Another apparent suicide is found to be murder and they learn that both of the young victims has been patients at the Change - a facility that promises to cure people of being gay. In her last investigation, Kim came very close to death and has been absent from work for two months.

Beneath the retreat’s cosy façade, Kim and her team uncover a sinister community preying on the emotionally vulnerable. Kim is close to revealing the truth behind the murders, yet soon finds one of her own is in jeopardy – and the clock is ticking. Kim is haunted but resilient, especially when the future of her team is threatened by the incompetence of the DI supposedly holding it all together in her absence. Desperate to catch the killer, Kim finds a link between the recent murders and an initiation prank that happened at the school decades earlier. Conversion Therapy, what a sad and strange world we live in to know that some people actually believe that you can, as Kim said, 'un gay' someone.As the body count starts to mount, Kim will have to dig deeper than ever before to stop the killing. Her team are being nominally led by the clueless and lazy but glory-seeking DI Burns, who is only interested in cases which will advance his career. 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. I was so glad that the team has got back together and like the banter between the team and that slowly Kim is getting back to her old self again.

I think long-time readers of this series had a nice chuckle at that, since that isn’t at all how Kim rolls. When nine-year-old best friends Charlie and Amy disappear, two families are plunged into a living nightmare. As more sex workers are murdered in quick succession, each death more violent than the last, Kim and her team realise that the initial killing was no one-off frenzied attack, but a twisted serial killer preying on the vulnerable. While Jamie’s cold, lifeless body lay in the morgue, Detective Kim Stone stared at the empty board in the incident room and felt her anger boil. Kim should be easing back into work gently after a harrowing case left her body and mind broken, but quickly taking charge of her team, Kim is shocked to learn that Jamie’s parents had sent him to a clinic to ‘cure’ him of his sexuality.Although Kim's social skills are lacking, her heart is in the right place, and her detective skills outstanding . We will post your book review within a day or so as long as it meets our guidelines and terms and conditions. When Kim and her team start investigating they soon prove that Jamie could not have hung himself and soon there are other suspicious deaths.

But while Kim is immersed in one of the most complicated investigations she’s ever led, her team are caught up in a spate of sickening hate crimes.

I adore the relationship between Kim and Bryant and more so in this story as for once there was real vulnerability shown between them, their own guilt and hurt over the past case really affected them both so it needed to be dealt with, in the way those two deal with things anyway! 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. Not their nose, or their boobs, or their bums … no, these people would very much pleaseandthankyou (or are sometimes forced to) change their sexuality because life is so much easier when you’re a heterosexual.

But what it doesn’t do is change her tenacity and whilst the team, Bryant especially, may have to work extra hard to keep in step with Kim, you know that eventually, physical and mental impairments aside, Kim is going to come good. Whether you're looking for some textbooks for university, the latest biography or a travel guide - you'll find what you need in our categories. 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.

Dogged and determined she often bears the brunt of the desk work due to her ability to pick up on clues in background information that the others tend to miss. In the darkness of a cold December morning, Detective Kim Stone steps through the doors of Halesowen Police Station. With thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for my digital ARC to read in exchange for an honest review. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. A ‘body farm’ investigating human decomposition, its inhabitants are corpses in various states of decay.