Sarah Hilary

Called to a woman's refuge to take a routine witness statement, DI Marnie Rome instead walks in on an attempted murder. Trying to uncover the truth from layers of secrets, Marnie finds herself confronting her own demons. Because she, of all people, knows that it can be those closest to us we should fear the most.

Someone Else's Skin (D. I. Marnie Rome 1): Winner of the Crime Novel of the Year

From the Richard and Judy bestselling author Sarah Hilary. The phenomenal Marnie Rome returns in the outstanding follow up to the critically acclaimed SOMEONE ELSE S SKIN.

No Other Darkness (D. I. Marnie Rome 2)

Helen Smith

Elly Griffiths

Louise Millar

Amanda Jennings

Laura Wilson

Tammy Cohen

Emma Kavanagh

Sharon Bolton

Erin Kelly

Rachel Abbott

Kate Rhodes

Jane Casey

Louise Voss

Julia Crouch

Mel McGrath

Colette McBeth

Alison Joseph

Kate Medina

D. Meredith

Bodies surface and disappear, seduce and corrupt in these original stories by bestselling, award-winning female crime writers from the Killer Women crime-writing collective. Keep your eyes peeled, your ears cocked and your wits about you as twenty deliciously twisted tales take you to surprising places...'A killer collection of dark and devious tales' Mark Billingham'A lot of women have terrified me over the years, but none quite like these!' Linwood Barclay'This mix of playfully twisted, macabre tales showcases the Killer Women at the top of their game. I loved it!' SJ Watson

The Body

Killer Women: Crime Club Anthology #2

Blackthorn Ashes was meant to be their forever home. For the first six families moving into the exclusive new housing development, it was a chance to live a peaceful life on the cliffs overlooking the Cornish sea, safe in the knowledge that it had been created just for them.

But six weeks later, paradise is lost. Six people are dead. And Blackthorn Ashes is left abandoned and unfinished, its dark shadows hiding all manner of secrets.

One of its surviving residents, Agnes Gale, is determined to find out the truth about what happened. Even if that truth is deadlier than she could have ever believed possible . . .

Black Thorn

Sarah Hilary, Theakston’s Crime Novel of the year winner and author of Fragile, returns with Black Thorn, another compulsive psychological thriller, that questions how much you know about the people who live next to you . . . 'An astonishingly gifted writer' Marian Keyes Blackthorn Ashes was meant to be their forever home. For the first six families moving into the exclusive new housing development, it was a chance to live a peaceful life on the cliffs overlooking the Cornish sea, safe in the knowledge that it had been created just for them. But six weeks later, paradise is lost. Six people are dead. And Blackthorn Ashes is left abandoned and unfinished, its dark shadows hiding all manner of secrets. One of its surviving residents, Agnes Gale, is determined to find out the truth about what happened. Even if that truth is deadlier than she could have ever believed possible . . . Praise for Sarah Hilary: ‘Perfectly plotted’ Erin Kelly ‘Extraordinary’ Andrew Taylor

Ciszej niz smierc

“The DI Marnie Rome series [is] one to watch.” —Shelf Awareness The gripping follow-up to Sarah Hilary’s acclaimed debut Someone Else’s Skin, No Other Darkness finds mystery’s “impressive new cop-heroine” (The Times, London) on a case that hauntingly echoes her own family tragedy. Detective InspectorMarnie Rome and her partner Detective Sergeant Noah Jake are investigating the recent discovery of two dead boys in a bunker beneath a London garden. Terry and Beth, under whose garden the bodies were discovered, have two children of their own, and are also fostering a difficult boy named Clancy. Clancy reminds Marnie of her foster brother Stephen, who murdered her parents. Is Marnie’s past blinding her to the truth? Only one thing is certain: when Terry and Beth’s biological children vanish, Marnie can’t waste a moment finding them.

A Detective Inspector Marnie Rome Mystery

No Other Darkness

Winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and Nominated for a Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel No two victims are alike. DI Marnie Rome knows this better than most. Five years ago, her family home was the scene of a shocking and bloody crime that left her parents dead and her foster brother in prison. Marnie doesn’t talk much about her personal life, preferring to focus on work. Not even her partner, DS Noah Jake, knows much about Marnie’s past. Though as one of the few gay officers on the force and half Jamaican to boot, Noah’s not one to overshare about his private life either. Now Marnie and Noah are tackling a case of domestic violence, and a different brand of victim. Hope Proctor stabbed her husband in desperate self-defense. A crowd of witnesses in the domestic violence shelter where she’s staying saw it happen, but none of them are telling quite the same story, and the simple question remains: how did Leo Proctor get in to the secure shelter? Marnie and Noah shouldn’t even have been there when it happened but they were interviewing another resident, Ayana Mirza. They’re trying to get Ayana to testify against her brothers for pouring bleach on her face for bringing dishonor the family, and blinding her in one eye. But Ayana knows that her brothers are looking for her, and she has no doubt that they’ll kill her this time. As the violence spirals, engulfing the residents of the women's shelter, Marnie finds herself drawn into familiar territory: A place where the past casts long shadows and she must tread carefully to survive.

