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With every rave and every pan, with every excited GIF and every critical assessment, you've helped the Goodreads community get closer to a very important milestone – the 50 Million Reviews mark! We also touch base with Kim’s boss, DCI Woodward, Alison Lowe, the behaviorist, Keats, the local pathologist, and Mitch, the lead forensic technician and …and who could forget Kim’s faithful dog, Barney. She is able to convince (f00l) the therapist that she has progressed further along in recovery than in reality and still has disturbing nightmares. 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.
And this time, Alex is determined to hit where it hurts most, bringing Kim face-to-face with the woman responsible for the death of Kim’s little brother – her own mother.Woody had told Kim to take it slow and not rush things but it is clear to Kim that it is time for Burns to go. But with nothing to link the two victims except the cold, calculated nature of their death, this could be her most difficult case yet. 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.
As she listens to his engagement with her team, it’s pretty clear that Burns is managing cases far differently than she would or what her team has come to expect. When the suicide victims are all linked back to the clinic Kim and her team begin to uncover some even darker goings on there.Kim’s first case was of a nineteen-year-old boy, Jamie Mills who was found hanging from a tree in a local park, his death is ruled a suicide. When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene of a house fire, she’s shocked to discover it’s claimed the lives of two teenage children and their parents. Kim is in no doubt that she must take charge of her team and visits Jamie’s parents where she learns that they had sent him to a clinic to ‘cure’ him of his sexuality.
In some respects these are formulaic police procedurals, with similar elements and tropes repeating in each book, but you can’t really blame Marsons for giving her fans what they want. This is another belter of a police procedural, as Kim hits the ground running after taking some time out to recover from her last harrowing case. It is my absolute pleasure to wish a massive happy publication day to Angela Marsons and to take my place on day one of the blog tour for Hidden Scars, the 17th Kim Stone novel. 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. There’s real friendship there, even if Kim is not the first one to show it, and the way this is expressed in the book makes you feel a real part of the team – of the family – as you embark on each new thrilling instalment.For anyone who has read my previous reviews on the other 16 books in this series you'll know just what a huge fan I am, I literally fan girl over Kim stone to anyone who will listen and once again those around me won't hear the end of this new instalment. A chilling figure from Kim’s past is about to reveal a shocking secret that will hit her where it hurts the most. The BIGGEST thanks to netgalley and Bookouture for the ARC and of course to the fantastic Angela Marsons for once again letting me sit with Kim Stone for a couple of hours in peace and solitude! Hidden Scars gives us some time to let our poor fragile hearts recover after book sixteen, and this healing process is also reflected in main character Kim Stone. Scarred from a previous case that nearly took her life, can Kim unearth the dark secrets within the Gardner family and is she strong enough to stop a terrifying killer silencing the clinic’s previous patients one by one?
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