
She has a wonderful support system from her parents who were lovely and I wished we saw more of them! Dee’s secretive, smart, and determined, but I have to admit that I struggled with her at times. Better.”ĭee lives with her family in a different house in the same town but she never got past the “survivor’s guilt”. “Mostly though, she’s like that house we used to live in: she exists in a bunch of pictures that remind me that things used to be more relaxed.


It’s such a cool concept and I love the thought of a bunch of people listening in and working together to actually (successfully) solve mysteries! I really liked that this book recognised the work they do to help. Although I’m guilty of never having listened to true crime podcasts IRL, I imagine Radio Silent would stand out for what it sets out to do, which is to mobilise Laptop Detectives to help solve disappearances. But it also resulted in her starting the podcast: Radio Silent, my favourite aspect of this story. She feels responsible for her best friend’s kidnapping when they were just children, and has let that feeling consume her life. Our MC, Dee, was an interesting character and there’s a somewhat despondent aura that hangs over her. But how much of her own story is she willing to reveal in order to uncover the truth?īuy: Amazon (US) | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Indigo When another little girl in town goes missing, and the case is linked to Sibby’s disappearance, Dee has a chance to get answers with the help of her virtual detectives and the intriguing new girl at school. Nobody knows Dee’s the Seeker, and she plans to keep it that way. Sibby was never seen again.Īt night, Dee deals with her guilt by becoming someone else: the Seeker, the voice behind the popular true crime podcast Radio Silent, which features missing persons cases and works with online sleuths to solve them. And though she told the police everything she remembered, it wasn’t enough. Ten years ago she witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby.

In her small town, seventeen-year-old Delia “Dee” Skinner is known as the girl who wasn’t taken.