Introducing Detective Inspector Marnie Rome

Someone Else's Skin

Ein grauenvoller Fund: Im Garten seines Hauses in einer Londoner Neubausiedlung entdeckt Familienvater Terry Doyle einen alten Bunker – und darin, dreieinhalb Meter tief in der Dunkelheit, zwei Kinderleichen. Für das Team um Detective Marnie Rome türmen sich die Fragen auf: Wer waren die Kinder? Warum wurden sie nie als vermisst gemeldet? Welche Rolle spielt Clancy, der verhaltensauffällige Ziehsohn von Terry? Die Begegnung mit Clancy ist für Marnie wie eine Falltür in die Vergangenheit – er erinnert sie an ihren Adoptivbruder Stephen, den Mörder ihrer Eltern. Und als Clancy plötzlich mit Terrys leiblichen Kindern verschwunden ist, ahnt Marnie: Jetzt zählt jede Sekunde.

Thriller

Seelenkinder

Dans un lotissement de la banlieue de Londres, on retrouve les corps de deux jeunes garçons, enfermés dans un bunker, sous le jardin d’une des maisons. Leur identité reste un mystère mais leur mort remonte à cinq ans. Une enquête terriblement difficile pour Marnie Rome et son fidèle sergent Noah Jake. D’autant que deux nouveaux enfants disparaissent... Traduit de l’anglais par Carole Delporte

De l'autre côté de la nuit

Have you discovered DI Marnie Rome yet? Winner of the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year, and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. In a debut deemed 'stunning' by Mark Billingham, DI Marnie Rome is called to a women's refuge to take a routine witness statement, where she instead walks in on an attempted murder. Trying to uncover the truth from layers of secrets, Marnie finds herself confronting her own demons. Because she, of all people, knows that it can be those closest to us we should fear the most . . . Followed by the visceral NO OTHER DARKNESS, in which the bodies of two young boys are discovered, trapped in an underground bunker, huddled against one another for warmth. Who put them there? Why has it taken five years to find them? Who are they? So begins one of the most difficult and traumatic cases of DI Marnie Rome's career. Her only focus is the boys. She has to find out just who they are and what happened to them. For Marnie, there is no other darkness than this . . . Once you've discovered Marnie Rome, you won't want to let her go.

Discover Marnie Rome: SOMEONE ELSE'S SKIN and NO OTHER DARKNESS

Two young boys. Trapped underground in a bunker. Unable to understand why they are there. Desperate for someone to find them. Slowly realising that no-one will ... Five years later, the boys' bodies are found and the most difficult case of DI Marnie Rome's career begins. Her only focus is the boys. She has to find out who they are and what happened to them. For Marnie, there is no other darkness than this ...

Everything she touches breaks . . . Nell Ballard is a runaway. A former foster child with a dark secret she is desperate to keep, all Nell wants is to find a place she can belong. So when a job comes up at Starling Villas, home to the enigmatic Robin Wilder, she seizes the opportunity with both hands. But her new lodgings may not be the safe haven that she was hoping for. Her employer lives by a set of rigid rules and she soon sees that he is hiding secrets of his own. But is Nell's arrival at the Villas really the coincidence it seems? After all, she knows more than most how fragile people can be - and how easy they can be to break . . . Fragile is a dark, contemporary psychological thriller with a modern Gothic twist from an award-winning and critically acclaimed writer who has been compared to Ruth Rendell, P. D. James and Val McDermid. Rebecca meets The Handmaid's Tale in Sarah Hilary's standalone breakout novel. "An astonishingly gifted writer, with an almost scalpel-like ability to dissect human motivation. Absolutely stunning..." Marian Keyes

Fragile

A mesmerising, gripping novel from the winner of the 2015 Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year for SOMEONE ELSE'S SKIN. . Perfect for readers of Clare Mackintosh and Alex Marwood. 'Written with the verve and assurance of a future star' Helen Dunmore Two young boys.Trapped underground in a bunker. Five years later, the boys' bodies are found and the most difficult case of DI Marnie Rome's career begins. She has to find out who they are and what happened to them. For no-one has reported them missing - and it seems she is the only person to care.

