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

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Up against a sociopath who seems to know her every weakness, for Detective Stone, each moveshe makes could be deadly.

Quickly taking back charge of her team and the case, Kim visits Jamie’s parents and is shocked to hear that they had sent him to a clinic to "cure" him of his sexuality.Regardless of how good or bad the storyline is why on earth do you insist on employing this narrator ? There is the usual banter, although it is often muted, understandably, as Kim’s fuse seems even shorter than normal – also understandably. The two cases intersect each other seamlessly, to a point where you don’t really see one stop and the other begin. Another apparent suicide is found to be murder and they learn that both of the young victims has been patients at the Change - a facility that promises to cure people of being gay. Kim should be easing back into work gently after a harrowing case left her body and mind broken, but quickly taking charge of her team, Kim is shocked to learn that Jamie’s parents had sent him to a clinic to ‘cure’ him of his sexuality.

She is supposed to be taking things easy and slowly transitioning back to work, but Kim does not like to do anything easy. 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. So if you know you're sensitive to this trigger or have been on the receiving end of such a thing, I'd say avoid this, it's extremely well written, but not worth experiencing unnecessary additional trauma.

Make sure to clear your schedule before you start reading this book, because it’s hard to stop reading once you’re past the first couple of pages. Mentally, however, she’s still got a long way to go despite her duping the therapist to think otherwise. In her last investigation, Kim came very close to death and has been absent from work for two months. I read a review that said it put all Christian Conservatives in one lump and I didn’t think that at all.

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.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. This series truly just gets better and better and I know I’m not alone in wanting the next instalment the second I reach the end of Angela Marson’s latest brilliant offering. Kim actually opened the proverbial can of worms when she pressed further into that suicide, leading down some really distasteful paths but bringing some enlightenment about attitudes towards the LGBTQ community. The closing chapter has an emotional resonance you will find hard to ignore and in which we, for once, see part of Kim’s vulnerability laid bare to those she holds dearest.