If you're someone who's been casually interested in the history of the conflict in Northern Ireland this book is a good starting point. Keefe does a wonderful job exploring the disappearance of Jean McConville in a way that gives readers a broader context of what was happening in Belfast during the Troubles. The book is filled with information that tells readers the stories and introduces some of the key figures of the period; but it does so in such a thoroughly engaging way it's never boring.

In the Notes section, Keefe describes Say Nothing as a work of "narrative nonfiction," and I think it's an excellent example of the genre. The reader may not get a definitive answer to the question of what really happened to Jean McConville in 1972, but reading through all of the research that went into the book and the way it's presented doesn't leave you feeling cheated out of information.