Hidden Scars: A completely gripping crime thriller with a nail-biting twist (Detective Kim Stone Book 17)

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It would not at all be surprising to discover a long-running series losing steam, running its course, becoming stale and predictable and boring.

She’s exactly the kind of Detective to take this case personally, even when she hasn’t faced danger and her own mortality head on, but given what happened in the previous book, Six Graves, Kim is nursing new demons that add a layer of volatility to an already focused and determined mind. All of that to say, it’s a rocky beginning for the team when this book begins but soon enough you’re thrust straight into the action per usual. When I say intentional, I mean it was done so to educate the reader in a more "natural" way through the characters learning about it.Her first case that gets her attention is the alleged suicide 19-year-old Jamie Wells, who her adversary DI Burns has just brushed it under the carpet. When nine-year-old best friends Charlie and Amy disappear, two families are plunged into a living nightmare.

The main case in Hidden Scars is another fascinating one, and focuses on the LGBT community and conversion therapy. 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. This one sounds like there is a lot of background revealed about some of the characters which I love.But she's soon relying on her police instincts as she realises that the initial verdict of suicide in her latest case is all wrong. The first is the death of a young man, framed to look like a suicide, that leads the team into a very murky world with prejudice and intolerance at its very heart. I am looking forward for her next investigation, and hope she will not be suffering any negative repercussions in her health after all her bravery and hard work. Kim's character continues to grow in Hidden Scars and the title of the book reflects Kim's circumstances as accurately as several of the other characters who feature. 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.

Rushing to the scene of Grace’s disappearance, Detective Kim Stone finds a chilling piece of evidence: the engraved heart bracelet belonging to Melody Jones – the little girl who was taken from a playground exactly twenty-five years ago. Sending one of her own undercover into Unity Farm is high risk but it’s Kim’s only hope if she is to catch a killer – someone Kim is convinced the victims knew and trusted. But it was seeing the contrast between Burns’ lackluster leadership and Kim’s, particularly the end results and the team dynamics that reminded me just how great she is at doing this, even with her prickly behavior. Up against a sociopath who seems to know her every weakness, for Detective Stone, each moveshe makes could be deadly. A 19-year-old man, Jamie Mills, was found hanging from a tree, and the case was written off as suicide.

The Queen of crime, Angela Marson has done it again, with Hidden Scars the 17th book in the Kim Stone series. This is such a clever tactic because there is never a dull moment and it always adds even more tension and suspense to the story. It goes without saying that the plot is superb, and that Ms Marsons has found another way to depict sick and twisted people. While many other long running series lose their impact this series still holds my full attention and goes from strength to strength.