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Sarah Hilary, winner of the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year, returns with a new DI Marnie Rome novel, QUIETER THAN KILLING. A vigilante is at loose on the streets. A child is in danger. Sometimes staying silent is the only way to survive...

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Sarah Hilary, winner of the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year, returns with a new DI Marnie Rome novel, QUIETER THAN KILLING. For fans of Val McDermid, Alex Marwood and Claire Mackintosh

´Hilary is my drop-everything writer; always original, always bang-on psychologically, always gripping. I am a huge fan´ Alex Marwood

´Tremendous´ Ian Rankin

It´s winter, the nights are dark and freezing, and a series of seemingly random assaults is pulling DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake out onto streets of London. When Marnie´s family home is ransacked, there are signs that the burglary can have only been committed by someone who knows her. Then a child goes missing, yet no-one has reported it. Suddenly, events seem connected, and it´s personal.

Someone out there is playing games. It is time for both Marnie and Noah to face the truth about the creeping, chilling reaches of a troubled upbringing. Keeping quiet can be a means of survival, but the effects can be as terrible as killing.

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Hilary belts out a corker of a story, all wrapped up in her vivid, effortless prose. If you´re not reading this series of London-set police procedurals then you need to start right away Observer, Thriller of the Month

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Hilary, Sarah
Sarah Hilary´s debut novel SOMEONE ELSE´S SKIN won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2015. It was the Observer´s Book of the Month (´superbly disturbing´), a Richard & Judy Book Club bestseller, and has been published worldwide. NO OTHER DARKNESS and TASTES LIKE FEAR continue the DI Marnie Rome series with QUIETER THAN KILLING to follow in early 2017. Sarah lives in Bath.

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