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Title: Deadly CryAuthor: Angela MarsonsFormat reviewed: EbookSource: NetgalleyPublisher: BookouturePublication Date: 13th November 2020Rating: 5 Stars
You have to stop me from hurting anyone else. I don’t want to do these horrible things. Help me before I’m forced to do it again. And I will do it again because I have no choice. I’ve never had a choice.
In a busy shopping centre, a little girl clutches a teddy bear, clinging to it in the absence of her mother, Katrina. Hours later, Katrina’s body is discovered in an abandoned building. For Detective Kim Stone, it looks like a quick, functional kill. But Kim’s instincts tell her there’s more to this senseless murder than meets the eye. What was the motive for killing a young mother out shopping with her child?
Days later, a second victim is found in a local park, her neck broken just like Katrina’s and her six-year-old son missing.
With her colleague, Detective Stacey Wood, working on another unsolved crime and a member of the team grieving the loss of a close relative, Kim is struggling to make inroads on what is fast becoming a complex case. And when a handwritten letter from the killer lands on Kim’s desk addressed to her, and pleading for help, she knows time is running out to bring the little boy home alive.
With the support of a handwriting analyst and profiler, Kim and the team begin to get inside the mind of the killer and make a shocking discovery.
Some of the victims have scratch marks on their wrists.
But these are no random scratches. The killer is using them to communicate with someone. The question is… with whom?
And if Kim doesn’t find them soon, another innocent soul will die.
How on earth does Angela Marsons do this time and time again, and leave me open mouthed in amazement at such a wonderful book. It was addictive, thrilling and had me stumped. I only managed to connect one set of dots correctly, everything else I was understanding as the police were working it out.
And wow I have such respect for Kim Stone and her team for continually doing their best despite so little evidence, very little to go on at all, and a killer who seems to be speeding up.
But also possibly a killer with a conscious, that almost wants to be stopped, which is rather baffling as by the end I almost had some sympathy for the person trying to connect with Kim Stone.
And Kim is well her normal self, we see small insights into not only her life and her next project, but also we get a few scenes from Penn's home life and I'm starting to get a much better feel for Penn as a character. And Stacey is amazing as well, her data searches and instincts are rather impressive.
This really is a race against time featuring a murder and a missing child, as well as many other interesting threads, which are weaved together into this fabulous story.
It's another wonderful book for this series, and even features a returning familiar face that I was unsure we would ever see again... and more run ins between Kim and Tracy Frost the reporter too!
All I can really say is bring on Book 14... I really don't want to wait for more, but feel I will have to.
Thank you to Bookouture and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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