No Other Darkness (D.I. Marnie Rome 2)

Detective Marnie Rome ermittelt – alle drei Thriller der Reihe in einem Band! „Herzenskalt“: Kein Opfer gleicht dem anderen. Keiner weiß das besser als Marnie Rome von der Kriminalpolizei London. Denn sie selbst – die brillante Ermittlerin, klug, schnell, zuverlässig – ist ein Opfer: Vor fünf Jahren wurden ihre Eltern brutal ermordet. Marnie hat sich zurück ins Leben gekämpft, nur wenige wissen um die dunklen Flecken in ihrer Vergangenheit. Auch ihr junger Kollege Noah nicht, mit dem sie in einem Frauenhaus eine Zeugin vernehmen will. Sie hat sich vor ihrem prügelnden Mann dorthin geflüchtet. Routine, ein klarer Fall – doch im Laufe der Ermittlungen beschleichen Marnie Zweifel: Jeder hat etwas zu verbergen, Täter wie Opfer. Jeder hat eine Vergangenheit, die er nur noch vergessen möchte – wie Marnie selbst... „Seelenkinder“: Ein grauenvoller Fund: Im Garten seines Hauses in einer Londoner Neubausiedlung entdeckt Familienvater Terry Doyle einen alten Bunker – und darin, dreieinhalb Meter tief in der Dunkelheit, zwei Kinderleichen. Für das Team um Detective Marnie Rome türmen sich die Fragen auf: Wer waren die Kinder? Warum wurden sie nie als vermisst gemeldet? Welche Rolle spielt Clancy, der verhaltensauffällige Ziehsohn von Terry? Die Begegnung mit Clancy ist für Marnie wie eine Falltür in die Vergangenheit – er erinnert sie an ihren Adoptivbruder Stephen, einen Mörder. Und als Clancy plötzlich mit Terrys leiblichen Kindern verschwunden ist, ahnt Marnie: Jetzt zählt jede Sekunde. „Puppenheim“: Eine Reihe mysteriöser Vermisstenfälle hält London in Atem. Junge Mädchen, die von zu Hause ausgebrochen sind, verschwinden von einem Tag auf den anderen spurlos. Das Gerücht geht um, ein geheimnisvoller Mann habe seine Finger im Spiel. Schon bald wird die erste Leiche gefunden, hindrapiert wie eine Puppe. Marnie Rome von der Kriminalpolizei London wird zum Tatort gerufen. Marnie, die brillante Ermittlern, die aus eigener Erfahrung weiß, was es heißt, Opfer zu sein. Und die sofort spürt, dass man sich auf die Fürsorge dieses Mannes nicht verlassen kann ...

3 Romane in einem Band

Die Marnie-Rome-Reihe Band 1-3: Herzenskalt / Seelenkinder / Puppenheim (3in1-Bundle)

Es gibt Geheimnisse, die schützen. es gibt Geheimnisse, die töten. Kein Opfer gleicht dem anderen. Keiner weiß das besser als Marnie Rome von der Kriminalpolizei London. Denn sie selbst – die brillante Ermittlerin, klug, schnell, zuverlässig – ist ein Opfer: Vor fünf Jahren wurden ihre Eltern brutal ermordet. Marnie hat sich zurück ins Leben gekämpft, nur wenige wissen um die dunklen Flecken in ihrer Vergangenheit. Auch ihr junger Kollege Noah nicht, mit dem sie in einem Frauenhaus eine Zeugin vernehmen will. Sie hat sich vor ihrem prügelnden Mann dorthin geflüchtet. Routine, ein klarer Fall – doch im Laufe der Ermittlungen beschleichen Marnie Zweifel: Jeder hat etwas zu verbergen, Täter wie Opfer. Jeder hat eine Vergangenheit, die er nur noch vergessen möchte – wie Marnie selbst ...

