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Five years later a man digging in his garden discovers a bunker. He was trying to make a vegetable bed to teach his young children and the foster child who lives with them about where food comes from and how to grow it. He looks into the underground bunker and sees the bodies of two young boys curled together. Who are the boys? Why have they not been reported missing? Surely two boys of about five and eight cannot disappear without ''someone'' noticing? Or can they?
After reading [[Someone Else's Skin (DI D.I. Marnie Rome1) by Sarah Hilary|Someone Else's Skin]] I was hooked on Sarah Hilary. Sometimes I wonder if the police procedural genre isn't becoming a little ''tired'', with far too many stereotypes as detectives. Middle-aged white men with authority / drink / womanising problems who go off and solve crimes despite the best efforts of their superiors to stop them are thick on the ground. Somehow it doesn't seem quite real and it was a relief to encounter Marnie Rome.
She's totally focused on the boys. Who are they? Why did they die? Only when she's established those two points is she in a position to find out who put the boys into the bunker. The whole CID team and particularly DS Noah Jake is affected by the discovery of the bodies and Rome's aware of this: even hardened officers are deeply touched when the case they're dealing with concerns the death of a child.
I listened to an audio download (which I bought myself) narrated by Imogen Church. She's impressive and a real pleasure to listen to: I particularly liked the voice of Noah Jake and his brother Sol. It's unusual for a woman to capture male voices so well and I look forward to hearing more from her in the future: in fact I've already bought the next audio download.
The book would read well as a standalone, but why deprove yourself of the pleasure of reading the books as they were written? Start with [[Someone Else's Skin (DI D.I. Marnie Rome1) by Sarah Hilary|Someone Else's Skin]].
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