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First, I adore Barney. I appreciate he had a larger role in this book. My boys and I adopted 3 dogs after horrible events likely could have crushed our small family. They have brought us so much joy and love. Barney symbolizes that family, or child, that Kim might never have. Barney gives her what she so desperately needs. Any growth with Kim Stone seems to start with him and branches out to her team at work. So I find it only fitting Barney plays a larger role in the series. Thank you Angela Marsons.

After the ending of Dying Truth is was hard on the team to find its footing. Then, with wounds so fresh, a murder occurs that might be connected to the private school and their secretive cards club. These murders seem to have the team chasing their tails, but not for the lack of clues and physical evidence.

Fatal Promise definitely has a gripping and heart-stopping ending. It is very hard to put the book down, especially when you get to the part that reveals 'who-dunnit'. It makes you pause a moment and replay their role throughout the book. The case that Stace and Penn investigate on the side also has that reveal that leaves you thinking back throughout the book.


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Fatal Promise A totally gripping and heartstopping serial killer thriller Detective Kim Stone Crime Thriller Book 9 edition by Angela Marsons Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews

The story continues with Kim, Bryant and Stacey mourning the death of Kevin Dawson. They get a new member - DS Austin Penn - Stacey is having a difficult time with Penn. He's not Dawson and she finds working with him hard to do.

Stacey and Penn are working a case of a missing 15 year old named Jessie Ryan. She was last seen with her friend, Emma Weston. Stacey believes Emma and her mother are not being honest. Jessie has health issues - will Stacey and Penn find her in time?

Kim and Bryant are looking into the death of Dr. Gordon Cordell. Kim and Bryant are at his flat in Dudley; his bedroom is a mess and they find blood but no body. A mysterious person takes Gordon to the park - he's on his knees and has his throat slashed. This same person is now following Saul - Gordon's son. What will happen to Saul?

I love the back stories of Stacey and her partner, Devin and Penn with his special needs brother, Jasper. You can feel the love they have for each other.

What happens next with Kim and Bryant finding the killer as well as Stacey and Penn trying to locate Jessie is dramatic and vivid.

Kim is a broken woman; her past continues to haunt her. The people on her team are much more than that - they are family. She feels she should have done something to prevent Dawson's death.

This is a story of life, death and choices. Angela has once again written a
5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ riveting and emotional story! Kim and her team search for the truth - whatever that truth is. Thanks, Angela for creating Kim, Bryant, Stacey, Dawson and now Penn. They are people you care about and love!
FATAL PROMISE By Angela Marsons (D.I. KIM STONE BOOK NINE)
MY REVIEW TWO STARS**

I just finished reading the ninth installment of Marsons' Best-Selling series featuring her fictional Detective Kim Stone (FATAL PROMISE).

The PROLOGUE was an exceptionally effective method in garnering my undivided attention and interest. I was stimulated, intrigued, and thought to myself, "This one is going to knock it out of the park!" I should add that I have been a fan of this author since the very beginning of her adventures featuring the intrepid DI Kim Stone.

The story starts at the conclusion of Book 8, never missing a beat, beginning with Kim getting her cast removed. Followers of this popular series will recall that Kim sustained a broken left leg during her exploits in the last case. Kim returns to work following medical leave only to be greeted by the remaining two members of her team, Bryan and Stacey. The tragic loss of their team mate Kevin in the finale of DYING TRUTH is still a fresh wound that feels to all three of them like an emotional trauma that they cannot put behind them.

When this small group of survivors has a new team member thrust unwanted and unwelcome into their midst it is hardly surprising that the "new guy" gets a "welcome wagon" from hell. A homicide case has landed in their collective laps and while Kim and Bryant go in the field to investigate, Stacey is left to deal with the man allotted to their crippled team to assist with the fresh homicide case. It is to be noted that Penn is not a "new face" and in fact had assisted Kim and her team on past occasions. The man had been credited with solving a daunting puzzle effectively saving Stacey's life. This doesn't slow our Tracey down as she proceeds to make him feel unwanted, unappreciated, and a target for sarcasm and sadistic taunts. She even christens him with the nickname "NotKev".

It is less than 25% into the novel that I started down the road to disenchantment instead of the highway to sustained interest and engagement. Stacey has consciously decided to pursue a missing person case that is no longer under her purview, lied to the team member remaining in the squad room, not informing the team where she is going or why. This is by definition going rogue and it is not trivial or justifiable. Lastly, she may be placing herself in danger, but even if that is not the case she is certainly deserting her team and depriving them of her valuable assets in data mining. Referencing Page 103, when Kim is reflecting upon being told that she hasn't been "pushing (her) detective constable enough or encouraging her to develop", what immediately came to my mind was that Stacey needed a disciplinary warning placed in her file and not the opportunity for a promotion.

