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Penguin
July 2014
On Sale: June 24, 2014
Featuring: Hope Proctor; Noah Jake; Marnie Rome
416 pages
ISBN: 0143126180
EAN: 9780143126188
Kindle: B00GAH3QLC
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The debut of an exciting new series for fans of Sophie Hannah, Kate Atkinson, and Tana French 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 doesnโt talk much about her personal life, preferring to focus on work. Not even her partner, DS Noah Jake, knows much about Marnieโs past. Though as one of the few gay officers on the force and half Jamaican to boot, Noahโs 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 sheโs 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 shouldnโt even have been there when it happened but they were interviewing another resident, Ayana Mirza. Theyโre 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 theyโll 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.
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