I am a huge fan of the Marnie Rome series, and I was delighted to receive this book to read as an arc, so thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher.
Marnie Rome and Noah Jake work so well together, I love how we have got to know them over the series of books and there own personal stories certainly move up a gear in this book. This one involves a riot and prison escape, with psychopath Michael Vokey on the loose. Several people are in hospital as a result of the riot and Marnie and Noah have to untangle exactly what happened and who is protecting Vokey.
There are a few different characters whose storylines interlink and the author weaves a brilliant story which keeps us desperate to know what is happening. More than just a police procedural, the characterisation is superb, with quite a few twists keeping us guessing. Also very sad in places!
As always, this book can be read as a stand alone, but I would say you get more out of it if you have read the previous books in the series. Would certainly recommend.

Firstly thanks to Netgalley for the chance of a free copy in return for an honest review.
Sarah Hilary nails it again, even better than her last book. DI Marnie Rome is again at the forefront sharing her breathing space with psychopaths and hardened criminals. If anything I found this to be one of the best in the series so far. Although this can be read without having read the previous in the series, it does help to have read them as there are continuing storylines which will be somewhat confusing otherwise.
How do you solve a crime when most of the witnesses are currently on breathing apparatus and unconscious and blinded by supposition the offender is on the run ... or is he ?
Plenty of twists and turns, excellent characterization and another page turner ... bring on book 6.

This was the first DI Marnie police procedural I have read and I enjoyed it but feel that I would certainly have benefited from having read the first four books in the series in which =I am sure that her character would have been developed and the backstory created.

As it was I took it as it was as a well told and researched thriller which dealt with a prison riot and its serious ramifications as well as the effects of obsessive relationships.

Well worth a read but perhaps take them in order.

Due to ill health this is my first book of the year, and wow, what a read to kick off 2018 with!

‘Come and Find Me’ by Sarah Hilary is the fifth in her DI Marnie Rome series and is the best one so far. It sets off at a cracking pace and doesn’t slow down right up until the final page has been turned. With twists and turns aplenty, it’s full of everything we’ve come to expect from this series, with some genuinely heart stopping moments along the way.

Although this is the fifth book in the series and does have threads from the previous stories woven throughout, I do feel it would still read well as a stand-alone. I would, however, recommend that you read the entire series from the beginning as it is so good you will not want to miss a thing!

As usual, the wonderful characterisation of all the main players, but especially Marnie Rome and Noah Jake, add layers to the story, making you care about them so much that you feel their pain and heartache right along with them.

A superb psychological thriller that takes you on a rollercoaster of a journey and one that I highly recommend. A very easy 5 stars from me.

Thank you to Headline and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read an ARC of this outstanding book.

This book is written very differently to previous books, it almost felt like a different author. Not a bad book just not what I was expecting.

Love this series. It just gets better and better. .

This is a sensational addition to Sarah Hilary's stellar London based series featuring DI Marnie Rome. It all begins with a bang with a fully fledged riot at HMP Cloverton, assumed to be instigated by the dangerous Michael Volkey, who manages to escape. The fallout has Volkey's cellmate, Ted Elms, on life support, experiencing locked in syndrome whilst in a coma. Marnie's foster brother, Stephen Keele, responsible for the murder of her parents, has acquired life threatening injuries in the riot, leaving her in a quandry, if he dies she will never learn what happened and why. As DI Rome, and her team are called in to investigate the riot, they find themselves encountering the intricacies and complications of being a prison inmate, and the fear, threats and lies that underpin prison life, spilling to the outside world too.

Michael Volkey's crimes have attracted a strong fan following from women, including Laura Chorley and Ruth Hull, two apparently different personalities, communicating via letters with their deepest fears and secrets. As Marnie, driven by her demons, leads the hunt, she fears for the women as Volkey is expected to head their way. There is the blackest of humour as the house packed with old items becomes known as the 'Antiques Roadshow Massacre'. The narrative is delivered from a number of characters including Ted Elms, although primarily Marnie and Noah. The multiple story threads slowly begin to connect, leading to the totally out of the blue ending. Along the way, Hilary expertly places a number of twists.

Hilary has done impressive research on prison, the problems of the prison system that exacerbate the lives of inmates, highlighting life inside with authenticity and realism, providing us with her customary social and political commentary. What drives this series is the ongoing character development of DI Marnie Rome, her troubled personal history and obsession with Stephen Keele, mirroring the women who obsess over Michael Volkey. Noah has his own family travails with his mother blaming him for his brother, Sol's problems. If you have not come across this series, I strongly urge you to acquaint yourself with it. A brilliant and compulsive read, cannot wait for the next in the series. Many thanks to Headline for an ARC.

