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Child's Play

Detective Kim Stone Crime Thriller, Book 11

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Child's Play

By: Angela Marsons
Narrated by: Jan Cramer
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Finally we’re playing a game. A game that I have chosen. I give one last push of the roundabout and stand back. 'You really should have played with me’, I tell her again although I know she can no longer hear.

Late one summer evening, Detective Kim Stone arrives at Haden Hill Park to the scene of a horrific crime: a woman in her 60s tied to a swing with barbed wire and an X carved into the back of her neck.

The victim, Belinda Evans, was a retired college professor of child psychology. As Kim and her team search her home, they find an overnight bag packed and begin to unravel a complex relationship between Belinda and her sister Veronica.

Then two more bodies are found bearing the same distinctive markings, and Kim knows she is on the hunt for a ritualistic serial killer. Linking the victims, Kim discovers they were involved in annual tournaments for gifted children and were on their way to the next event.

With DS Penn immersed in the murder case of a young man, Kim and her team are already stretched and up against one of the most ruthless killers they’ve ever encountered. The clues lie in investigating every child who attended the tournaments, dating back decades.

Faced with hundreds of potential leads and a bereaved sister who is refusing to talk, can Kim get inside the mind of a killer and stop another murder before it’s too late?

The addictive new crime thriller from multi-million-copy, number-one best seller Angela Marsons explores the dark side of child prodigies and will have you absolutely hooked.

©2019 Angela Marsons (P)2019 Bookouture
Crime Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Murder Game
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This could just about be a stand alone and not one of a series. Well written, so easily listened to. If reading the author's style has you fly through the pages. Good story well researched.

Good read

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not often a novel keeps you so fully engaged to the last word! really clever plot !

Really good!

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Great story line, great dialogue among Kim Stone and her colleagues. The narrator brought Kim Stone to life, very enjoyable. Can't wait for the next installment.

Always a pleasure with Angela Marsons' Kim Stone

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I so enjoy the humour and the banter and the storyline’s and the narration is excellent now to the next ok in the series

Great read great narration

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The narrator makes everyone in this book sound so angry and aggressive all the time. The tone never changes. I enjoy the story but have nearly given up several times because of narration.

Narration terrible

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I am getting so close to not moving onto the next book! The narration as I have said before, the voice is great, clear and precise, but some of the expressions are dreadful, and the way Kim, and others are portrayed with such rudeness I cannot stand anymore.
If the storylines were not as good as they are, I could not go on.
I hope there are not too many more books with this narrator, or if there are, she changes her delivery.

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