A review by mandylovestoread
Child's Play by Angela Marsons

5.0

A new Detective Kim Stone book is always exciting for me. I know that no matter what it is going to be good. Child's Play is book 11 in this series and it is absolutely as strong as the very first book. I don't know how Angela Marsons manages to keep it so fresh and addictive but she has done it again with this instalment. Here's to a very very long life to this series. As always I struggled to put this book down. It opens with a cracker of a murder scene and doesn't let up until the very end. If you have never picked up a Kim Stone novel and you like police procedural books then you seriously need to start from the beginning and get into this series. I highly recommend all of them!

This time we see and Kim and the team called to a crime scene in a children's playground. A woman in her 60's have been killed and left tied to a swing with barbed wired. We learn that the woman is Belinda Evans, a retired college professor of child physcholgy. There are soon 2 more horrific murders and all the victims have ties to gifted children. Meanwhile, the newest member of the team Penn is called back to his old team as a case he was in charge of goes to court and falls apart. The 2 stories go well together and we watch with anticipation to see how they will both end.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for my advanced copy of this book to read. All opinions are my own and are in no way biased.