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Reviewed by Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite
Rebecca Bryn’s The Silence of the Stones opens with Alana, a city girl who has given up her job to concentrate on painting. Told she has inherited a cottage in West Wales, she packs her worldly goods in her ancient Mini and sets out; this is her chance to start a new life away from her traumatic past and manipulative mother. New neighbours close ranks against her in a disturbing conspiracy of silence, enigmatic signs appear on her front door, and the villagers begin to suffer a series of mysterious accidents. Was Aunt Sian, the sister her mother never spoke of, connected with a crime committed thirty-five years ago? Is Alana being blamed and in danger? Trapped by her aunt’s debts, she has no choice but to attempt to uncover the truth before it’s too late.
The Silence of the Stones, Rebecca Bryn’s debut novel, is an incredibly complicated mystery. I failed to guess the answer until the author chose to reveal it and yet, checking back, every single clue required to do so is there. Ms Bryn digs deep into Welsh legend and ancient rites and for that, and the vivid picture of the off-the-tourist-track Pembrokeshire countryside, this novel would be worth reading, but it is so much more. I was fascinated by the cast of apparently unconnected characters and took dozens of guesses at “where Maddie went on Fridays” and why an old lady ventured onto the clifftop to greet the icy dawn, all of them wrong. Read it and I guarantee that you won’t be disappointed; baffled, left breathless by sheer evil, horror struck, moved to tears, and misled, yes.
