5 Stars from me ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I am a long time fan of the Kim Stone books and I believe this is the fourteenth in the series, yet they still feel fresh and exciting.
Twisted Lies is dark, gritty, brutal and gory – it is well paced and the story line is packed full of tension and sub plots.
I couldn’t quite believe what I was reading when Stone is forced to take her arch enemy the seemingly low on morality reporter, Tracy Frost, out for a ‘ridealong’ day. Needless to say this puts Frost in pole position for an investigation and as ever she flirts with danger. This opens up some great interplay between Kim and Frost and I wonder if this will shape the direction of their relations for future books.
As suggested by the title, there are many twisted lies, half truths, and secrets that powerful people would do a lot to ensure stay hidden. There is risk and peril for practically every character as the story unfolds and the death count rises.
Overall this is an intense, gruesome and pacy read with a dual storyline, many deaths and lots at stake. Angela Marsons has delivered another cracking installment in the Kim Stone series and I look forward to reading more. My thanks to the author, Netgalley and Bookouture for an ARC in return for an honest review.
Blurb: Her stomach lurches as she sits in the windowless room. He throws her phone to the ground, grinds it against the floor with the heel of his shoe and brings his face closer to hers. There was no turning back now, her life as she knew it was gone.
When the lifeless body of a man is found on an industrial estate, Detective Kim Stone arrives on the scene and discovers he’s been tortured in the worst way imaginable.
But as she breaks the devastating news to the victim’s wife, Diane Phipps, Kim can’t help feeling that something isn’t quite right about the woman’s reaction.
Twenty-four hours later, the victim’s family disappears into thin air.
Then a second body is found staked to the ground in a local nature reserve.
Desperate to crack the case open quickly, Kim and her team unravel a vital clue – a fiercely guarded secret that links both victims and could cost even more lives.
A secret that some police officers are also protecting.
Faced with deceit from those she should be able to trust, family members who won’t talk, and local reporter, Tracy Frost, opening a can of worms on the case of a woman murdered by her husband a year ago – Kim is in deep water like never before.
Kim must find the motive if she is to find the killer who is systematically targeting and torturing his victims. But can she unlock the shocking truth and stop him before he strikes again?
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