in England. His short stories were awarded an Artists Fellowship from the Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation, and his articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor.
The Silenced Women is his debut novel. The second novel in the VCI series, The Day He Left, brings back the five detectives to investigate a missing person case and was published in February 2022. Weisel is currently at work on the third novel in the VCI series. He lives with his wife in Santa Rosa, California, and shares a birthday with his favorite author, Raymond Chandler.
At CrimeReads Weisel tagged six "school mysteries set ... in today’s ordinary public schools, specifically middle and high schools," including:
A Thousand Cuts by Simon LelicRead about another entry on the list.
Another debut, Simon Lelic’s novel tells the story of a police investigation of a school shooting in a contemporary London school. In this case, the shooter is one of the school’s teachers. While the facts of the shooting are clear, a femalepolice detective investigating the case finds troubling evidence in the circumstances behind the crime. This is a story of bullying in the school and mirrored in the police force. At its root, it is a tragedy with a cast of innocent victims and precious little leavening. What comes though these pages is the meanness of many characters and the terrible consequences of that meanness. But beyond that, it is a wonderful portrait of a beleaguered female cop struggling against the odds. The novel is cleverly told in a series of recorded interrogations with students, teachers, and parents. Like [Kanae Minato's] Confessions and [Kwon Yeo-sun's] Lemon, each perspective reveals new details and background on the seeds of the crime, so that readers are in the position of the detective trying to understand the facts as the story unfolds.
The Page 69 Test: A Thousand Cuts.
--Marshal Zeringue
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