Deadly Silents (A Del Rey Books) [Mass Market Paperback]

Lee Killough (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; First Edition edition (February 12, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345287800
• ISBN-13: 978-0345287809
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,826,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I have been storytelling almost as long as I can remember, starting somewhere around the age of four or five with making up my own bedtime stories. In grade school the stories became episodes of my favorite radio and TV shows, predating the fan-written Star Trek literature by decades. Then, in keeping with wisdom that says the golden age of science fiction is about age eleven, at that age I discovered science fiction and fantasy. That first SF novel hooked me on SF and fantasy. But along with the pleasure of devouring this marvelous literature came fear. I lived in a small town with a small library and I saw I would soon read the section dry. So to keep from running out of science fiction, I began writing my own. And because the mystery section adjoined the SF/Fantasy section, leading me to discover mysteries about the same time as SF, my stories tended to combine SF with mystery. They still do, resulting in supernatural mysteries and urban fantasy...with a noticeable fondness for cops. Vampire cop Garreth Mikaelian hunts killers in Blood Hunt and Bloodlinks (published together by Meisha Merlin as BloodWalk) and in Blood Games. I have future cops Janna Brill and Mama Maxwell in three novels (The Doppelganger Gambit, Dragon's Teeth, and Spider Play)space-going cops in Deadly Silents, werewolf cops in my novel Wilding Nights, and a ghost cop in Killer Karma.

Beginning Blood Games, Wilding Nights, Killer Karma and my African fantasy novel The Leopard's Daughter, my books are now being re-published in e-book editions.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A detective story meets alien culture, July 31, 2005

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Colin P. Lindsey (Manchester, NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deadly Silents (A Del Rey Books) (Mass Market Paperback)

I read this story a very long time ago as a young teenager, probably twenty five years ago now, so I may not be the most qualified person to review this one; but as no one else has I will give it a shot. I very much enjoyed this story when I first read it, enough that I even re-read it a few years later, something I seldom ever do. This one is about a murder on a planet where humans and aliens co-exist, and not just any murder: it looks as if the murder may have been done by an alien for inexplicable reasons. Sort of an early precursor to the I, Robot film I guess. I wish I could give more details; I would whole-heartedly recommend this one to any teen-aged reader; it is a good story, and I remember it fondly still a quarter century later. It really stands out in my memory. For adults, I imagine it is still a good story and might be worth tracking down.