Someone Else's Skin: Introducing Detective Inspector Marnie

Someone Else's Skin: Introducing Detective Inspector Marnie Rome

Winner ofÂ 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 doesnâ€™t talk much about her personal life, preferring to focus on work. Not even her partner, DS Noah Jake, knows much about Marnieâ€™s past. Though as one of the few gay officers on the force and half Jamaican to boot, Noahâ€™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 sheâ€™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 shouldnâ€™t even have been there when it happened but they were interviewing another resident, Ayana Mirza. Theyâ€™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 theyâ€™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.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Country	USA
Author	Sarah Hilary
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780698151154
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Penguin Books
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
NumberOfPages	417
PublicationDate	2014-06-24
Publisher	Penguin Books
ReleaseDate	2014-06-24
Studio	Penguin Books

Someone Else's Skin: Introducing Detective Inspector Marnie Rome

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