Another cracking read from this author.slightly different from the earlierones in the series with a really good twist at the end. Would highly recommend 5 stars

This is the 5th book in the DI Marnie Rome series by author Sarah Hilary and can be read as a standalone.
The novel centres on the hunt for an escaped prisoner, Michael Vokey, who has escaped from prison during a riot. Two women Lara Chorley and Ruth Hull are infatuation with Michael Vokey and have been writing letters to him while he was in prison. Now Marnie leads the hunt for Vokey and fears that one of the women may have found him and is about to pay the ultimate price.
This novel started with a prison riot and continued at this breakneck pace throughout. A very good read and I look forward to reading other books in this series.
I would like to thank Net Galley and Headline for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

I really didn’t enjoy this as much as the earlier books in the Marnie Rome series. I found it quire confusing and a different style of writing to the other books in the series. After a prison riot, a prisoner, Michael Vokey, is missing and several inmates are in the infirmary. We hear the thoughts of one of these prisoners who shared a cell with Vokey and are given an insight into the man he is.

The police however have a different version of what he is like and we hear how a number of women are seemingly infatuated with him and write to him regularly in prison.

For me, this book was a bit of a let down – too many things going on in the story made it very confusing

I really thought that after reading the others in this series that this book would be just as good.
But this book let me down big time it would have been nice to have had more details about the characters if you have not read the previous books.
This can be read as a stand alone book but makes it harder to follow the characters.
I am not sure about this book in fact I didn't finish it it was a real let down sorry.

I thought Come And Find Me was a good, gripping read. It is a police procedural which has the immense merit that police do actually follow procedure, so it's a pretty plausible story and Sarah Hilary writes very well. It is the fifth in her Marnie Rome series and can be read as a stand-alone, but it's probably best to read at least some of the previous books first.

Marnie, Noah and the team are hunting a dangerous escaped prisoner following a gruesome prison riot which he apparently instigated. We get a third-person narrative from the point of view of various police officers (principally Marnie and Noah) and also the internal voice of another prisoner in hospital after the riot. It's a good story whose surprises actually made sense (which is a very welcome change from those books whose "twists" sacrifice all plausibility of story and character in trying to produce a surprise ending). Hilary develops her characters well and there is some pretty decent psychological insight here, as well as an understanding of the realities of prison life. I became very gripped by the story and the writing.

I do think that Sarah Hilary overdoes the psychologising and backstories of her police characters sometimes. The digressions into the murder of Marnie's parents and Noah's tribulations with his brother - not to mention a lengthy episode involving the dementia of the mother of a minor police character - interrupted the narrative flow. Hilary creates good, rounded characters without all this slightly overblown stuff which was a distraction rather than an enhancement for me.

This small personal reservation aside, I enjoyed Come And Find Me; I can recommend it as a well-written, thoughtful and gripping story.

(I received an ARC via NetGalley.)

Enthralling and very readable, right up to the very end.

So, DI Marnie Rome book five, it still doesn’t feel very long ago when I read Sarah Hilary’s debut Someone Else’s Skin which for me really began my passion for crime fiction. Sarah’s writing is utterly absorbing, her characters are very real and I have been hooked on Marnie and her backstory since I read her debut. I was left reeling at the end of this book which was a powerful and a very emotional piece of writing in many ways. All I can say is, the moment you get your hands on Come and Find Me, put everything else aside and read it!

Sarah opens book five with a prison riot in HMP Cloverton, where Marnie’s foster brother, Stephen Keele is currently serving his time for murdering her parents. Stephen has been rushed to hospital but the main focus is on prisoner, Michael Vokey, who has managed to escape during the rioting. Marnie and her team launch a manhunt to apprehend him and send him back to prison as soon as possible. How could a man, as dangerous as Michael Vokey, been allowed to slip out, unseen and unheard? As the investigation to track him down progresses, we hear that several women, outside of the prison have been writing to him, sharing with him intimate details about themselves, including their addresses. Marnie beings to realise they may be in danger from Vokey, or an even more disturbing realisation is that one of them maybe hiding him. And what about Michael Vokey’s victim who put him in prison?

