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Kim is haunted but resilient, especially when the future of her team is threatened by the incompetence of the DI supposedly holding it all together in her absence.
Meanwhile, Stacey is trying to find a missing accountant, but feels it may just be a case of him leaving his wife. Kim visits Jamie’s parents and is shocked to hear that they had sent him to a clinic to ‘cure’ him of his sexuality. But then she finds a crucial, overlooked detail: Jamie had a recent injury that would have made it impossible for him to climb the tree. Then a young man’s body is found in a local lake with his throat cut and Kim makes a link between the victim and Samantha.As Kim investigates, she discovers that James recently suffered a leg injury that prevented him from climbing trees. Late one summer evening, Detective Kim Stone arrives at Haden Hill Park to the scene of a horrific crime: a woman in her sixties tied to a swing with barbed wire and an X carved into the back of her neck. I'm a fan of Marsons for several reasons, one being she usually gives us two mysteries instead of one. One thing that does happen exactly as we expect is the camaraderie and the team spirit between our main characters. As more sex workers are murdered in quick succession, each death more violent than the last, Kim and her team realise that the initial killing was no one-off frenzied attack, but a twisted serial killer preying on the vulnerable.
I think this topic resonated with Marsons because she really flexed her writing skills in some sections. She reveals a certain vulnerability that we have not seen before and which takes a bit of getting used to.
She is supposed to be taking things easy and slowly transitioning back to work, but Kim does not like to do anything easy. Better and better… I absolutely loved this latest instalment of DI Kim Stone and couldn’t put the book down from the off, grabbing any moment I could to read on. I loved seeing the team come back to life and enjoyed the banter and easy respect between members we’ve come to know and love.
When the body of a young man is found beheaded and staked to the ground in a secluded area of the Clent Hills, Kim and her new squad rush to the crime scene. While the mysteries are compelling and most standalone, it’s the character development that is the most interesting.Still mending her broken mind and body from her last harrowing case, Kim is supposed to be easing back into work gently. With the investigation quickly gathering momentum, Kim finds herself exposed to great danger and in the sights of a lethal individual undertaking their own twisted experiment. The case sparks painful childhood memories for Kim who suffered at the hands of her own abusive mother, but it just makes her more determined to uncover the truth. I absolutely LOVED the originality of this plot, something that even though I've only read in passing has always held and intrigue to me. 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.
There have been several deaths that at first glance look like suicides, but Kim's spidery senses kick in and it is soon proven that they are infact murders. Forced to work alongside Detective Travis, with whom she shares a troubled past, Kim begins to uncover a dark secretive relationship between the families who own the land in which the bodies were found. Additionally, Barney gets the star treatment, and some visitors from previous books make an appearance. This book really does pick up after the events in the last book and I believe to fully enjoy this book, one really needs more background information, and I would recommend going back and at least reading that book before this one (you could even go back to the beginning!We are not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other Web sites or media without our permission. With DS Penn immersed in the murder case of a young man, Kim and her team are already stretched and up against one of the most ruthless killers they’ve ever encountered. Her tenacity and skills are second to none and after being constantly being belittled and made Tea Girl by DI Burns whilst Kim was recuperating it was the case she needed to make her shine again. When Kim comes back to work, it becomes known that he had a knee injury and the natural of his wound meant he could not have climbed a tree, and his death is ruled a murder.
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