I'm delighted to be joining in with the cover reveal for Broken Bones by Angela Marsons, this is book 7 in the D.I. Kim Stone Series.
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So now we have all seen the cover let's take a look at the description for the book. That's not all though we have a sneak peak at the prologue, yay!
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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
investigation for Detective Kim Stone – one which brings her
face to face with someone from her own horrific childhood.
As three 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 vulnerabwle.
At the same time, the search begins for the
desperate woman who left her newborn baby at the station – but what looks like
a tragic abandonment turns even more sinister when a case of modern slavery is
uncovered.
The two investigations bring the team into a
terrifying world of human exploitation and cruelty – and a showdown that puts
Kim’s life at risk as shocking secrets from her own past come to light.
A gripping new crime thriller from the Number
One bestseller – you will be hooked until the final jaw-dropping twist.
PROLOGUE
Black Country
Christmas Day
Elaine Goddard
sat on the roof of the thirteen storey block of flats. The winter sun shone a grid on to her bare
feet dangling over the edge.
The
protective grate had been erected some years ago after a father of seven had
thrown himself over.
By the time
she was eleven she had stolen a pair of wire cutters and fashioned herself an
access point to the narrow ledge that was her place of reflection.
From this
vantage point she could look to the beauty of the Clent Hills in the distance,
block out the dank, grubby reality of below.
Hollytree
was the place you were sent if Hell was having a spring clean.
Problem
families from the entire West Midlands were evicted from other estates and
placed in Hollytree. It was displacement
capital. Communities around the borough breathed
sighs of relief as families were evicted.
No-one cared where they went. It
was enough that they were gone and one more ingredient was added to the melting
pot.
There was a
clear perimeter around the estate over which the police rarely crossed. It was a place where the rapists, child
molesters, thieves and ASBO families were put together in one major arena. And then guarded by police from the outside.
But today a
peace settled around the estate giving the illusion that the normal activities
of robbing, raping and molesting were on pause because it was Christmas
Day. That was bollocks. It was all still going on but to the backdrop
of the Queens speech.
Her mother
was still slurring her way around the cheerless flat with a bottle of Gin in
her hand.
But at
least Elaine had this. Her one piece of
heaven. Always her safe place. Her escape.
She had
disappeared unnoticed up here when she was seven years old and her mother had
been falling all over the flat pissed as a fart.
How lucky
was she to have been the only one of the four kids her mother had been allowed
to keep?
She had
escaped up here when her mother’s drinking partner, Roddy, had started pawing
at her groin and slobbering into her hair.
Her mother had pulled him off, angrily, shouting something about ruining
her retirement plan. She hadn’t
understood it when she was nine years old but she had come to understand it
now.
She had
cried up here on her sixteenth birthday when her mother had introduced her to
the family business and to their pimp, Kai Lord.
She’d been
up here two months earlier when he
had finally found her.
And she’d
been up here when she’d told him to fuck right off.
She didn’t
want to be saved. It was too late.
Sixteen
years of age and already it was too damn late.
Many times
she had fantasised about how it would feel to lurch forward onto the wind. She had envisioned herself floating to and
fro gently making the journey like a stray pigeon feather all the way to the
ground. Had imagined the feeling of
weightlessness of both her body and her mind.
Elaine took
a deep breath and exhaled.
In just a
few minutes it would be time to go to work.
Heavy rain, sleet, snow, Christmas – nothing kept the punters away. Trade might be slow but it would still be
there. It always was.
She didn’t
hear the roof door open or the footsteps that slowly strode towards her.
She didn’t
see the hand that pushed her forward.
She only
saw the ground as it hurtled towards her.
About the author
Angela Marsons is the
author of the Amazon Bestselling DI Kim Stone series - Silent Scream, Evil
Games, Lost Girls, Play Dead, Blood Lines, Dead Souls and now Broken Bones. Her
books have sold more than 2 million in 2 years.
She lives in the Black Country with her partner, their cheeky Golden Retriever and a swearing parrot.
She first discovered her love of writing at Junior School when actual lessons came second to watching other people and quietly making up her own stories about them. Her report card invariably read "Angela would do well if she minded her own business as well as she minds other people's".
She lives in the Black Country with her partner, their cheeky Golden Retriever and a swearing parrot.
She first discovered her love of writing at Junior School when actual lessons came second to watching other people and quietly making up her own stories about them. Her report card invariably read "Angela would do well if she minded her own business as well as she minds other people's".
After years of writing relationship
based stories (The Forgotten Woman and Dear Mother) Angela turned to Crime,
fictionally speaking of course, and developed a character that refused to go
away.
She is signed to Bookouture.com for a total of 16 books in the Kim Stone series and her books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
Her last two books - Blood Lines and Dead Souls - reached the #1 spot on Amazon on pre-orders alone.
She is signed to Bookouture.com for a total of 16 books in the Kim Stone series and her books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
Her last two books - Blood Lines and Dead Souls - reached the #1 spot on Amazon on pre-orders alone.
Author Links
@WriteAngie https://twitter.com/WriteAngie
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