Name: Someone Else's Skin
ISBN: 9780143126188

Sarah Hilary

Investigating what appears to be a self-defense stabbing at a domestic violence shelter, Detective Inspector Marnie Rome and her partner, Detective Sergeant Noah Jake, hear conflicting stories from witnesses while trying to discover how the victim got into the secure building. Original. A first novel.

Someone Else's Skin

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

azliana aziz

Denaiir

3.5 stars

This one took me a little bit of time to get hooked, but it was pretty good overall. For one thing, the plot was not my cup of tea at first, I don't really care about domestic violence stories, but then there was a pretty good twist. Secondly, I didn’t connect with the character of Marnie straight away, but she grew on me and the story about her family is fascinating. 

In the end, it was well worth sticking with it and I'm especially interested to see how the mystery about Marnie's past plays a role in the next volumes. I don't have much to say about her partner Noah Jake, couldn't tell you much about him except that he was quite a liable character and that I hope he becomes more three-dimensional in the next ones.

Someone Else's Skin

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