An exclusive interview with Marnie Rome

Written for the Richard & Judy Book Club. Click on the text to be taken to the full interview. Commander Tim Welland questions Marnie in the wake of her parents' brutal murder by her step brother. This one was tough to write, not least because it takes place five years before Marnie becomes DI Rome.

TW: We need to talk about what happened at the house yesterday, but we don’t need to do it now. It can wait until you’re feeling less . . . 

MR: I want to do it now. Please, sir. I’d rather get it done and if it helps you to make sense of what he . . . I want to get it done. 

TW: All right, detective. In that case, let’s start with how long you’ve known the suspect, Stephen Keele. 

MR: Six years. October 12th 2003. That’s when they invited me over to meet him. They’d told me they were planning to foster someone. A boy. But that’s when I met him. October 12th.

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