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While Jamie’s cold, lifeless body lay in the morgue, Detective Kim Stone stared at the empty board in the incident room and felt her anger boil. She is able to convince (f00l) the therapist that she has progressed further along in recovery than in reality and still has disturbing nightmares. Completely unexpected and, to be fair, I’m not sure I had cottoned on that we didn’t know it before.
And when a handwritten letter from the killer lands on Kim’s desk addressed to her, and pleading for help, she knows time is running out to bring the little boy home alive. The insidious nature of societal judgement is highlighted and the eventual killers, although definitely in the wrong and evil and, and….When Kim walks into the office the first thing she hears is Burns telling Stacey to remove Jamie Mills from the white board. She discovered a love of writing at Primary School when a short piece on the rocks and the sea gained her the only merit point she ever got.
I needed something good to take my mind off my recent bad luck with some of my reading choices, and I decided to turn to DI Kim Stone because this series hasn’t failed me yet. Hidden Scars is the seventeenth instalment in the constantly compelling DI Kim Stone series, set in Britain’s Midlands.Stacey (a competent detective) has been made useless due to the temporary leader's blatant misogyny. Thank you to Angela Marsons, her publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read an Advanced Readers Copy of this amazing book, in exchange for my unbiased review. When Kim discovers that he’s forced Stacey to stop investigating the apparent suicide of a young man, she can’t help but get involved, introducing her to the murky world of sexual reorientation clinics. And when she learns that Sandra was banned from the church grounds and had been receiving death threats too, she’s ever more certain that Sandra’s gifts are at the heart of everything.
I was so glad that the team has got back together and like the banter between the team and that slowly Kim is getting back to her old self again. But with nothing to link the two victims except the cold, calculated nature of their death, this could be her most difficult case yet. But when they visit the center the owners are not forthcoming with their answers and any patients there were given NDO agreements so not to discuss what went on there.Kim and team members discover that participants in the therapy were forced to undergo horrendous treatment in an attempt to eliminate homosexual thoughts and behaviour.
A quick tour of the facility finds nothing untoward but they have been kept away from the treatment areas where the real damage occurs. Kim has been on leave, recovering from both the physical and emotional damage caused by her last case, where she was actually beaten to death before being rescued and brought back to life. I’ve really got to find an opportunity to read an Angela Marsons book – if only Bookouture would put them on NetGalley sooner.
ABOUT 'HIDDEN SCARS': While Jamie’s cold, lifeless body lay in the morgue, Detective Kim Stone stared at the empty board in the incident room and felt her anger boil.
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