Herzenskalt

'Fragile is absolutely STUNNING' - Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups 'Sarah Hilary has always known how to chill her readers – Fragile dials the chill factor up to 11' - Val McDermid, author of The Wire in the Blood Fragile is a modern Gothic psychological thriller with a contemporary twist on the classic novel Rebecca from award-winning and critically acclaimed writer Sarah Hilary. Everything she touches breaks . . . Nell Ballard is a runaway. A former foster child with a dark secret she is desperately trying to keep, all Nell wants is to find a place she can belong. So when a job comes up at Starling Villas, home to the enigmatic Robin Wilder, she seizes the opportunity with both hands. But her new lodgings may not be the safe haven that she was hoping for. Her employer lives by a set of rigid rules and she soon sees he is hiding secrets of his own. But is Nell's arrival at the Villas really the coincidence it seems? After all, she knows more than most how fragile people can be – and how easily they can be to break . . . Further praise for Fragile: 'Fragile is absolutely STUNNING, the dreamy atmosphere couples with Nell's carnal love for Joe put me in mind of Barbara Vine . . . [Sarah Hilary is] an astonishingly gifted writer, with an almost scalpel-like ability to dissect human motivation and convey it deliciously devoid of sentimentality. I was GRIPPED by Fragile, it took me into a whole other world and I was sorry to leave it' - Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups 'Perfectly plotted, beautifully written modern Gothic. Timeless, tense and tender, Fragile will worm it's way deep into your heart, just as the characters insinuate themselves into each other's lives. I absolutely loved it' - Erin Kelly, author of He Said/She Said 'Beautifully crafted, smart and unsettling – a dark river of a book, with a chilling undertow' - Mick Herron, author of Slow Horses 'A dark, mesmeric fever-dream of a book' - Ruth Ware, author of The Woman in Cabin 10 'Beautifully written modern gothic. I took my time with this, savouring it – the tone of Sarah Hilary's writing is unique to her: exploring society and human nature in a sensitive, engrossing way. Ingenious, original and brilliant' - Will Dean, author of Red Snow 'Extraordinary . . . an immersive psychological thriller that plunges us into an underworld of emotional and physical exploitation. There are shades of Highsmith . . . Brilliant stuff' - Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London 'Fragile is a fever dream. A nightmarish slant on the world delivered expertly and with heart. Tension like cold steel. Characters you won't forget. Sarah Hilary is a modern-day Highsmith.' - Steve Cavanagh, author of The Thirteen 'A beguiling thriller of considerable ambition and ingenuity, Fragile marks Sarah Hilary as a twenty-first century du Maurier, a writer who plunges the depths of human nature, finding the darkest, most deviant corners, but also the fleeting hopes and brittle aspirations. This is a truly outstanding work of modern gothic.' - Eva Dolan, author of Between Two Evils 'Highly original, beautifully written' - Sharon Bolton, author of Now You See Me 'Sarah Hilary has created a beautifully written modern Gothic masterpiece, so full of intrigue and mysteries layered upon mysteries that the unravelling may well shred your nerves, in the best way possible' - Liz Nugent, author of Skin Deep 'The writing is so elegant, so restrained, that it brings to mind Patricia Highsmith. Fragile is a very fine, and very creepy psychological thriller.' - Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane 'A gorgeously written, tense and atmospheric novel. Sarah Hilary peels back the layers of mystery so skillfully that it was impossible to look away for a moment.' - Gytha Lodge, author of She Lies in Wait

Secrets and Betrayal in the Stunning Break-out Psychological Thriller from the Theakstons' Crime Novel of the Year Winner

Gripping, tense, twisty and full of emotional insight, COME AND FIND ME is Sarah Hilary's Marnie Rome 5 book, for fans of Mick Herron or Clare Mackintosh. 'Hilary belts out a corker of a story, all wrapped up in her vivid, effortless prose. If you're not reading this series of London-set police procedurals then you need to start right away' Observer On the surface, Lara Chorley and Ruth Hull have nothing in common, other than their infatuation with Michael Vokey. Each is writing to a sadistic inmate, sharing her secrets, whispering her worst fears, craving his attention. DI Marnie Rome understands obsession. She's finding it hard to give up her own addiction to a dangerous man: her foster brother, Stephen Keele. She wasn't able to save her parents from Stephen. She lives with that guilt every day. As the hunt for Vokey gathers pace, Marnie fears one of the women may have found him - and is about to pay the ultimate price.

Come and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5)

A dark, compelling Marnie Rome novel, rich with psychological insight, from the winner of the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year. For readers of Clare Mackintosh and Alex Marwood. 'Intelligently and fluently written with a clever plot and an energetic pace, dealing with harrowing topics and shot through with humanity' Cath Staincliffe The fragile young girl who causes the fatal car crash disappears from the scene. A runaway who doesn't want to be found, she only wants to return to the man who understands her and offers her warmth, comfort, a home. He gives her shelter. Just as he gives shelter to the other lost girls who live in his house. D.I. Marnie Rome thinks that she knows families, their secrets and their fault lines. But as she begins investigating the girl's disappearance nothing can prepare her for what she's about to face.

Tastes Like Fear (D.I. Marnie Rome 3)

Compulsive, gripping and dark, NEVER BE BROKEN is the stunning new novel in the Marnie Rome series, for fans of Peter James, Mark Billingham, and Val McDermid 'Sarah Hilary writes beautifully and unflinchingly' Peter James Noah Jake has seen dead bodies before but when a young woman falls to her death from a London tower block, landing in the bonnet of his car, everything changes for him. Has he witnessed an accident, suicide, or something worse? Whichever, it affects him deeply. London's young people are being trafficked into gangs, exploited, and killed. Thirteen-year-old Raffa Jordan was shot in the street, an innocent bystander in a gang war, or so it seems. It looks as if Samantha Haile is just the latest victim in the wave of violence sweeping the city. Only Noah feels the need to treat her differently, to chase down the truth of what happened that day. Marnie Rome wants to help, but even she cannot grasp why Noah is risking so much for the sake of this stranger he never knew. As Marnie finally finds peace with her own past, she is faced with the far harder task of bringing Noah back from the brink of self-destruction.

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