There is surely no tougher critic of a police procedural than an ex-cop, but Someone Else’s Skin did not disappoint. Sarah Hilary’s debut crime novel is meticulously researched, and the characters so brilliantly real I could have been reading about my former life. What the back cover says: Detective Inspector Marie Rome. Dependable; fierce; brilliant at […]
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Guest post: The Missing One, by Lucy Atkins
I recently read The Missing One by debut novelist, Lucy Atkins, which comes out on 16 January. It is a compelling and at times uneasy read, about a woman looking for the truth about her mother, and I couldn’t put it down. I enjoyed it so much I asked Lucy to explain how the story […]