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Tastes Like Fear (D.I. Marnie Rome 3)

  • Author
    • Sarah Hilary
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Sarah Hilary won the 2015 Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year with her debut, the 2014 Richard and Judy pick SOMEONE ELSE'S SKIN. She followed up with NO OTHER DARKNESS, proclaimed as 'riveting' by Lisa Gardner and 'truly mesmerising' by David Mark. Now D.I. Marnie Rome returns in her third novel.

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.

D.I. 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...
  • Published: Jul 28 2016
  • 198 x 128mm
  • ISBN: 9781472226433

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Press Reviews

  • Julia Crouch

    It's meaty, dark and terrifying. Unflinchingly violent and beautifully big-hearted in equal measure. And Sarah's writing is glorious - she tells us things in new ways, gives us a fully fleshed, sensual world to inhabit for the novel
  • Caro Ramsay

    I think it must be one of the debut novels of next year, if not THE debut novel... (It will be if there is any justice in the world!)
  • Cath Staincliffe

    Intelligently and fluently written with a clever plot and an energetic pace, dealing with harrowing topics and shot through with humanity, I think Sarah's onto a winning series and I really look forward to reading the next instalment
  • Steven Dunne

    It's written with the verve and assurance of a future star and deserves to be a big hit
  • Helen Dunmore

    It has such pace and force. It's very disturbing and builds up to a terrific climax
  • Richard Jones of Bristol Review of Books

    I finished it today and it's completely brilliant, complex, thrilling, brutal, tender, scary and intriguing. What a great book. The pacing is superb, the plot is compelling, the characters are so well drawn. The ending is ingenious
  • Alex Marwood

    Brilliant. I put everything else aside when I have one of her books in the house
  • Alison Graham

    Radio Times
    A tense, terrifying tale of obsession and possession . . . a writer at the top of her game
  • Eva Dolan

    A truly chilling exploration of control, submission and the desire to step out of a normal life
  • Crimespree </i>magazine<i>
    Writes with an effortless ease and fervour that displays what an accomplished writer she is
  • Northern Crime </i>blog<i>
    Tastes Like Fear is quality intelligent crime, with enough twists to keep you glued to the page and a massive dose of terrifying anticipation
  • Pam Reader </i>blog
    Tastes Like Fear is an extraordinary depiction of psychological and economic violence that is genuinely chilling
  • Joanne Sheppard </i>blog
    A masterclass in pace and plot
  • Random Things Through My Letterbox </i>blog
    Tastes Like Fear is a triumph; brutal, honest and quite brilliant
  • Live and Deadly </i>blog
    I cannot recommend this book highly enough
  • Never Imitate </i>blog
    It is devious, dark, deliciously chilling. A formidable addition to an accomplished series that just keeps getting better and better
  • CrimeSquad
    A tautly conceived story that will grab you from the first page and refuse to let go until the last
  • Crime Time
    Tastes Like Fear is every bit as assured and involving as its two predecessors, and Hilary is a writer who is clearly here to stay
  • The Bath Magazine
    Fast-paced, tightly plotted and well-written
  • For Winter Nights </i>blog<i>
    Yet again the author proves herself to be among the leaders of contemporary British crime fiction
  • Daily Mail
    One of Britain's best new crime writers
  • N. J. Cooper

    Hilary's depiction of 13-year-old Laura Beswick, Loz, is heartbreaking and convincing. This pacy, easy-reading novel is lifted by its perceptive examination of the distress of girls who don't believe they fit their allotted space in the world and the agony of the parents who try to make them understand how deeply they are loved
  • Julia Crouch

    Marnie goes from strength to strength... this one drips with the gritty, dirty, danger of the urban wastelands around the river
  • Kate Rhodes

    Highly compelling and atmospheric... the storyline and characters involved me completely, from the very first
  • Sydney Herald
    Mixing a strong sense of social justice with carefully crafted characters and an interesting plot, this is a powerful piece of crime writing that builds to an emotionally charged conclusion