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-not even her partner, DS Noah Jake, knows much about Marnie's past. 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. Marnie and Noah shouldn't even have been there when it happened, but they were trying to get another resident to testify against her brothers for pouring bleach on her face and blinding her in one eye. As the violence spirals, engulfing the residents of the women's shelter, Marnie...
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Oj, vilken debut! En mörk, mycket sammansatt deckare i Londonmiljö. Kriminalinspektör Marnie Rome har en oerhört svår bakgrund som ger henne unik inblick i en gärningsmans och ett offers psyke. Det är så välskrivet och det blir så spännande och svårt att förutse. Rekommenderas!
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Det här är Sarah Hilarys debutroman, och det var en mycket bra debut tycker jag.
Jag gillade att boken var så förutsättningslös, och oförutsägbar.
Intressanta ämnen var det också i boken, med kvinnomisshandel och familjetragedier i fokus.
Så jag kan absolut rekommendera boken, och jag skulle gärna läsa en bok till om London-polisen Marnie Rome och hennes kollegor.