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Never Be Broken

DI Marnie Rome, Book 6

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Never Be Broken

By: Sarah Hilary
Narrated by: Imogen Church
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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

'Deeply contemporary, painfully real, heartbreakingly good' Mick Herron

'DI Marnie Rome is a three-dimensional character of an emotional depth rarely encountered in the world of fictional cops' The Times

Children are dying on London's streets. Frankie Reece, stabbed through the heart, outside a corner shop. Others recruited from care homes, picked up and exploited; passed like gifts between gangs. They are London's lost.
Then Raphaela Belsham is killed. She's thirteen years old, her father is a man of influence, from a smart part of town. And she's white. Suddenly, the establishment is taking notice.
DS Noah Jake is determined to handle Raphaela's case and Frankie's too. But he's facing his own turmoil, and it's becoming an obsession. DI Marnie Rome is worried, and she needs Noah on side. Because more children are disappearing, more are being killed by the day and the swelling tide of violence needs to be stemmed before it's too late.

NEVER BE BROKEN is a stunning, intelligent and gripping novel which explores how the act of witness alters us, and reveals what lies beneath the veneer of a glittering city.

©2019 Sarah Hilary (P)2019 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Heartfelt England

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strange voices...

Promising series but this book gets too bogged down in the inner life of Noah. Whilst the lead characters of Marnie and Noah are okay, they aren't interesting enough to dwell on at the cost of a good detective story.

i'm not sold on Imogen Church (preferred the more understated reader of book 1). She is one of those readers who combines a posh (often breathy, emotive) narrator voice with a range of caricatural Eliza-Doolittle-cockney accents. For some reason the assumption of such readers is that the police almost always talk to each other in angry, shouty, rude voices - especially those in the higher ranks. Aside from being a cliche, this is tedious to listen to.

Unfortunately, the book also calls for a young male Jamaican voice. To be fair, Imogen is quite good at putting on various accents but the race/class distinctions are a bit grating when so obviously performed by someone who sounds like a middle class white woman. Might've worked better with the inclusion of an additional reader.

Hopefully the writer will drop the inner voices in future and focus on plot.

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