Never Be Broken (D.I. Marnie Rome 6)
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Never Be Broken (D.I. Marnie Rome 6)
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Imogen Church
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Sarah Hilary
About this listen
'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.
(P)2019 Headline Publishing Group Ltd©2019 Sarah Hilary
Critic Reviews
[A] searing perceptive novel
Deeply contemporary, painfully real, heartbreakingly good (Mick Herron)
Never Be Broken gloriously demonstrates that modern crime fiction really isn't all about the murders (Val McDermid)
Addictive, chilling and beautifully written. The timely story pulls you in deep (Will Dean)
The Marnie Rome stories are clever and sharp, but they also have the most incredibly emotional depth and clarity. I adored it (Joanna Cannon)
Sarah Hilary is going to be up there with the likes of Ruth Rendell, PD James and Val McDermid, as a game changer of British crime fiction
Tough, tender, absolutely terrifying (Erin Kelly)
Heartbreaking, tense, intelligent storytelling from a writer at the top of her game. You won't get better writing than this
Magnificent (Alex Marwood)
Compulsive and page-turning (Melanie McGrath)
A satisfyingly complex mystery
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.
strange voices...
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