title: The Shadow and Night (The Lamb Among the Stars, Book 1)
author:  Chris Walley 
description: I have travelled far in the realms of fantasy and sci-fi to Narnia, Empyrion, Middle Earth, Byntar and Albion, but never have I journeyed so far away as this book has taken me. Nor does anything even come close to the distance we encounter in 'The Shadow and Night'. As I opened the book and read the first pages, the thought came to me: perhaps this is the story I have been waiting all my life to read  or the tale I have always wanted to write. Well, not quite. But darned close to it. (Grace Bridges)
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  # Silence of the Lambs
  
  
  ## Book Jacket
  
  
  
  
  
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  **Tags:** Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Suspense, Mystery, Crime &
  mystery, Crime & Thriller
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  SUMMARY:
  
  
  The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris, is even better than the successful
  movie. Like his earlier Red Dragon, the book takes us inside the world of
  professional criminal investigation. All the elements of a well-executed
  thriller are working here--driving suspense, compelling characters, inside
  information, publicity-hungry bureaucrats thwarting the search, and the clock
  ticking relentlessly down toward the death of another young woman. What
  enriches this well-told tale is the opportunity to live inside the minds of
  both the crime fighters and the criminals as each struggles in a prison of
  pain and seeks, sometimes violently, relief. Clarice Starling, a precociously
  self-disciplined FBI trainee, is dispa