Sarah Hilary


Sarah Hilary is a UK crime novelist and former bookseller. Her debut, Someone Else's Skin, won the 2015 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Hilary was born in Cheshire before moving to the South East to study for a First Class Honours Degree in the History of Ideas. She won the Fish Criminally Short Histories Prize in 2008 for her story, Fall River, August 1892. In 2012, she was awarded the .
Her debut novel, Someone Else's Skin, was published in 2014, and was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick in the same year. In 2016, it was selected as one of the titles for in the UK. It has also been a Silver Falchion and Macavity Award finalist in the US.
Her second book, No Other Darkness, was shortlisted for a Barry Award.
Hilary has written about her family history, most notably in for The Guardian, March 2014. Her mother and grandparents were prisoners of the Japanese in Batu Lintang camp where her grandfather, Stanley George Hill, died in 1945. Hilary wrote about her grandmother's courage in the camp for the in 2017.
She wrote the introduction for Virago's new editions of three books by Patricia Highsmith republished in 2016: The Two Faces of January, This Sweet Sickness, and People Who Knock on the Door. Hilary talks about Highsmith's legacy for today's crime writers in , June 2016.
She lives in Bath.

Works

Marnie Rome series

TitlePublisherPublishedISBN
Someone else's SkinHeadline2014978-1472207685
No Other DarknessHeadline2015978-1472207722
Tastes Like FearHeadline2016978-1472236838
Quieter Than KillingHeadline2017978-1472241108
Come and Find MeHeadline2018978-1472248961
Never Be BrokenHeadline2019978-1472249005