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A review by thebooktrail88
Quieter Than Killing by Sarah Hilary
4.0
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I always look forward to the next Sarah Hilary. I know Im going to head straight to the kind of London I would never want to visit for real, but with Marnie her detective, I’m right there . I might even be a few steps ahead of her if it weren’t for the frightening and chilling situations she gets herself involved in.
What really works for me is the multilayered angle to the stories – Marnie must have one of the most interesting and compelling backstories in crime fiction. Marnie’s relationship with her foster brother, Stephen – the same brother who has been imprisoned for the brutal murder of her parents…like a car crash you know it’s going to be gory reading but I just couldn’t take my eyes of this.
This book is complex and busy but never hard to navigate – theres many key key players and secondary characters interwoven into this puzzle – deception, betrayal, vigilantism, violence and the haunting past.
There’s a lot more buried where that came from if you excuse the pun. This is a dark dark world Sarah Hilary places you in but it’s the literary equivalent of being kicked in the teeth and loving it. Even with all my teeth now gone, this book still has bite.
Quieter than Killing – a clever title and a ver clever cliff hanger…
I always look forward to the next Sarah Hilary. I know Im going to head straight to the kind of London I would never want to visit for real, but with Marnie her detective, I’m right there . I might even be a few steps ahead of her if it weren’t for the frightening and chilling situations she gets herself involved in.
What really works for me is the multilayered angle to the stories – Marnie must have one of the most interesting and compelling backstories in crime fiction. Marnie’s relationship with her foster brother, Stephen – the same brother who has been imprisoned for the brutal murder of her parents…like a car crash you know it’s going to be gory reading but I just couldn’t take my eyes of this.
This book is complex and busy but never hard to navigate – theres many key key players and secondary characters interwoven into this puzzle – deception, betrayal, vigilantism, violence and the haunting past.
There’s a lot more buried where that came from if you excuse the pun. This is a dark dark world Sarah Hilary places you in but it’s the literary equivalent of being kicked in the teeth and loving it. Even with all my teeth now gone, this book still has bite.
Quieter than Killing – a clever title and a ver clever cliff hanger…