There are many reasons why I love this series but there is always a worry that the next one won't meet expectations.
This is not something I should have even worried about!

Kim Stone has the team she deserves, working to get over past sadnesses but getting there.
Then someone is recreating the events of her life, and its grim.
A real roller coaster, great characters, thrilling story.

Another winner from this fab author. The quality is always there, truly blows me away with each book.
I just can't wait for the next one.
The tenth in the D.I. Kim Stone series, continuing in the same way….brilliant and gripping.
I read at every opportunity, the short chapters were perfect to sneak in when I could and gave a good pace to the book…..another chapter, just one more….
Kim has always been pretty private about her past, even with her team. But here parts of it are laid bare for them to see, to understand the difficult things from her childhood. We get to meet Symes again (from Lost Girls, book three). He is still a disturbed, horrific individual, made even worse now he is festering away in prison. He has a little gang of Kim Stone haters and they get off on the common hatred of her.
The team struggle to get a firm lead in the tangled web of information they have. Who is doing this to Kim and why? They go over old cases to check who would despise her and there is a big list!
Kim’s team of Bryant, Stacey and Penn are close knit, and Penn is still bringing in the cakes.
Kim is as stubborn and headstrong as usual, with some scenes that were pretty scary towards the end.
How the author keeps coming up with these fab books just astonishes me, the content is amazing. It wouldn’t be an Angie Marsons without some brutality and shocking scenes. The descriptions of the couple in the burnt out car gave me shudders!
Thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for the review copy in which I give my honest review.

Have I said that I love this series? I really almost don't know how to review these books anymore. They are all so good and this book was no exception.
I, once again, loved reading about some of my favorite fictional people. Bryant, so loyal and yet willing to push Kim when she needs it. Stacey, loveable and sweet and an absolute whiz at the technical part of police work. Penn, the newcomer as of the last book, but already an integral part of the team.
This book brings up a lot of Kim's past and Kim has a lot to handle. The crimes are horrific and Kim feels the guilt because someone hates her enough to recreate every traumatic experience of her life, even if it means murdering a few people. While the team is solving this case, Alison, a profiler is brought in to observe and help. There are a couple of side stories, enjoyable and in no way interfering with the rest of the novel.
I can't wait for the next book in the series!!

Copy furnished by Net Galley for the price of a review.

A mash-up of deaths turns out to share a common denominator, and the reason behind it all is cruel in the extreme.  Penn, the newbie, is still finding his footing with the team.  He has easily wormed his way into my heart, pure genius with his extraordinary puzzle solving skills.  DI Kim Stone, Bryant, and Stace all feel like old friends at this point.  They read and play off each other very well.  A certain amount of humor is acknowledged as a strategy to cope with the horrors they see too often in this line of work. <spoiler>I got such a kick out of Penn trying in earnest not to put the first and last name of a witness together in his mind - her name was Dobbie.  Debbie Dobbie.  And the hapless individual who was was cubed in the metal compactor at the junkyard and was referred to as "Rubik" until proper identification could be established.</spoiler>
       
Angela Marsons has carved yet another perfect notch into the totem of this excellent series.  Brava!

I love Angela Marsons and the Kim Stone series! Her writing style stays so strong and I'm immediately sucked into each book! I continue to grow to love Kim Stone's character as well.

What would you do if you were called to the scene of a crime, and the sight before you was a traumatic incident from your past? This is what Detective Inspector Kim Stone faces, as she is called to a place that she knows only too well. A young couple is found chained to a radiator, and eerily the same incident occurred,3 floors above to Kim and her brother Mikey. When more bodies start to show up, can Kim put the memories of the horrific past behind her and focus on who and why anyone would want to recreate scenes from her own torturous past. It seems like the killer is leading up to a final victim, and unless DI Stone and her team can figure it, she might be next one.
Dead Memories is the tenth in the Detective Inspector Stone Crime Thriller books. This one hits pretty close to home, as Kim had survived unbearably cruelty as a child. Some series slow down, but Angela Marsons just continues to hit it out of the park! It probably should be read in order, so you get the references to Kim and all the 'bad guys' who make a very long list of people who would wish her harm. Gripping, thrilling suspense and I can't wait to see where she goes next.

A disturbing storyline which delves deep into Kim Stone’s abusive childhood as a killer recreates the most harrowing of her experiences, murdering innocent people in the process. Not for the faint-hearted, there is far more graphic detail in this the tenth of the series than in previous books. I found this a difficult but, as always, fascinating read with the relationships and dynamics of Kim’s team at its beating heart.

Thank you to net galley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read this copy


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 with her brother Mikey, when they lived in the same tower block thirty years ago.

Memories’ by Angela Marsons in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Mark and his girlfriend Amy are found handcuffed to a radiator in a flat on the fourth floor of Chaucer Court. Mark is dead and although Amy is breathing she doesn’t survive despite the hospital’s staff desperately trying to save her. When DI Kim Stone and DS Bryant attend the scene Kim recognises every detail as it’s identical to what happened to herself and her twin brother Mikey many years ago, in the same flat but three floors up. When more bodies are discovered Kim realises that someone is recreating traumatic events from her past and making her relive every horrific event in her childhood and he won’t stop until she’s dead. Can Kim solve the case before she becomes the killer’s final victim?

‘Dead Memories’, tenth in the Detective Stone series, is another amazing thriller with bucket loads of suspense, tension and excitement. I admire the character of Kim who garners respect and loyalty from every member of her team, Bryant, Stacey, Penn and the profiler, Alison, who’s brought in to assist with the case, and reading this novel feels like meeting old friends again. I was totally gripped from the start, through each twist and turn and heart-stopping incident, until the conclusion when Kim’s starting to fit together all the pieces of the jigsaw. Once again Angela Marsons has shown what a brilliant writer she is with her ability to bring together excitement and intrigue into each novel and I’m constantly surprised that the series hasn’t yet been grabbed to be televised.

