Tastes Like Fear (D.I. Marnie Rome 3)
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Authors: Sarah Hilary
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First published as an Ebook by Headline Publishing Group in 2016
All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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eISBN: 978 1 4722 2640 2
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Contents
About Sarah Hilary
Author photograph © Linda Nylind
Sarah Hilary has worked as a bookseller, and with the Royal Navy. Her 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. Her follow up NO OTHER DARKNESS was published to great acclaim (‘Unsettling and complete absorbing’
Sun
). TASTES LIKE FEAR is the third in the DI Marnie Rome series. Sarah lives in Bath.
Follow Sarah on Twitter at
@Sarah_Hilary
By Sarah Hilary and available from Headline
Someone Else’s Skin
No Other Darkness
Tastes Like Fear
About the Book
You’ll never be out of Harm’s way
The young girl who causes the fatal car crash disappears from the scene.
A runaway who doesn’t want to be found, she only wants to go home.
To the one man who understands her.
Gives her shelter.
Just as he gives shelter to the other lost girls who live in his house.
He’s the head of her new family.
He’s Harm.
DI Marnie Rome has faced many dangerous criminals but she has never come up against a man like Harm. She thinks that she knows families, their secrets and their fault lines. But as she begins investigating the girl’s disappearance nothing can prepare her for what she’s about to face.
Because when Harm’s family is threatened, everything tastes like fear …
Praise
Praise for
Tastes Like Fear
:
‘Brilliant. I put everything else aside when I have one of her books in the house’
Alex Marwood
‘A tense, terrifying tale of obsession and possession … a writer at the top of her game’
Alison Graham,
Radio Times
‘A truly chilling exploration of control, submission and the desire to step out of a normal life’
Eva Dolan
‘It is devious, dark, deliciously chilling. A formidable addition to an accomplished series that just keeps getting better and better’
Never Imitate Blog
Praise for
No Other Darkness
:
‘Riveting … Sarah Hilary delivers in this enthralling tale of a haunted detective, terrible crime, and the secrets all of us try to keep’
Lisa Gardner
‘At the centre is a queasily equivocal moral tone that forces the reader into a constant rejigging of their attitude to the characters. And did I mention the plotting? Hilary’s ace in the hole – as it is in the best crime thrillers’
Financial Times
‘Sarah Hilary cements her position as one of Britain’s most exciting and accomplished new writers. Complex, polished and utterly gripping, this is a book to make your heart pound’
Eva Dolan
‘The skill of the prose produces a deft and disturbing thriller’
Sunday Mirror
‘Truly mesmerising from its opening page to its thunderous denouement. A haunting, potent novel from a bleakly sublime new voice’
David Mark
‘Heart-breaking … I can’t recommend this highly enough’
SJI Holliday
‘DI Marnie Rome is a three-dimensional character of an emotional depth rarely encountered in the world of fictional cops’
The Times
‘Hilary’s attention to detail is scrupulous, and she is at her absolute best when it comes to marshalling a cast of characters’
Crime Review
‘Marnie Rome is back and Sarah Hilary has knocked it out of the park for us yet again’
Grab This Book
‘Sarah Hilary explores her characters with forensic insight and serious skill’
Live and Deadly
‘A genius at sending the reader in one direction, while pointing clues in another … Totally and utterly recommended’
Northern Crime
‘A masterclass in developing crime fiction series characters’
Crime Reader Blog
Praise for
Someone Else’s Skin
:
‘An exceptional new talent. Hilary writes with a beguiling immediacy that pulls you straight into her world on the first page and leaves you bereft when you finish’
Alex Marwood
‘I absolutely loved it’
Martyn Waites
‘An intelligent, assured and very promising debut’
Guardian
(
Best Spring Crime Novel
)
‘So brilliantly put together, unflinching without ever being gratuitous … it’s the best crime debut I’ve ever read’
Erin Kelly
‘A slick, stylish debut’
Sharon Bolton
‘Hilary maintains all her characters with depth and feeling’
Independent
‘It’s meaty, dark and terrifying … And Sarah’s writing is glorious’
Julia Crouch
‘There is a moment when it is almost impossible to keep reading, the scene Hilary has created is so upsetting, but almost impossible not to, the story is so hell-for-leather compelling’
Observer
‘It’s written with the verve and assurance of a future star’
Steven Dunne
‘It’s a simply superb read – dark and thrilling’
Sun
‘Detective Inspector Marnie Rome – secretive, brilliant and haunted by a whole host of demons … excellent novel’
Literary Review
‘I think it must be one of the debut novels of next year, if not THE debut novel …’
Caro Ramsay
‘Intelligently and fluently written with a clever plot and an energetic pace … I think Sarah’s onto a winning series and I really look forward to reading the next instalment’
Cath Staincliffe
‘A thinking woman’s whodunit’
Irish Examiner
‘The parallels with Lynda La Plante’s DCI Jane Tennison are plain to see but there is also a bleakness and sense of evil in the novel that sets Rome apart … richly deserves to succeed’
Daily Mail
‘It has such pace and force’
Helen Dunmore
‘A talented new writer who deserves every accolade for such a breath-taking crime novel’
crimesquad.com (Fresh Blood Pick of the Month)
For Francis,
for being one of the brave ones
Two years ago
Rain had blunted all of London’s spires, flattened her high-rises, buried her tower blocks in puddles of mud. Even the chimneys at Battersea Power Station were laid low, their long reflections boiling in the water. Not just days, weeks of rain. Pillars of it coming down, stirring up a stink, shifting the ground under your feet, not letting you forget that this city was built on burial pits.
