"Prepare for your heart to ache in this compelling crime drama as it walks alongside a family after their beloved son and brother is murdered."
Powerful writing ensures emotions are kept leaning out over a cliff edge in this shockingly intimate story that is simply impossible to put down. Returning home after her younger brother Denny is murdered and all witnesses insist they saw nothing, Ky determines to discover the truth. Debut author Tracey Lien sets the scene during 1996 in a Sydney suburb full of refugee families. The sense of place hit me, low down in my gut, I could feel the emotions of those living there, as well as see in vibrant colour. There are regular glimpses into Ky and Denny’s childhood which grounds the novel and allows access to the family as they learned to cope with a new country after leaving Vietnam. I could feel the past affecting the future with every step I took. It also gives Denny a voice, ensures he is known. The pain felt by Ky and her parents after Denny’s murder transferred into my heart and soul, into my bones. As Ky moved through her investigation, the people she met stepped fully formed off of the page, I had a real sense of each person, and what influenced their every decision, even though at the start of the book they were just a name, a witness, essentially a bystander. The ending sent a wave of goosebumps travelling through me, it felt intensely personal, and held me in its arms as I read. All That’s Left Unsaid is provocative, moving, and actually rather beautiful even as it tears down defences and leaves you feeling emotionally raw. Deservedly sitting as a LoveReading Star Book, Liz Pick and Debut of the Month I want to shout about All That’s Left Unsaid, I want to shake it in front of peoples faces and thrust it into their hands, here, read this book!
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Closing date: 04/07/2026
They claim they saw nothing. She knows they're lying.
1996 - Cabramatta, Sydney
'Just let him go.'
Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends. That night, Denny - optimistic, guileless Denny - is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, and an indifferent police force.
Returning home for the funeral, Ky learns that the police are stumped by her brother's case. Even though several people were present at Denny's murder, each bystander claims to have seen nothing, and they are all staying silent.
Determined to uncover the truth, Ky tracks down and questions the witnesses herself. But what she learns goes beyond what happened that fateful night. The silence has always been there, threaded through the generations, and Ky begins to expose the complex traumas weighing on those present the night Denny died. As she peels back the layers of the place that shaped her, she must confront more than the reasons her brother is dead. And once those truths have finally been spoken, how can any of them move on?
All That's Left Unsaid features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Debut Books of the Month, Debuts, Crime and Mystery, Family Drama, General Fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues, Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes, Recommendations, Book Club Recommendations, Star Books, Sharing Diverse Voices, Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, Refugees and political asylum, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Interest qualifiers, Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people, Social and ethical issues, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences, Social discrimination and social justice, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month
All That's Left Unsaid is available in Paperback, Hardback
All That's Left Unsaid was written by Tracey Lien and published by HQ an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
All That's Left Unsaid has 339 pages
£8.99
