Hidden Scars by Angela Marsons

Hidden Scars by Angela Marsons

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. Why were there no photos, details, or lines of enquiry?

When a nineteen-year-old boy, Jamie Mills, is found hanging from a tree in a local park, his death is ruled a suicide. Detective Kim Stone's instincts tell her something isn't right - but it's not her investigation and her temporary replacement is too busy waiting for the next big case to be asking the right questions.

Why would a seemingly healthy boy choose to end his life?

Why does his mother show no sign of emotional distress at the loss of her son?

Still mending her broken mind and body from her last harrowing case, Kim is supposed to be easing back into work gently. But then she finds a crucial, overlooked detail: Jamie had a recent injury that would have made it impossible for him to climb the tree. He must have been murdered.

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. According to his mother, Jamie was introverted and prone to mood swings. Yet his friend speaks of a vibrant, outgoing boy.

The clues to smashing open this disturbing case lie behind the old Victorian walls of the clinic, run by the Gardner family. They claim that patients come of their own accord and are free to leave at any time. But why are those that attended the clinic so afraid to speak of what happens there? And where did the faded restraint marks identified on Jamie's wrists come from?

Then the body of a young woman is found dead by suffocation and Kim makes two chilling discoveries. The victim spent time at the clinic too, and her death was also staged to look like a suicide.

Scarred from an ordeal that nearly took her life, is Kim strong enough to stop a terrifying killer from silencing the clinic's previous patients one by one?

A compulsive page-turner that will have your heart hammering in your chest and leave you absolutely reeling when you discover the explosive final twist. If you're a fan of Karin Slaughter, Val McDermid, and Robert Dugoni, you'll love Hidden Scars.

Can be read as a standalone.

Read what everyone is saying about Hidden Scars:

'WHY DO I DO IT TO MYSELF EVERY TIME Why can't I just be a sensible reader and savour every sentence, why do I have to halt the universe, sit in a quiet room, mute the kids and hubby and devour it in one sitting 'Bookreviewercakemaker, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Oh my gosh every time Marsons puts out a new Kim Stone book, I think there's no way it can be as good as her last and every time it's BETTER I'm freaking obsessed...'firepitandbooks, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Angela Marsons is the USA Today bestselling author of the Detective Kim Stone series, and her books have sold more than four million copies and have been translated into twenty-seven languages. She lives in the Black Country, in the West Midlands of England, with her partner and their two Golden Retrievers. She first discovered her love of writing at junior school when actual lessons came second to watching other people and quietly making up her own stories about them. Her report card invariably read Angela would do well if she minded her own business as well as she minds other people's. After writing women's fiction, Angela turned to crime -- fictionally speaking, of course -- and developed a character that refused to go away.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781803147727
ISBN 10	1803147725
Title	Hidden Scars
Author	Angela Marsons
Series	Detective Kim Stone
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bookouture
Year published	2022-11-09
Number of pages	374
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.