By 31% into the book Stacey "comes clean" with Kim about her unauthorized investigation. It is interesting to me that Kim embraces her subordinate's clearly inappropriate solitary adventures trying to find the missing teen. This reaction is especially difficult to comprehend when the reader compares Kim's opinions, feelings, and actions toward the other members of her team (Bryant and Penn). It may be appropriate to say at this time that I am reading the novel, but not recognizing Kim Stone.

By the 35% mark (over a third of the way into the book), a subplot involving Stacey and her independent investigation into the missing person case figures prominently in the novel. I did
not enjoy the secondary story line and would prefer that all members of Kim's team remain as fictional characters who populate what I would refer to as the "supporting cast" in Marsons' novels. Perhaps more importantly (than my liking the subplot), it not only subtracted time and action from the intriguing central plot featuring DI Kim Stone, but seriously interfered with the pace and the momentum of the novel.

The author repeatedly vacillated between the murder investigation and the secondary plotline.
Just when the momentum of the main plot is building, I anxiously turn the page, and abruptly there is Stacey stumbling into the frame with what she is doing to try to find the missing girl. These unwelcome updates on the subplot are detrimental to the pacing and the escalating tension that is associated with Kim and Bryan's tracking of who the reader knows is a multiple murderer.

I was so annoyed that I asked myself what purpose the author had for injecting the subplot in the first place. Was it a vehicle for Stacey to breach the gap with Penn (the interloper in their group). This led to the two of them working together to "solve" the puzzle of the motive of the killer and later the actual identity of the murderer. However, 64% into the book the reader is updated on the affair between Stacey and Devon. Surprisingly, we learn that their relationship is in shambles following the catalyst of Kevin's traumatic plunge to his death saving a young boy's life in the previous installment of the series. (I say "surprisingly" because I am unable to believe that a relationship built on solid ground could be fractured by the death of a co-worker. Partners in life and love lean upon one another at such times). In the novel, Stacey finally opens up to her lover, who in turn feels compelled to do a little sharing of her own (best friend and partner stabbed and killed on their first assignment in the field). This interaction is the springboard that propels Stacey into the clean air with a deep inhalation of self-analysis that gives way to emotional awareness.

What's my point? Well, three points, really. First, the author introduces the update involving Stacey's love life, and it effectively sets in motion the partnership that develops between Penn and Stacey. Second, the secondary storyline was without an obvious point, and negatively impacted the pacing of he plot. Third, the moment that the reader was able to glimpse the thrust of the medical records, I had solved Stacey's missing persons case, including the motivation behind why the teenager vanished, why she abruptly dropped off the face of the earth at the time she did, and also the persons who were complicit in the disappearance. I sketched out the facts that were known to the reader at the point I figured it all out to my partner, and she also came out with "Well, it almost has to be...." (and of course she was correct). This epiphany was at the 50% mark in the book.

The reader learns about the "6 W's" early on, and numbers 2 and 5 [WHO is the victim and WHY did it happen, respectively] are frankly ignored by especially Kim, and that is disheartening. We also are educated about interrogation techniques by the police, including the deplorable REID Technique and the PEACE Model with suspects. Kim embraces the REID Technique like it is second nature to her and with a person of interest who is there of his own volition for Heaven's Sake. She is called on it by Bryant, but...

This book in particular has been padded with a lot of forensic science "lessons" I like this sort of thing, love the details---not all readers would, but who knows? I was left to wonder whether that there was a ton of forensic science tossed in because our serial murderer left such a laundry basket full of forensic evidence to incriminate the (father and son who worked at the hospital) or simply because Marsons would like to ratchet up the science a few notches in her DI Kim Stone novels. Pursuant to "Door Number 1"----Why did the murderer set up a person to take the fall? We are talking about hair, fibers, and even footprint forensic evidence. The reader was privy to motivation from the beginning, thus the only misdirection that was possible in the novel was to set the police officers on a specific path to the door of the hapless father and son, both employed at the hospital. The team deployed tunnel vision and dismissed virtually all other aspects of the murder investigation that would lead to an alternative suspect.

Pursuant to this main plot, a few circumstances left me scratching my head. It was explained after the killer was captured that it was not a goal to come out alive. I know that this may have been applicable only at the conclusion. But the triggering events for the killer in this novel are traumatic enough to be believable. The revelations about the killer's guilt and feelings of liability go a long way to explain his evolution into a vengeful murderer. However, my impression from the beginning was that the killer had a specific agenda and that it simply
had no room for the extra machinations of setting someone up for the crimes. That, like so much of this book, did not ring true at all.

Kim is behaving like a "Stone" bitch at this point toward the member of her team who she cares about the most (Bryant). She stops short of beating Barney but I was almost expecting that next. The character of Kim Stone is completely unrecognizable to me. Even when she is being civil to someone or carrying out a mundane task, it doesn't ring true. I don't FEEL Kim Stone in this book.

