The Long Silence

Listed in the Film category on Art In Fiction, The Long Silence  (2018) is Gerard O’Donovan’s first installment in his Tom Collins Mystery  series. February, 1922: Hollywood is young but already mired in scandal. When a leading movie director is murdered, Irish-American investigator Tom Collins is called in by studio boss Mack Sennett, whose troubled star, Mabel Normand, is rumoured to be involved.   But Normand has gone missing. And, as Collins discovers, there’s a growing list of suspects. His quest leads him through the brutal heart of Prohibition-era Los Angeles, from speakeasies and dope dens to the studios and salons of Hollywood’s fabulously wealthy movie elite, and to a secret so explosive it must be kept silent at any cost. "Readers will hope this marks the start of a long-running series" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review Gerard O’Donovan is an Irish journalist and thriller writer, well known as a TV critic for The Daily Telegraph . Buy Now from Amazon Buy Now from Bookshop Find other novels by Gerard O'Donovan on Art In Fiction.