Sarah Hilary’s novels are always smart and impeccably researched and there is always a strong sense of realism in her plots. Whenever I read one of her Marnie Rome novels, I can never quite pin down who the culprit is and this is one of the aspects about her books that I find really enjoyable, that she always manages to surprise me, and that she always keeps me guessing. The subject of the prison riot in her latest novel is a very topical issue at the moment. I've seen many cases in the news recently where prisons in this country have been subjected to such riots so I could easily picture the scenes in my mind.

Now that I've finished reading Come and Find Me, I really can't wait to find out how the series will progress from here. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of the book to read.

As per usual, Sarah Hillary has left me wanting more. All I could ask of any book. Absolutely love the duo of Marnie and Noah and began to consider who I would want to play them on a TV drama. Again, such sadness within the duo’s personal lives and even though I want them to be happy, I am sure we would be lost without their pain too, as Marnie seems to thrive on hers and I am not sure where she would be without it. This was a tale of twists, turns and blind alleys and a protagonist we only ever hear about in the third person, which was a fascinating perspective. The ending to this book was almost a step too far for me too, as I felt my heart break. Loved it!

I hate to start a series midway so when I was sent this to review I was excited but I realised I would need to read the first four before I got stuck in. I've had such a treat this last few weeks feeding on the entire back catalogue. That said come and find me works well as a stand alone story. I'm a little bereft now that I'll have to wait for the next installment. Highly recommended treat yourself.

I have read all the books in this series and loved them all. This new one does not disappoint. I found the storyline was exciting and the main characters were brilliant. There were plenty of twists in the story to keep the reader entertained. Highly recommended.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Sarah Hilary for the copy of this book. I agreed to give my unbiased opinion voluntarily.

Big fan of the Marnie Rome series, and this one did not disappoint. Marne and Noah are such a great pair to lead the reader through a very well structured plot. Love the dynamic of their relationship at work, then the separate splinters of their personal lives that show the more vulnerable side to them both, One of the best series out there at the moment in my book.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Headline for an advance copy of Come and Find Me, the fifth novel in the DI Marnie Rome series.

There's been a riot at HMP Cloverton and dangerous inmate Michael Vokey is missing after setting fire to the wing and seriously assaulting some fellow inmates. Marnie and her team are called in to investigate but are struggling to find clues or much trace of Vokey.

I thoroughly enjoyed Come and Find Me which has an unusual format but is no less compelling for it. The novel alternates between a comatose Ted Elms' thoughts and Marnie's investigation. Ted Elms is Vokey's cell mate, injured in an attack by him and unconscious so all he can do is muse on how he got there and what led up to the current situation. It means that the reader gets a different appreciation of Vokey than the police but as he has disappeared every impression is just someone's opinion. It makes for a fascinating read as the team try to sift through the lies, self delusion and hazy facts to establish Vokey's whereabouts.

Vokey is quite an elusive character. He is obviously violent, having been sent to prison for attacking a woman he followed home, but he is also manipulative and attracts admirers. He has two women writing to him and sending him photos of themselves. They are the police's first port of call when Vokey escapes in case they are in danger.

I found the prison escape a bit difficult to swallow but I can't fault the rest of the novel. Ms Hillary has created a wonderful ensemble piece with a variety of believable characters and actions. I found Ted Elms' narrative warm and inviting (despite the subject matter), the tale of a quiet man doing his best to share a cell with a violent psychopath and I loved the ring of authenticity that Vokey's victim Julie recounted of her treatment after the trial. All through the novel Vokey touches people's lives and influences their actions and yet he never appears. It's a tour de force.

Come and Find Me is much more than a police procedural with its examination of motives and human frailty and makes for a fascinating read. I have no hesitation in recommending it.

Having devoured the first four books in the series, I was delighted to receive a review copy of book five. The first book was a recommendation for a reading challenge and Marnie Rome has fast become one of my favourite detectives. This is another cracker from Sarah Hilary. A riot in a prison results in the escape of prisoner, Michael Vokey, a seemingly dangerous man. Other prisoners are maimed and injured during the riot and the subsequent fire, including the man responsible for the death of DI Marnie Rome's parents.

I was a little disappointed at first as I found it a bit slow, especially the chapters told from the perspective of Ted Elms, Vokey's cell mate . However, the various threads of the plot began to come together and the book took off as it suddenly became apparent there was much more to the story than was it seemed at first. The author has also further developed the characters of Marnie and Noah, and their angst at personal family issues adds depth to the book.

I am feeling quite bereft at having to part ways with Marnie and Noah again, especially after that ending. When is book six due?

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this review copy.