Someone Else's Skin, (Paperback)

from Twink

Someone Else's Skin is Sarah Hilary's debut crime novel featuring Detective Inspector Marnie Rome. Hilary introduces us to Rome in a crime scene involving a stabbing from five years ago - one that was personal. Fast forward to present day. Rome and her partner are heading to a women's shelter to ...

from nicx27

DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake visit a women's refuge to talk to a woman who was brutally assaulted to try and get her to testify against her attackers. When they get there they discover the husband of one of the other residents laying on the floor having been stabbed. It is this attack that the...

from jayne_charles

This was an okay story that kept me reading, but some of the scenes - particularly those in which Marnie thrashed out her thoughts with Ed - seemed to go on a bit long. The central "twist" I guessed, principally because it's the stock twist in any domestic violence storyline so I was glad that th...

from maneekuhi

Hilary's "Someone Else's Skin" is a good debut but it does have some rookie flaws. Four stars seems a bit too generous, three would be too harsh. But it gets high marks for diverting from the usual patterns of a murder mystery. For one thing there is no murder! Unless you want to quibble about th...

from niaomiya

Holy smokes, this was a doozie of a book! What a fantastic debut by Sarah Hilary - definitely an author whose books I will be looking for from now on. Detective Inspector Marnie Rome works two cases with her partner Detective Sergeant Noah Jake. Both cases involved abused women in hiding from the...