My review -
This
is the fourth DI Kim Stone book and the series continues to soar. There’s a
secret ‘body farm’ and Kim is sent there by her superior to learn what happens
to a decaying corpse. While there, they stumble upon a fresh one – newly killed
and not part of the experiment. Things get weirder. Kim becomes involved with
her old adversary, ruthless crime reporter Tracy Frost. They each learn
something about the other (and about themselves) in the course of the book. The
end of the story is heart-racing and exciting and right up to the end I
suspected the wrong person. It’s great to be wrong-footed like that. If it’s
easy to tell who’s the culprit it’s not much of a story – this IS much of a
story!
I
began, in the first of the series, by finding the lead character, Kim, a little
stereotyped in terms of the modern police/detective novel but as the series has
grown, so has the character of DI Stone. As much as you can say this of a
fictional character, I like and respect her. I’m rooting for her when she’s in
trouble; I want Bryant to turn up in the nick of time; I want Stacey to get to
the core of the problem through her brilliant data-mining. I’m on the team,
just cheering. This is a moving and exciting book. You must read it.
Thanks
to Netgalley and the publisher for a review copy of this book.
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