Percival Constantine: Dead Silent, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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An entire town stayed silent-she won't

Sixteen-year-old Shoma Mizuno stepped in front of a train and never looked back. The official verdict: suicide. Case closed. His uncle believes there's more to that story.

Private investigator Kyoko Nakamura built her reputation exposing the truths powerful people want buried. Now Koichi Mizuno is asking her to do it again. Dig into his nephew's death and find out if his suspicions were true-Shoma was bullied, the school knew, and everyone from the principal down chose to look the other way.

The trail leads Kyoko back to Kobashigawa High School-her own alma mater-where the halls are the same but the stakes are far higher than they were when she walked them as a student. Principal Haruki Nishizawa runs the school like a fiefdom, more concerned with his golf game with the mayor than a dead student. And the families who might talk are being quietly pressured into silence.

As Kyoko digs deeper, she uncovers a culture of cruelty that didn't start with Shoma and won't end with him either-one built on cover-ups, intimidation, and a town's unwillingness to ask hard questions. With her own family caught in the crossfire and old wounds from her past reopening at every turn, Kyoko has to decide how far she's willing to go to get justice for a boy nobody protected while he was alive.

Dead Silent is the gripping third installment in the Nakamura Detective Agency series, blending hardboiled investigation with the kind of institutional rot that hides in plain sight. Fans of Percival Constantine's Fallen Idol and Murder Walk will find Kyoko Nakamura at her most personally invested yet - and her most dangerous.