Sarah Hilary Books in Order
Explore Sarah Hilary's books in reading order, with summaries of DI Marnie Rome's investigations and standalone psychological thrillers about secrets and vulnerability.
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Sarah Hilary books in publication order
10 books
Someone Else's Skin
by Sarah Hilary
2014
DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake visit a domestic violence shelter to interview a witness, only to encounter a stabbing. Conflicting accounts and questions about the shelter's security draw Marnie into a case that echoes her own trauma.
No Other Darkness
by Sarah Hilary
2015
Two boys' bodies are discovered in a bunker beneath a London garden, confronting DI Marnie Rome with a family's troubling history. When more children disappear, she and DS Noah Jake must untangle the connection before further harm.
Tastes Like Fear
by Sarah Hilary
2016
A girl vanishes after causing a fatal car crash, leading DI Marnie Rome into the world of teenage runaways. Her search focuses on Harm, a man offering vulnerable girls shelter within a secretive new family.
Quieter Than Killing
by Sarah Hilary
2017
Random assaults pull Marnie Rome and Noah Jake onto London's freezing streets, while a burglary at Marnie's family home appears personal. An unreported missing child suggests connections between crimes shaped by troubled childhoods and concealed histories.
Come and Find Me
by Sarah Hilary
2018
DI Marnie Rome hunts a dangerous escaped prisoner whose devoted female correspondents may be at risk. Her concern for the women collides with unresolved guilt about her foster brother, the man who killed her parents.
Never Be Broken
by Sarah Hilary
2019
Young people are being killed and exploited across London, but the death of a wealthy man's daughter attracts disproportionate attention. Marnie Rome and Noah Jake investigate connected cases while Noah's personal turmoil threatens to become an obsession.
Fragile
by Sarah Hilary
2021
Runaway former foster child Nell Ballard accepts a job at Starling Villas, hoping to find somewhere to belong. Her employer Robin Wilder's rigid rules and hidden secrets make the house an uncertain refuge for her own troubled past.
Black Thorn
by Sarah Hilary
2023
Six families move into an exclusive Cornish housing development hoping for a peaceful future. Six weeks later, six people are dead, and surviving resident Agnes Gale sets out to uncover the secrets behind the abandoned estate’s collapse.
Sharp Glass
by Sarah Hilary
2024
A professional house packer awakens imprisoned in a remote cellar by a man demanding answers about a murdered girl. Their confrontation exposes concealed anger and competing secrets as each searches for the truth behind the death.
The Drowning Place
by Sarah Hilary
2026
Detective Joseph Ashe investigates a brutal crime in the town where he alone survived a school-bus disaster seventeen years earlier. Working with newcomer Laurie Bower, he must confront local secrets and the tragedy that still shadows his life.
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