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Thursday, 31 July 2014

Marnie Rome books 2, 3 and 4

My happy news of the week is that Headline have asked for two more Marnie Rome books, to follow on from Someone Else's Skin (out in paperback on 29 August) and No Other Darkness (to come in Spring 2015). I'm going to be busy...

Meanwhile, isn't the paperback of Someone Else's Skin just gorgeous? I love it.

I'm over at Omnimystery in the US today, talking about how Marnie stalked me until I told her story. Let's hoping she keeps stalking me until I'm done.

Marnie had a walk-on role in an earlier story of mine, and she'd been watching me from the wings ever since. More or less patiently, although I could tell she was starting to wonder when I'd get the hint and write her a whole story. It took me a little longer to find her detective sergeant, but Noah Jake entered the fray and I was all set, more or less. 
I wrote the first draft swiftly, for the sake of the momentum and in case I lost my nerve. It wasn't great but it had a good spine, and I could see where the layers were needed to make it better. I was lucky with my cast of characters. Once I'd picked a women's refuge as the setting, the characters came to me: lost women with stories they were reluctant to tell; survivors. And the less savoury characters, one of whom hung back in the shadows until the second draft, unnerving me. 

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Someone Else's Skin

Never Be Broken

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Quieter Than Killing

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Tastes Like Fear

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Marnie Rome #2

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