Shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2009.
CWA Judges’ comments: ‘No Way To Say Goodbye is set in a high security mental facility for the criminally insane. Jack Keyses works there, intent on tracking down the presumed abductor and killer of his girlfriend Rachel who disappeared without trace. The grim reality of sex offenders and their obsessions and histories is authentically and chillingly exposed here.
The most frightening thing about the book was the obsessions of Keyses which turn out to be not so very different from some of the patients. A sense of edgy despair pervades this very taut novel.’
Jack Keyse is looking for the truth about what happened to his vanished lover. He works at a maximum security asylum, and he uses his professional contacts to get close to those who might be responsible. At the same time he seeks forgetfulness in the chaos of his dissolute life.
| Primary Genre | Crime and Mystery |
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Jack Keyse is looking for the truth about what happened to his vanished lover. He works at a maximum security asylum, and he uses his professional contacts to get close to those who might be responsible.
No Way to Say Goodbye features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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No Way to Say Goodbye was written by Rod Madocks and published by Five Leaves Publications
