Deadly Fate
A totally unputdownable and gripping serial killer thriller
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4.5 • 20 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The woman’s bright blonde hair floats in the breeze. She almost looks like she could be resting on the soft green grass. But her brown eyes stare unblinking up at the sky, and the final cut across her mouth is dark with blood. Her words silenced forever…
Late one evening, as the final church bell rings out, Sandra Deakin’s cold and lifeless body is found in the overgrown graveyard with multiple stab wounds. When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene, the violence of the attack convinces her that this murder was deeply personal. What could have caused such hate?
As the team dig into Sandra’s life, they discover she believed she could communicate with the dead. Was that why she was targeted? The last people to see her alive were a group of women who had a session with her the night before she was killed, and as Kim and her team pay them a visit, they soon learn each of the women is lying about why they wanted Sandra’s help…
Kim realises she must dig deep and open her mind to every avenue if she’s going to stand a chance at solving this case. And when she learns that Sandra was banned from the church grounds and had been receiving death threats too, she’s ever more certain that Sandra’s gifts are at the heart of everything.
But just when she thinks she’s found a lead, the broken body of a nineteen-year-old boy is found outside a call centre – a single slash across his mouth just like Sandra’s. Kim knows they are now racing against time to understand what triggered these attacks, and to stop a twisted killer.
But they might be too late. Just as Kim sits down at a local psychic show she discovers something that makes her blood run cold. Both Sandra and the call centre were named in an article about frauds. And this show stars the next name on the list. She looks around the audience with a feeling of utter dread, certain the killer is among them…
Totally addictive with a final twist that will leave you shouting out loud, you’ll want to inhale Deadly Fate in one sitting. Fans of Karin Slaughter, Val McDermid and Robert Dugoni will love the new crime thriller from the number one multi-million-copy bestselling author Angela Marsons.
Can be read as a standalone.
Read what everyone is saying about the Detective Kim Stone series:
‘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!!!! An absolute MUST READ!!!’ Bookworm86, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘WHY DO I DO IT TO MYSELF EVERY TIME????? Why can’t I just be a sensible reader and savour every sentence, why do I have to halt the universe, sit in a quiet room, mute the kids and hubby and devour it in one sitting???’ Bookreviewercakemaker, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘OMG! OMG! OMG! Angela Marsons what on earth have you done to me?!… I’m completely out of words to describe this. Just OMG! Wow! Speechless!… Utterly amazing.’ Rachel's Random Reads, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘The jack, queen, king and ace of crime fiction… you can’t stop reading it until the fantastic ending… Another mesmerizing and riveting read! I find it insulting to even rate it giving between one to five stars, because how many stars should you give to the sun?’ The World Is Ours to Read, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘OH. MY. GOD!!!!!!… It hits you right in the face from the first page to the last, bang! – cliff-hanger; bang! – twist; BANG!! – ANOTHER jaw-dropping moment… fast, chilling and thrilling… quite simply perfect.' Emma the Little Book Worm, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Customer Reviews
Edge of the seat Thriller
In this, the eighteenth Kim Stone book, Angela Marsons pulls out all the stops and interweaves a number of plots and storylines to create a truly compelling narrative. I read it pretty much in three outings (pre-lunch, post-lunch and post-dinner) and don't regret for one moment the speed at which the book went by.
Kim is having a relaxing night at home, working on her Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle, when the phone rings: "Keats". And she's off to another horrific murder scene.
Someone has killed a local psychic in the most gruesome manner, a crime which sets the team off in multiple directions as they are faced with 'real' psychics, 'fake' psychics and even phone hotline psychics.
Supplementary to the main investigation, there are other tangents that the team are off on: Penn is looking into a John Doe, a seemingly homeless man found deceased in an underpass, and somehow enters the world of extreme gambling; when Stacey finds that one of the initial suspects in the murder has a horrible criminal past, she gets a peak into stalking; and Kim and Bryant find that their investigation of the original murder has become more complex as there are soon other bodies! Someone is murdering psychics - and could it be someone with an ax to grind?
At its heart, this one is about obsessions: gambling, control, stalking, unsolved/unfinished business... and more than one crime ends up being solved in the end.
Apart from the core of Kim's team, characters from previous books make appearances (Eloise and Tiff), and Woody only makes a cameo appearance. but that's okay.
I guarantee you won't want to put this one down until the very last page, and Ms. Marsons has set up what could be an explosive future storyline that will surely affect the entire crew.
Highly recommended, even if you have not read the previous 17(!) books - but you're doing yourself a great favor if you do.