"If you were to ask me to recommend a crime fiction series, this is it, this is the one."
If you were to ask me to recommend a crime fiction series, this is it, this is the one. Sarah Hilary has the ability to write with such beautiful, quiet clarity even when the words scream and pound at your thoughts. ‘Never Be Broken’ is the sixth in the D.I. Marnie Rome series, do go back and start at the beginning if you come to this recommendation for the first time, the books have to be read in order, just simply to make the most of every thought, every word.
Sarah Hilary’s debut ‘Someone Else’s Skin’ won the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year, and I have hunted down every one in the series since. The pain and torment at the centre of London society, the stabbings, the gangs, sit at the centre of ‘Never Be Broken’.
The first few pages focus on ‘now’, fiercely kicking me right in the centre of my feelings, vividly bruising me before chapter one then returns to 48 hours earlier. This is intense, startling storytelling, it feels… it feels real, as though this is happening right now. ‘Never Be Broken’ may be fiction, you could think it is fact, it hurts, it shocks, it reads so beautifully it just has to be one of my picks of the month.
Compulsive, gripping and dark, NEVER BE BROKEN is the stunning new novel in the Marnie Rome series, for fans of Peter James, Mark Billingham, and Val McDermid
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Compulsive, gripping and dark, NEVER BE BROKEN is the stunning new novel in the Marnie Rome series, for fans of Peter James, Mark Billingham, and Val McDermid Children are dying on London's streets. Frankie Reece, stabbed through the heart, outside a corner shop.
Never Be Broken features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Star Books, Thriller and Suspense, Fiction, Recommendations
Paperback, Hardback. £11.69, down from the £12.99 cover price. In Stock.
Never Be Broken was written by Sarah Hilary and published by Headline Book Publishing an imprint of Headline Publishing Group
Never Be Broken has 375 pages
Yes it is part of A D.I. Marnie Rome Novel series
£11.69, reduced from £12.99. In Stock.
