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

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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. Stacey (a competent detective) has been made useless due to the temporary leader's blatant misogyny. Kim and Bryant’s work relationship really comes to the fore this time around, and it’s beautiful to witness, the storyline was distressing yet current. 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.

A quick tour of the facility finds nothing untoward but they have been kept away from the treatment areas where the real damage occurs. And when Kim hits upon a shocking secret that changes everything she thought she knew about Helen, she realises that the remaining family members are in grave danger. It’s worth more than the Audible credit I give up to let Jan Cramer tell me the story in her most talented way.

Desperate to catch the killer, Kim finds a link between the recent murders and an initiation prank that happened at the school decades earlier. 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. The final chapter answered the long awaited question of Bryant’s name and I loved that it ended on a lighter note. In the people who make their presence felt in Kim’s life, sometimes in poignant ways, other times in humorous ones. Meanwhile, Stacey is trying to find a missing accountant, but feels it may just be a case of him leaving his wife.

She has PTSD from her near-death experience at the hand of her nemesis, and she hasn’t been good about letting people in--which is not a surprise.

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. Sending one of her own undercover into Unity Farm is high risk but it’s Kim’s only hope if she is to catch a killer – someone Kim is convinced the victims knew and trusted. All of that to say, it’s a rocky beginning for the team when this book begins but soon enough you’re thrust straight into the action per usual. In the darkness of a cold December morning, Detective Kim Stone steps through the doors of Halesowen Police Station.

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