To know pure bliss, as a suspense/thriller lover, you should be holding a copy of a Kim Stone series book in your hand!
Dead Memories is the 10th installment of the Kim Stone series and as with all her books, Angela Marsons manages to set the bar even higher with this one (if that were even possible because now the bar is so high I don't know where it is).
In this book, someone from Kim's ever dark past keeps recreating traumatic events in her life. Every abuse, every heartbreak, every agony that Kim went through as a child is now being raked up and put on display for everyone to see.
This book was exciting to me in so many ways than one. We see quite a few of older book characters making an appearance here. We also see how the team slowly come to terms with the loss of a team member a few months back. Very touching and poignant apart from the blood-rush thrilling scenes that keep you wanting more.
Thanks to NetGalley, Bookouture and Angela Marsons for an arc.

Detective Kim Stone’s past has finally caught up with her, as a deranged killer is replicating the harrowing events of her life.
A young couple have been found in a house in the same building as Kim’s childhood home, chained to the radiator. The boy is dead, the girl barely alive. The scene is too familiar and painful. This heinous crime is the exact copy of what happened to Kim and her brother when they were children. Is this a coincidence? Or someone is out there to make Kim suffer?
At first Kim is adamant to ignore the similarities and understandably keep her painful past from coming to the surface for everyone, including her team, to see.
But when another couple’s burned bodies are found in a car, just like what happened to her foster parents, whom she loved dearly, she accepts that there is someone out there who hates her excessively and will do anything to make her suffer, both emotionally and physically.

This was yet another intriguing and suspenseful read from one of my favorite authors. Angela Marsons sure is an expert in stirring emotions.

Thanks to Angela Marsons, Bookouture and the NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy.

Kim Stone #10 and another solid mystery from Marsons. Someone is recreating horrific scenes from Stone's tragic past and the suspects are many, as in almost everyone from Books 1-9. Even more troubling is that the villain seems to have confidential information about those scenes that was never made public. Kim and her team work a solid police procedural trying to narrow the list before she becomes the final victim.

I have enjoyed all the DI Kim Stone series - I live in the Black Country and particularly like the references to local places and landmarks. This started me on the series but I now enjoy the characters of the team particularly Kim and Bryant.

This book I found hard to read as it relived the trauma of Kim’s early life in the most graphic of ways. One of the criminals she has put away is recreating her past traumas to cause her grief again reducing her capacity to solve the crimes.

This was a very complex but completely absorbing book to read - I certainly did not foresee the perpetrator.

My reviews of this series are in danger of getting repetitive but Detective Stone and her team have delivered another gripping crime thriller. This is such a good series and each outing shows no sign of losing the pace and momentum, quite the opposite in fact. One point I would make is that the story references a lot of the teams previous cases and it can get a bit confusing if you haven't read the whole series.

Dead Memories is the tenth book in the Kim Stone series and this one is the best so far.

DI Kim Stone likes to keep her life private, but when innocent people are being murdered based on traumatic events from her life, she is forced to let her team know about her past. Kim and her team are in a race against time to discover who hates her enough to carry out these crimes. With plenty of suspects, can they determine who is out to get her?

A great book from Angela Marsons, in this one we get to see more of Kim’s past and what makes her tick. A gritty read with plenty of twists and turns which keeps you guessing until the end. Another excellent book in this series, I am looking forward to the next one.

Absolutely delivered once again.
You'll be hard pressed to find a better writer in the Police Procedural genre than Angela Marsons these days.
Another absolute cracker with a plot that is difficult to put down, together with even more insight into the hugely likable (despite her best efforts!) Kim Stone's back story.
I knew I'd enjoy it. Loved it. Many thanks.

Once again Kim Stone is back in book 10 of this excellent series by Angela Marsons.Kim and her team are thrown into a case when she finds a couple tied to a radiator with one dead and the other close to death,at first Kim refuses to acknowledge that the events mirror her own tragic life from thirty years ago but when a second murder occurs she is forced to admit that someone is in fact killing people just to get back at her.But who from her past would stoop to that level ? and she is forced to revisit her past when all she wants to do is forget it.Again Angela Marsons has excelled in this superb book and as with all the other books in the series she has you guessing whodunnit through out the book..Another 5 star read,what else do you expect from Angela Marsons ? Superb.

This series just keeps getting better and better and this is a roller-coaster of a read which I devoured.

Detective Kim Stone is about to be thrown into her worst nightmare of a case. Someone is recreating every traumatic thing that’s happened to her in the past.

The case kicks off with two teenagers chained to a radiator. The boy is dead but the girl is alive. This gruesome case mirrors what happened to Kim and her brother and that’s not all, a middle age couple are found in a burnt out car which is similar to what happened to her foster parents.

Kim is wracking her brains trying to think who would hate her so much and it takes her to the local prison and those who she locked away who bear huge grudges against her. The boss calls in profiler, Alison to work on the case. The don’t really see eye to eye so the road is rocky.

The Team are hard at work trying to discovery who or whom are behind these senseless murders and the race is on to stop them before it’s too late.

I loved it and didn’t for one minute guess who was behind the murders. Absolutely brilliant.

Another brilliantly written, breakneck paced instalment in this hugely successful series. Kim and her team are again faced with a complex case that has a personal connection,

WELL worth waiting for, Detective Kim Stone is back for the 10th time, if you haven't read any of these, what are you waiting for, Angela Marsons is one of the very best for crime fiction.