exploding pace-maker. A second victim explodes in the private hotel room of a top US banker and Meg is forced to face a man she's been hiding from for ten years. Meg and Ken soon find themselves on the path of a serial killer who can inflict death at the flick of a switch.
When the FBI are called in to help solve the case Meg's home-life starts to collapse, the man who walked out of her life, now faces her across a briefing room. Forcing herself to focus on the job, they chase a possible money laundering ring with fingers deep in political circles.
This book has a good opening setting and a well paced story follows, I liked Meg and her feisty approach, this book touches on family relationships and there's a chance of romance too. A few red herrings and twists lead to the identity of the cold blooded killer.
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