marsetta 's review for:

Play Dead by Angela Marsons
4.0

The dead don’t tell secrets… unless you listen.

The girl’s smashed-in face stared unseeing up to the blue sky, soil spilling out of her mouth. A hundred flies hovered above the bloodied mess.

Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. A ‘body farm’ investigating human decomposition, its inhabitants are corpses in various states of decay. But when Detective Kim Stone and her team discover the fresh body of a young woman, it seems a killer has discovered the perfect cover to bury their crime.

Then a second girl is attacked and left for dead, her body drugged and mouth filled with soil. It’s clear to Stone and the team that a serial killer is at work – but just how many bodies will they uncover? And who is next?

As local reporter, Tracy Frost, disappears, the stakes are raised. The past seems to hold the key to the killer’s secrets – but can Kim uncover the truth before a twisted, damaged mind claims another victim …?

This is book 4 in the series. What I like about this series of books is Kim Stone, yes, she has her issues, but they're not brought up every other page. She just gets on with the job.

Once again, Marsons has written a great story, there's lot of twists and turns in this book that keep you turning the page. This story is based around a body farm where people donate their bodies for research (can't imagine it myself) so, it makes for a different back drop that a lot of the books out there at the moment. The build up of tension was great, and the fast moving plot really made it a page turner.

Follow me at https://crimeandmysterybookreview.wordpress.com/