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Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Quieter Than Killing review - vivid and eerie

 
"As ever, Hilary has an uncanny knack for conjuring up a scene or a character in a few words – the face of the pugilistic wife beater “like the skin setting on custard”; the miserable high-rise block “smelling of chip fat and orange ammonia”. As ever, Rome manages to be both vulnerable and tough, charismatic and brimful of gut feeling. And as ever, Hilary belts out a corker of a story, all wrapped up in her vivid, effortless prose. Long may Marnie Rome walk the streets of our capital." 
Alison Flood writing in the Guardian, March 2017, where Quieter Than Killing is Thriller of the Month 
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Sarah Hilary
Bath, United Kingdom
Someone Else's Skin won the 2015 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and was a Silver Falchion and Macavity Award finalist in the US. No Other Darkness was a Barry Award finalist. Tastes Like Fear was longlisted for Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year 2017, and Quieter Than Killing was the Observer's Thriller of the Month. Come and Find Me, Thriller of the Month in March 2018, is out now. Thanks for reading. Do get in touch: sarah_hilary@btinternet.com
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Someone Else's Skin

Someone Else's Skin

Someone Else's Skin

Someone Else's Skin
Marnie Rome #1

No Other Darkness

No Other Darkness
Marnie Rome #2

Tastes Like Fear

Tastes Like Fear
Marnie Rome #3

Quieter Than Killing

Quieter Than Killing
Marnie Rome #4

Come and Find Me

Come and Find Me
Marnie Rome #5

Marnie Rome series

Marnie Rome series
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EVENTS

22 March Toppings, Bath
27 March Dorset Library, Christchurch
29 March Gateshead Library
14 May Bath Literature Festival
16 May Warwick Books with Lucy Atkins
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27 Oct Wells Festival, with Mick Herron and NJ Cooper

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Molly Cottle was burying stolen spoons in the garden
illustrated by Venetia Sarll, published in Smokelong Quarterly, October 2008

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