It is impossible to suspend disbelief in this novel. It is just not believable that the death of Dawson would result in such emotional crippling of Kim Stone (and NO I am not discounting the montage by her long-time psychiatrist which is offered near the conclusion of the novel). Even a devastated Kim should NOT forget everything she ever knew about solving a murder investigation. Kim's blind acceptance of the accumulation of the forensic evidence is perplexing. She focuses all of her attention, anger, and determination on breaking the Mancini's. The father Angelo Mancini did have a motive for the murder of Dr. Cordell, but I thought it was reaching. Giovanni (the son) really has no motive except the protection of his family unit and yet he is implicated in the murders by the forensics as well. It is infuriating, absolutely dumbfounding to me as reader that NO ONE (including Kim) EVER thinks beyond the convenient forensics that are left, tied with a bow.

WHO are the victims? WHY were they murdered? The former is the family members of the two victims that the Mancinis conceivably held a grudge against. WHY would the elder Giovanni or his son slaughter Dr. Cordell and then target his family (his eldest son Saul) ---and even if Kim could stretch it to the nurse that was allegedly complicit in the complaint ---why would either Giovanni murder Nat's elderly mother? If the Mancini's were seeking revenge why not murder Nat, the nurse, period. The family angle makes virtually no sense at all. And why would the Mancinis kill first the geriatric mother and then only afterwards kill Nat? This is multiple murders in response to an allegation of theft before a hearing had taken place. Only Bryan thinks the forensics are just too convenient but even he doesn't appear to be thinking like a homicide detective.

I know that Kim and her team are not trained as criminal profilers but I was exasperated when Kim and the others offered no insight into the stabbings (for instance 62% into the book when Victim #4's body is found "amongst rotten rubbish..." ‘Yes, it’s definitely her,’ Kim said, looking down into the ashen face of Nat Mansell." "...almost thirty stab wounds to her body"..."And seventy percent of those were aimed at the women's stomach". I am not in homicide but wouldn't you think that someone would say "What about childbirth, abortion, a child, etc.?" (because of stabs to the abdomen).

I also want to address the brief references to the character of Joanne Wade from the previous novel DYING TRUTH. The woman died in Kim's arms in the previous book, and there was no obvious follow up on the emotional effects of this event on Kim's life. What we DO have in this book is the declaration by Kim's long time therapist Ted that Kim's "ability to feel and express emotion is as good as it is going to be". Albeit this carefully crafted psychiatric insight is not volunteered with respect to the topic I brought up but rather to satisfy Kim's boss Woody that "What you see is what you get" (and choose whether you want to accept DI Kim Stone with her emotional baggage or not).

I resent the character of Ted explaining to Woody that a human being's ability to feel love and express emotion, caring can be abruptly stopped in its tracks at a critical point in child development. Authorities maintain that if kittens are not socialized with humans at age 3 weeks that it will likely never happen. One of our cats was feral and it took me a full year to get him to trust me enough to touch him. Now he sleeps in the bed every night. I do not believe that there are no exceptions to rules. I wondered if Ted's shared insight into Kim's psyche would stop fans from torturing the author about when is Kim going to find a good guy and settle down. Moreover, was it designed as a way for the writer to avoid the obvious challenge that may have resulted if Joanna Wade had not died in Kim's arms.

In reading this latest novel, it was quite evident to me that the author could genuinely benefit from a proofreader to catch and correct spelling errors and sentence formatting problems. Later I noted incorrect words in play, for instance, Page 168 which used the word "climatical" (referring to the weather) rather than the appropriate word "climactical". Perhaps more importantly, the author needs a fact-checker. Look at Page 272. The author actually refers to an angiogram as "exploratory heart surgery". I was an English major, my first job at age 18 was as a proofreader, and I went into the field of medicine. Perhaps most readers wouldn't have been as perturbed.

I have read all of Angela Marsons' Kim Stone books, and I still consider myself a fan. However, this book was a disappointment on every level. I have already pre-ordered BOOK 10 in the hope that this installment was an anomaly.
First, I adore Barney. I appreciate he had a larger role in this book. My boys and I adopted 3 dogs after horrible events likely could have crushed our small family. They have brought us so much joy and love. Barney symbolizes that family, or child, that Kim might never have. Barney gives her what she so desperately needs. Any growth with Kim Stone seems to start with him and branches out to her team at work. So I find it only fitting Barney plays a larger role in the series. Thank you Angela Marsons.

After the ending of Dying Truth is was hard on the team to find its footing. Then, with wounds so fresh, a murder occurs that might be connected to the private school and their secretive cards club. These murders seem to have the team chasing their tails, but not for the lack of clues and physical evidence.

Fatal Promise definitely has a gripping and heart-stopping ending. It is very hard to put the book down, especially when you get to the part that reveals 'who-dunnit'. It makes you pause a moment and replay their role throughout the book. The case that Stace and Penn investigate on the side also has that reveal that leaves you thinking back throughout the book.