Introducing DI Marnie Rome, called to a women's refuge to take a routine witness statement, DI Marnie Rome instead walks in on an attempted murder. Trying to uncover the truth from layers of secrets, Marnie finds herself confronting her own demons. Because she, of all people, knows that it can be those closest to us we should fear the most..Five years ago, her family home was the scene of a shocking and bloody crime that left her parents dead and her foster brother in prison. Winner of the Theakston's 2015 Crime Novel of the Year, and a 2014 Richard and Judy Book Club pick.