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    Someone Else's Skin: Introducing Detective Inspector Marnie Rome
    Someone Else's Skin: Introducing Detective Inspector Marnie Rome
    Someone Else's Skin: Introducing Detective Inspector Marnie Rome
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    Someone Else's Skin: Introducing Detective Inspector Marnie Rome

    Written by Sarah Hilary

    Narrated by Justine Eyre

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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 finds herself drawn into familiar territory: a place where the past casts long shadows and where she must tread carefully to survive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 24, 2014
    ISBN9781494572853
    Someone Else's Skin: Introducing Detective Inspector Marnie Rome

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    • 3/5
      I started reading this book and realised I'd read it before. However, I continued and enjoyed it all over again. The story i about domestic abuse. It points out tht the abuser can be a partner or a blood relative. Realistic characters and of course a realistic story line.
    • 4/5
      This was an okay story that kept me reading, but some of the scenes - particularly those in which Marnie thrashed out her thoughts with Ed - seemed to go on a bit long. The central "twist" I guessed, principally because it's the stock twist in any domestic violence storyline so I was glad that the author chose to reveal it midway through. Competently written, but I'm not sure I'd actively seek out the others in the series.
    • 4/5
      Detective Inspector Marnie Rome has tried to pick up her life again after the vicious murder of her parents several years ago. She and her partner, DS Noah Jake, are asked to convince a woman at a battered woman's shelter to give evidence against her brother. He is the main suspect in one of their cases. They arrive at the scene to find the husband of one of the women lying on the floor, the apparent victim of a stabbing. As Marnie and Noah investigate the crime further, events begin to spiral and the violence escalates. Everyone, including Marnie, is keeping secrets that will need to get out in the open if they expect to solve this case.

      This book deals with serious topics, primarily abuse, which puts it on the darker side of the mystery genre. I thought the author made the plot and characters very believable, especially in dealing with sensitive issues like gender, culture, race and sexual violence. There are plenty of twists and turns that make this a very compelling read. Marnie Rome is a complicated character with a tragic back story. Her own history is referred to throughout the book and is made to feel an integral part of the novel. She has her own secrets, as does her partner, Noah Jake. While they are both damaged in their own way, it works well in this book and I'm happy to see there is already a second book in the series called No Other Darkness. I've already picked it up.
    • 1/5
      A disappointing read. I had high hopes for this debut novel given the glowing reviews. The main character needed to be in deep therapy, not leading an investigation. The story itself relies on too much violence to try to hook the reader. It leaves the reader feeling sad about the direction that society is taking. I found this book to be a waste of time and will not read the next book by this author.
    • 4/5
      Someone Else’s Skin is the first book in a series featuring DI Marnie Rome, a London police detective. I had slightly mixed feelings about this one. The novel is well written, the characters are intriguing, the mood of menace is brilliantly maintained and the twists and turns are genuinely surprising, and at times shocking. Marnie has her demons, as 5 years ago her own parents were brutally murdered by a grown up foster child, and she is still dealing with that – not surprisingly work sometimes triggers some unwelcome memories and never more than in this case – attempted murder in a women’s refuge. But why was the victim, a resident’s husband, there? This is certainly an intriguing premise.My main gripe from the beginning was its portrayal of the women’s refuge. I can well believe it is short of funds, as is everywhere in this time of cuts, this service for women with with very serious needs is in crisis itself. But I am troubled by the portrayal of a place run so badly and unprofessionally, from the beginning of the story when the police turn up and there is total confusion about who is who, who is in charge and so on.Despite my concerns, I look forward to reading the next in the series as I can see real promise in this debut.I received a free copy of this book for review through the Amazon Vine programme.
    • 5/5
      I've had this book for quite a while now but somehow never managed to get round to reading it. I didn't realize what I was missing out on. It's a brilliantly crafted British police procedural with authentic characters and a gripping storyline about domestic abuse. I can totally see why it was awarded some crime novel of the year award. Not going to say anything about the storyline because it would be too easy to give too much away. This is the first in the series featuring DI Marnie Rome and book 2 "No Other Darkness" has gone straight onto my wishlist!
    • 4/5
      Some secrets keep you safe, others will destroy you...

