It's hard to keep a long-running series fresh and interesting, but Angela Marsons is still going strong with this 14th book featuring DI Kim Stone.
Kim Stone is quite the complicated character with all sorts of heavy backstory and an abrasive personality that has no warm and fuzzy mode. The current members of her team stationed at Halesowen CID include long-time "friends" that the reader has come to know and love through the many installments. It's always fun to catch up with them and watch their personal and professional growth as they investigate some truly awful crimes. That's why I think it would be a mistake not to read them all, in order from the beginning, before reaching for this one.
Multiple victims tortured and murdered in heinous ways with all the methods different. What do they have in common? Turns out they were all part of the witness protection scheme. Who is killing them and why?
In another parallel story, reporter Tracy Frost is digging into the past of Trisha Morley, a woman who was thought to be murdered by her husband a year ago but he has never been brought to justice. Can Tracy find information that will lead to his conviction?
The narrative features all the detail of a police procedural that we want to know including descriptions of the grisly torture. It's a solid crime thriller that won't disappoint fans.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for this e-book ARC to read and review.
This is part of a long-running series that should be read in order.
Genre - crime thriller, police procedural
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