It must be every Police Officers nightmare case. A completely random murder of a woman who has no enemies. She has done nothing wrong, or has she.
When the first body is discovered that is what Kim Stone is faced with, but everybody has secrets, nobody can have gone through life without upsetting somebody. Can they?
Then a second body, again seemingly random, again no enemies.
But when the teams start digging, are they going to find connections between these two innocent people, is there a link, maybe they are not so squeaky clean as they first seemed.
What I loved about this part of the book is the way Angela Marsons has looked at the way people look at other people. One mans innocent is another mans, or woman’s, villain.
Nobody can go through life without upsetting somebody.
Sometimes just doing your job, or going about your day-to-day business can upset the wrong person, but where is the overlap between the victims.
When a third body is found the team really do end up scratching their heads because this one really does seem totally innocent.
Meanwhile a long standing feud between two neighbouring families in a rural location is providing Kim with a side bar head ache.
Why do two neighbouring families hate each other so much, and what is it that finally trips one of them over the edge.
Angela Marsons has done it again. Without giving too much away she has managed to write a completely compelling and realistic story which has included elements of society that, although we don’t see every day, certainly exist and are probably closer to home than most of us care to admit.
The interaction between Stone and her team is brilliant, and I love the ongoing side stories of their personal lives, but it’s Stone herself I most engage with.
There is something about her personality, the way she thinks, and the actions she decides on, that make these books special for me.
I’ve been with this series from the beginning. In one of my very first blogs, before this series started, I said I didn’t like long books, or authors who published more than one book a year. Well I’m happy to say Angela Marsons has proved me wrong.
This is book 23 in the series, and they are published about every six months, and this is by far my favourite series of crime books, and it just keeps getting stronger.
Pages: 370. Publisher: Bookouture. Audiobook length: 8 hours 17 minutes. Narrator: Jan Cramer
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