Quieter Than Killing (D.I. Marnie Rome 4)

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.

“Well written, well researched and full of issues that set you thinking, Quieter Than Killing is as impressive as it is gripping-- Book Oxygen”

It's dark, it's brilliant, and it tightens like a noose. Sarah Hilary is downright dangerous.

A compelling read, emotionally intense and intelligent. I love her fierce, flawed characters

PRAISE FOR SARAH HILARY: Brilliant. I put everything else aside when I have one of her books in the house

A tense, terrifying tale of obsession and possession . . . a writer at the top of her game - Radio Times

Contemporary, yet elegant and with a heart, it underlines the author's place as one of Britain's best new crime writers - Daily Mail

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.

'Serious stuff, brilliantly presented' The Times Violence can be a soft knock on the door in daylight, a knock that brings the worst possible news. Waiting for that knock will change your life forever. DI Marnie Rome knows what pain is. She lost her family to violence. So when a series of vicious vigilante attacks grips the icy streets of London, she recognises its base emotions: rage, and the need for silent, personal revenge. Then, just as her own family home is ransacked, a young boy disappears from the streets and Marnie is desperate to find him. What she doesn'tknow is that every act is leading her, step by step, back to those terrible events of her past. 'The most poignant entry in her series so far' Sunday Express 'Sarah Hilary writes beautifully and unflinchingly' Peter James 'It's dark, it's brilliant, and it tightens like a noose' Mick Herron

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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