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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. Stacey is ready to request a transfer off the team as she can’t work with him, as he disrespects her and treats her as a second-class citizen.
As Kim and her team begin to unravel a dark web of secrets, one of the teachers could hold the key to the truth. Faced with a killer who is recreating traumatic events from her past, Kim must face the brutal truth that someone wants to hurt her in the worst way possible. And this time, Alex is determined to hit where it hurts most, bringing Kim face-to-face with the woman responsible for the death of Kim’s little brother – her own mother. She has told the psychologists what they want to hear but is she really ready to get back into the saddle? But when they visit the center the owners are not forthcoming with their answers and any patients there were given NDO agreements so not to discuss what went on there.
But then the broken body of a young boy is discovered at the same school and it’s clear to Detective Kim Stone that these deaths are not tragic accidents.
When a local drug addict is found murdered with an identical wound, Kim knows instinctively that she is dealing with the same killer. As she listens to his engagement with her team, it’s pretty clear that Burns is managing cases far differently than she would or what her team has come to expect. The clues to smashing open this disturbing case lie behind the old Victorian walls of the clinic, run by the Gardner family. 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.
She reveals a certain vulnerability that we have not seen before and which takes a bit of getting used to. The Queen of crime, Angela Marson has done it again, with Hidden Scars the 17th book in the Kim Stone series.
This book really does pick up after the events in the last book and I believe to fully enjoy this book, one really needs more background information, and I would recommend going back and at least reading that book before this one (you could even go back to the beginning! During her absence, the team was being destroyed by DI Burns, an ambitious person only on the path that will lead to promotion. When the body of a young woman is found dead by suffocation, Kim discovers that she attended the clinic and her death was also staged to look like a suicide. With every rave and every pan, with every excited GIF and every critical assessment, you've helped the Goodreads community get closer to a very important milestone – the 50 Million Reviews mark! But her brown eyes stare unblinking up at the sky, and the final cut across her mouth is dark with blood.
However when some suicides are reported and appear suspicious, Kim finds herself drawn back in again and into the murky world of a “conversion clinic” that helps people cure themselves of gayness(I kid you not and they do exist in real life unbelievably). The loathsome DI Ian Burns has been heading the unit in her absence and has made a hash of everything he touched. It’ll have your brain go into overload mode with thinky-thoughts long after you’ve finished the book.
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