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Remains Silent

by Dr. Michael M. Baden
Michele Santopietro
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From Michael Baden (former New York City chief medical examiner, chief forensic pathologist for the New York State Police and for the U.S. Congress investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and host of the hit HBO series Autopsy) and Linda Kenney (civil rights attorney and guest legal commentator on Court TV, CNN, and MSNBC), a masterful debut crime novel–the first in a stunning new series in contemporary suspense–that brilliantly mines the worlds of forensic science and law and introduces an irresistible crime-fighting team.
Philomena “Manny” Manfreda is a crusading attorney for the disenfranchised. Five years out of law school, with an apartment not much bigger than one of her beloved Prada shoe boxes and a burgeoning reputation as one of the city’s fiercest litigators, Manny is an unabashed shopaholic who changes her hair color weekly, carries her poodle, Mycroft, everywhere, and whose idea of therapy is the preparation of an eight-course Italian meal.
Dr. Jake Rosen is the deputy chief medical examiner of New York City, a confirmed workaholic and bachelor who lives alone in an oversized nineteenth-century Manhattan brownstone littered with morbid memorabilia and forensic artifacts, and who divides his life between the autopsy table and Chinese takeout.
When a body is unearthed beneath the construction site of a mall near the Catskill Mountains, Jake is called to the scene by his elderly mentor, Dr. Pete Harrigan, to examine the bones. Further investigation reveals a gruesome discovery: additional skeletal remains with striking abnormalities. After one of the victims is identified, the family of the deceased retains Manny to represent them, and, with Jake, she is swept into a terrifying vortex of murder and deceit, where a mounting body count hides both a shocking cover-up and a devastating love story.
A chilling debut that introduces a major new voice in crime fiction.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Jake Rosen & Manny Manfreda Novels

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 16, 2005

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780739345917
      • File size: 214237 KB
      • Duration: 07:26:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Michele Santopietro provides an up-tempo reading of this cross between "Moonlighting" and "CSI." Skeletal remains are unearthed at a mall site in Upstate New York. Police probing reveals that someone is covering up more than skeletons. As the investigation unfolds, "Manny" Manfreda, attractive, slave-to-fashion, smart-alecky trial attorney meets Jake Rosen, the handsome, intelligent, well-respected medical examiner. Predictably, their relationship turns into mutual attraction amid an action-packed, scientifically engaging plot. Santopietro goes a little overboard with Manny's wisecracking insights, and her secondary characters aren't clearly voiced, frequently sounding too high-pitched and ingenuous. Even so, her energetic narration helps keep the romance steamy and the forensics smart, witty, and fast paced. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 20, 2005
      Married couple Baden, former New York City medical examiner, and Kenney, legal commentator for CNN and Court TV, team up for this debut thriller starring a romantic and professional pair with job titles remarkably similar to their own. Dr. Jake Rosen, deputy chief medical examiner for New York City, gets a call from his beloved mentor, Dr. Pete Harrigan, who as county medical examiner in his retirement upstate, has just been handed a pile of bones dug up in an excavation for a new mall. After Harrigan identifies the bones of Korean War vet James Albert Lyons, who mysteriously disappeared in 1963, Jake suggests that Lyons's daughter hire an attorney, Philomena "Manny" Manfreda, a fashionista spitfire who specializes in representing the downtrodden. On their first date, Jake takes Manny to dinner and then to an emergency autopsy, where they banter cute while he dissects the corpse. After Harrigan dies of apparently natural causes, the body count rises, the romance between Manny and Jake heats up and soon nefarious experiments by the government come to light. Pedestrian writing and an implausible ending detract from this vehicle for Baden and Kenney's medical and criminal expertise. 11-city author tour.

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