      Detective Inspector Marnie Rome. Dependable; fierce; brilliant at her job; a rising star in the ranks. Everyone knows how Marnie fought to come back from the murder of her parents, but very few know what is going on below the surface. Because Marnie has secrets she won't share with anyone.

      But then so does everyone. Certainly those in the women's shelter Marnie and Detective Sergeant Noah Jake visit on that fateful day. The day when they arrive to interview a resident, only to find one of the women's husbands, who shouldn't have been there, lying stabbed on the floor.

      As Marnie and Noah investigate the crime further, events begin to spiral and the violence escalates. Everyone is keeping secrets, some for survival and some, they suspect, to disguise who they really are under their skin.

      Now, if Marnie is going to find the truth she will have to face her own demons head on. Because the time has come for secrets to be revealed...

      Cracking début novel with genuinely likeable characters; tightly plotted, it never lets up... Highly recommended
    • 5/5
      Holy smokes, this was a doozie of a book! What a fantastic debut by Sarah Hilary - definitely an author whose books I will be looking for from now on.Detective Inspector Marnie Rome works two cases with her partner Detective Sergeant Noah Jake. Both cases involved abused women in hiding from their abusers. As they dig deeper into the overlapping cases, things aren't as they seem. Marnie and Noah start to question themselves and all eyewitnesses - Are they really seeing what's been happening, or are they seeing what they've been conditioned to see?This fascinating mystery novel is gripping from start to finish, very well written, and seamlessly interwoven, with excellent character and plot development. Brava, Ms. Hilary! I look forward to your next D.I. Marnie Rose novel!
    • 4/5
      Hilary's "Someone Else's Skin" is a good debut but it does have some rookie flaws. Four stars seems a bit too generous, three would be too harsh. But it gets high marks for diverting from the usual patterns of a murder mystery. For one thing there is no murder! Unless you want to quibble about the death of heroine Marnie Rome's parents five years earlier, and then too, there is a suspicious suicide. But aside from all that, there is no dead body, no autopsy, forensics, SOCO investigation, etc. etc. Rather, much of the story ostensibly deals with women as victims of abuse. There are some long scenes at a women's refuge, a "safe" house of sorts, where the husband of one of the residents has just been stabbed. How did he know where the house was? How did he get in? Why did he bring a knife? How did he get stabbed? Why do the resident witnesses provide conflicting descriptions of events? Interesting questions to pursue, but there's more, a lot more. The reader also learns the stories of other residents, particularly a Middle Eastern woman blinded in one eye by her brothers as punishment for supposedly looking at a boy. Slowly, as more and more of the case details emerge and personal histories are revealed, the story takes an unexpected turn or two and it becomes clear that women are not always just the victims but occasionally the instigators of violence on others. So, high marks for a very interesting story line.Now for the flaws....Although the author has created some unusual characters, including a gay sidekick, they all seemed rather flat to me, too cardboard. I didn't feel I knew them after finishing the book. I wasn't real crazy about the prose either; I suppose it was adequate but nothing special. The characters as cops didn't seem real enough, hopefully the author will research police departments, environment, organization, procedures and lingo a bit more for book two. It seemed like she put all her energy into researching other areas for this book. The word "skin" must have been used more than 100 times. It felt like a tip from a writing class, a trick to add a little depth, some hidden meanings.....yuk. And the name, Marnie Rome, sounds like something from a cheap made for TV movie, but I guess we're stuck with that. Marnie visits her parents' jailed killer every so often, and I suspect that will be back in book two. Those kind of links from book to book in a series can become boring and too repetitious after a while; we'll just have to wait and see. For me it's reminiscent of a popular series where our hero is haunted by a boyhood incident, the unsolved death of a younger brother; it comes back in every book in the series, every book - I finally gave up. Finally, the ending was too pat, too convenient. I would have done it 180 degrees differently and I would have had a bit more respect for the author if she finished on a more jarring note. Will I read the followup, "No Other Darkness" due in 2015? I'm not sure yet, but I'll certainly notice the banner, " #2 in the MARNIE ROME series" !
