Deborah is thirteen, entering secondary school in the big city, boarding with an aunt she hardly knows who wears two-piece suits and brogues. It's the middle of the seventies and even in far flung New Zealand, sex and porn have arrived. In Deborah's classroom, on the stage of Hair, in films, on the telly. The schoolgirls are curious and uninformed. Ask Aunt Dorothy for guidance? A ridiculous idea. Yet it seems her aunt is more knowledgeable than Deborah had realised. A tale of women, often...

Early 1975. Maddalena Strozzi has just started her first job as reporter for the Dunedin Chronicle. The chief reporter, in between gawping at her cleavage, sends her off to report on garden shed fires and the local tennis club matchdays. Thanks to some luck, her staunchly supportive friends and fellow journalists, Maddi slowly gets a few more interesting tasks such as visiting a "sun club", interviewing touring politicians and the director of the hit musical Hair. Behind the glitz though, ...

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...

She ruined their lives. Now they’re going to destroy hers. ‘Someone is recreating every traumatic point in your life. They are doing this to make you suffer, to make you hurt and the only possible end game can be death. Your death.’On the fourth floor of Chaucer House, two teenagers are found chained to a radiator. The boy is dead but the girl is alive. For Detective Kim Stone every detail of the scene mirrors her own terrifying experience wit...

‘OMG!!! SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO US ANGELA!!!! JUST WOW!!!! Seriously love, love LOVED this book!!!!..I was on the edge of my seat, biting my nails whilst feeling my heart pounding into the silly hours of the morning...one of the best books I have ever read!!!’ Bookworm86, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Her stomach lurches as she sits in the windowless room. He throws her phone to the ground, grinds it against the floor with the heel of his sh...

It’s a typical teenage bedroom with posters covering the walls and clothes littering the floor. But the girl lying on her bed, wearing a delicate chain around her neck, is lifeless. A circle of red stains her white vest top. How had the girl’s mother looked down at her sleeping child and pulled the trigger? When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene of a house fire, she’s shocked to discover it’s claimed the lives of two teenage children ...

It had seemed so simple. Get in, get the information, get out. But now they were getting inside her mind and she didn’t know how to stop them…When Detective Kim Stone is called to the home of Samantha Brown, she finds the young woman lying in bed with her throat cut and a knife in her hand. With no sign of forced entry or struggle, Kim rules her death a tragic suicide.But a visit to Samantha’s parents ring alarm bells for Kim – there’s something they...

You have to stop me from hurting anyone else. I don’t want to do these horrible things. Help me before I’m forced to do it again. And I will do it again because I have no choice. I’ve never had a choice. In a busy shopping centre, a little girl clutches a teddy bear, clinging to it in the absence of her mother, Katrina. Hours later, Katrina’s body is discovered in an abandoned building. For Detective Kim Stone, it looks like a quick, functional kill. B...

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...

She lies on the floor, her blue eyes wide and unseeing, arms outstretched as if begging for help. Kneeling next to her, wearing a sequinned purple ballgown and holding a knife in shaking hands, is her daughter… In a quiet kitchen, where two mugs wait by the kettle to be filled, Sheryl Hawne lies in a pool of blood. Her only daughter, Katie, is found at her side, still clutching the murder weapon and apparently incapable of speech. To Detective Kim Stone, t...

Kim clutches the note tightly as her pulse starts to race. You have 36 hours. If you follow the instructions, no one will get hurt… When Detective Kim Stone is woken before dawn because local journalist Tracy Frost wants to show her a message, she’s not impressed. But her blood turns cold when she reads the note. She has 36 hours to follow a trail set by an anonymous challenger. If she fails, people will die.Kim’s gut tells her this is ...

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...