Thomas Perry has delivered another fine thriller with his latest book, Silence.  It centers around an old case of Jack Till, a retired LAPD detective who has set up shop as a PI.  Six years earlier, he had been approached by restaurateur Wendy Harper who was recovering from a brutal beating by an unknown assailant. She thinks the attacker is going to return and kill her. Harper asks Jack to help her disappear.  He teaches us her the trade secrets that law enforcement agencies use to track fugitives and how to avoid easy detection.

Police have charged Harper's ex-boyfriend and business partner, Eric Fuller with her murder.  Knowing that Fuller is innocent, Jack joins the defense team to clear his name. He undertakes the task of trying to find the woman he helped "disappear.

 Meanwhile, the husband and wife "hit team" of Paul and Sylvie Turner have been hired by the person who had initiated the attempt on Harper's life.  It's a race against time to see who will prevail in this suspense filled police procedural.

While not as enjoyable as some of his earlier work (especially his Jane Whitfield novels), Silence is still an excellent example of Thomas Perry's craftmanship.  I enjoyed the characters of Jack Till and Wendy Harper and even the Turners added to my reading pleasure.  I thought the "mystery man" and the motivation of the attempts on Wendy Harper's life was the weakest part of the book.  I would still say it's a good suspense filled read.  I'd place it at a 7-7.5 on my readability scale.