    • 4/5
      DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake visit a women's refuge to talk to a woman who was brutally assaulted to try and get her to testify against her attackers. When they get there they discover the husband of one of the other residents laying on the floor having been stabbed. It is this attack that then takes centre stage in the story.This book started like any other police procedural and whilst I was liking it, it wasn't blowing me away. However, then there was a twist in the tale, which I had guessed at but which made it all much more interesting. I particularly liked Rome and thought she was a promising character to take forward into a series. She's flawed and has demons in her past.I enjoyed reading this crime thriller. It didn't make my heart race but it's well-written and had a good plot.
    • 3/5
      A police procedural in which DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake are sent to a women's shelter to try to persuade a woman there (Ayana) to testify against her abusive brothers. On arrival they find that one of the women (Hope) has just (literally just that minute) stabbed her husband, and they take on this case too. Subsequently their workload incorporates the disappearance of Hope together with a friend from the shelter and the kidnapping of Ayana.The characters were generally good and I liked Noah and Dan very much. Marnie was fine apart from the (yawn!) obligatory tragic backstory which was a distraction, despite that fact that she claimed (unconvincingly in my opinion) that it helped her work out what was going on. I know we were supposed to like Ed, but he was a bit lacking somehow. He operated very much as an adoring hanger-on to Marnie and didn't seem terribly effective in his job.For the first half of this novel I would have given four stars, but it just all got a bit too sick and twisted and violent for me. I started skimming some of the sections (why did Marnie waste so many chapters fruitlessly talking to Hope's nasty father when poor Noah was being tortured?) and feeling a bit icky by association. I found the ending drawn out and Marnie's decision to visit Stuke alone a bit of a repetition (had she learnt nothing?). The very final chapter, on the other hand, was really very good.
    • 4/5
      Someone Else's Skin is Sarah Hilary's debut crime novel featuring Detective Inspector Marnie Rome. Hilary introduces us to Rome in a crime scene involving a stabbing from five years ago - one that was personal. Fast forward to present day. Rome and her partner are heading to a women's shelter to interview a witness. But when they arrive, they walk in on a murder - a stabbing. The eight women in the shelter all saw something, but none of their stories match. Who is telling the truth? Why would anyone lie? What secrets do these women have? Great premise, great characters. Rome is a strong female lead - smart and preferring to operate on her own terms - sometimes to her detriment. The past effects her view of the present and she often makes judgement calls with those memories colouring her decisions - not always the wisest move. Rome's partner, DS Jake is a great character as well - not a cookie cutter supporting character. He has his own back story and plays a major role in this first book I thought I had a good inkling of where Hilary was taking her story, but she offered up more than one twist that changed the direction of the story. Her exploration of domestic abuse and our perceptions and misconceptions of this crime are thought provoking. Racism and homophobia are also up for discussion. Hilary's writing is sharp, the dialogue believable, the investigation flawed enough to keep things moving forward and the reader interested and the final chapters are an action filled finale - all adding up to a cracking good read. See for yourself - read an excerpt of Someone Else's Skin. In the author's notes at the end of the book, Hilary thanks her agent 'who refused to let the slush pile have me." My thanks to her agent as well - I really enjoyed this character and Hilary's writing. I'll be watching for the second in the series - No Other Darkness - due out in the UK in Spring of 2015.
    • 5/5
      I really loved this book! The driving force of the plot is that a man is stabbed at a shelter for battered women when bringing both flowers and a knife when visiting his wife. He is, of course, not supposed to be there. So what were his intentions which ultimately cause his wife to stab him. There are so many twists and turns in this novel. It was a shear joy to read as a mystery lover. What seems to be never is in this great book.