The Queen of crime, Angela Marson has done it again, with Hidden Scars the 17th book in the Kim Stone series. So why not 5 stars if I enjoyed it so much? Well I didn’t really care for the Stacy storyline here. Without going into details for fear of spoilers, I thought the resolution of that story arc was a little silly.

I want Michael Hunter to fall so deeply in love with me that he can’t bear to be more than fifty feet away,” Cher declares to her best friends over cheesecake and wine. But what if she’s searching for happiness in the wrong place?Be warned, the topics covered in this book are dark, scary, and disgusting. Homophobia and conversion therapy are never going to be light topics. However, Marsons handled them very well, with a lot of sensitivity, while still being very forthright. Then Kim uncovers a tiny, vital clue in Helen’s bedroom that throws the investigation wide open. Could someone else have killed the Daynes family? Nineteen-year-old Jamie Mills is found hanging from a tree in a local park and immediately identified as suicide. But Detective Kim Stone’s gut feeling is that there is something not quite right with this case. Her temporary replacement is not giving his full attention to any incidents that are not likely to turn into the high profile case he yearns for.

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. Why, when his mother is told, does she not break down in tears? And how could Jamie have climbed the tree with a recent injury?

Customer reviews

It’s rare that I assign a mystery a full five stars. But this one deserves it. Great pacing, fabulous character development, lots of humor and an ending I did not see coming. On top of this, a local accountant has gone missing without a trace. His wife has reported him missing and Stacy throws herself into finding out more about her disappearance.