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Also by Sarah Hilary:

Someone Else's Skin, July 2014
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Someone Else's Skin
Sarah Hilary

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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Mystery Woman Sleuth | Mystery Police Procedural

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 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.

Comments

2 comments posted.

Re: Someone Else's Skin

This sounds like a very interesting book, if you took cues
from Alfred Hitchcock to write your book!! I'm sure it's
going to be a real page-turner, and is going to be a real
page-turner!! I can't wait to read it!!
(Peggy Roberson 10:42am June 30, 2014)

I loved the Alfred Hitchcock movies.
"The director should have given you a break, a scene where
there was a chance to gather your breath. A moment of light
will make the dark more effective." I fully agree.
Great tips.
(Leona Olson 11:43am June 30, 2014)