All Portland, Oregon, vintage clothing store owner Joanna Hayworth wants to do is turn her back on the modern world and retreat into a carefully curated life of satin cocktail gowns, icy martinis, and old movies.But when Joanna finds a key in a 1930s Lanvin coat cast off by an ex-showgirl, everything changes. The elderly woman turns up dead, and Joanna is pulled into a long-ago drama of back room deals, blackmail, and lost love. She must find a very real—and present day—killer befo...

The woman is lying on her back, eyes closed, face still. The blood from the single stab wound in her chest has pooled on the ground, interrupted only where her killer stood to watch her die… Detective Kim Stone knows from the moment she looks down on Ashley Reynolds that this is no ordinary crime. No one has a bad word to say about this loving wife and mother. So why did someone murder her, and wait to make sure she was dead?Ashley was a socia...

Three totally heart-stopping crime thrillers from the multi-million selling, Amazon chart-topping, bestselling author Angela Marsons. A detective hiding dark secrets, Detective Kim Stone will stop at nothing to protect the innocent.Play Dead: The dead don’t tell secrets… unless you listen.Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. Isolated far out in the hills of the Black Country, it studies the effects of death on the...

Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood…Years later, a headmistress is found strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders which shock the Black Country. But when human remains are discovered at a former children’s home, disturbing secrets are also unearthed.Detect...

Three absolutely unputdownable crime thrillers from the multi-million selling, Amazon chart-topping, bestselling author Angela Marsons.A Detective hiding dark secrets, Detective Kim Stone will stop at nothing to protect the innocent.Broken Bones: They thought they were safe. They were wrong.The murder of a young prostitute and a baby found abandoned on the same winter night signals the start of a disturbing investiga...

"Three absolutely unputdownable crime thrillers from the multi-million selling, Amazon chart-topping, bestselling author Angela Marsons.A detective hiding dark secrets, Detective Kim Stone will stop at nothing to protect the innocent.Dead Memories: She ruined their lives. Now they’re going to destroy hers. Two teenagers are found chained to a radiator. The boy is dead but the girl is alive. For Detective Ki...

The first three books in the multi-million copy number one bestselling series will have you absolutely hooked. A Detective hiding dark secrets, Detective Kim Stone will stop at nothing to protect the innocent. Silent Scream: Even the darkest secrets can’t stay buried forever… Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact...

Meet Detective Kim Stone. A detective hiding dark secrets. She’ll stop at nothing to protect the innocent. ‘This book has killed me!!!!… There is a smile on my face and goosebumps on my arms. Rarely have I been so satisfied with a novel… First Blood is a masterpiece.’ Chocolate ‘n’ Waffles Blog, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐In the darkness of a cold December morning, Detective Kim Stone steps through the doors of Halesowen Polic...

What lengths would you go to to save a troubled little girl?A Sunday Times bestseller, Terrified is a deeply personal memoir from foster carer Angela Hart.It tells the emotionally devastating but ultimately uplifting true story of Vicky, a little girl who arrives on Angela's doorstep unwanted and unloved after suffering years of emotional abuse at the hands of her mother. Desperate never to return home, Vicky is haunted by many demons and ...

She can still feel the cold stone beneath her, but the light is dimming now, the sound fading. With her last breath, she whispers the name of the woman she hoped would save her: ‘Kim Stone’. Chelsea Taylor’s fall looked like an accident. But hours before she died at the bottom of the unforgiving concrete steps, she came to the police station desperate to talk to Detective Kim Stone.Kim has no idea who this woman was, what she wanted, or why sh...

The victim is lying under the trees, arms lifted above his head, unnaturally still. His muscles are slack. His eyes are empty. There are no signs of life. But he is not quite dead…When Detective Kim Stone races to the crime scene, there is no body waiting for her: the paramedics are desperately trying to save the victim’s life. But there was something very strange about the way the man was found, his arms raised above his head, his legs spread apart. When he dies...

‘Hilarious!’ Griffbuck, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘I absolutely loved it.’ chez405, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘I finished it in one sitting.’ Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Fantastic… I absolutely could not put down.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be? Today started off like every other: tedious letters, refilling the coffee machine, unjamming the printer. But then, jus...