It is about a group of friends from the sinister village of Darnshaw who investigate the deaths of several people who had played a computer game called Archeron.

In Darnshaw, Ben meets up with some of his old friends, and learns that Jessica had committed suicide after playing a computer game called Archeron.

Reviewing A Cold Silence in Sci-Fi Bulletin, Marie O'Regan called the book "an involving sequel" to its predecessor.

[3] Stephen Theaker wrote in a review in Black Static that of Littlewood's first six books, A Cold Silence is a "definite misfire".

[4]) Theaker felt that while the effect the computer game, Archeron has on people in A Cold Silence "is fascinating [and] an excellent idea rich with the potential", it all takes place in the novel's backstory.