Someone Else’s Skin acclaimed for ‘astounding’ mix of subtle storytelling and bloody subject matter
One of the UK’s top crime-writing awards has gone to a debut, after Sarah Hilary won the Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year award with Someone Else’s Skin.
Featuring a detective inspector whose parents have been murdered by her foster brother, a murky mystery involving domestic violence and a hair-raising torture scene, the novel saw off shortlisted titles by major writers including Peter James and Belinda Bauer to win the £3,000 prize on Thursday.
“For a debut novel it was astounding,” said novelist and judge Ann Cleeves. “Although the subject matter is really quite bloody and violent, there are no gratuitous descriptions – instead she has this dreadful sense of horror, but it is done delicately and subtly. It always stops just as your imagination takes over.”
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Featuring a detective inspector whose parents have been murdered by her foster brother, a murky mystery involving domestic violence and a hair-raising torture scene, the novel saw off shortlisted titles by major writers including Peter James and Belinda Bauer to win the £3,000 prize on Thursday.
“For a debut novel it was astounding,” said novelist and judge Ann Cleeves. “Although the subject matter is really quite bloody and violent, there are no gratuitous descriptions – instead she has this dreadful sense of horror, but it is done delicately and subtly. It always stops just as your imagination takes over.”
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