Years later, a headmistress is found brutally strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders which shock the Black Country.

All of that to say, it’s a rocky beginning for the team when this book begins but soon enough you’re thrust straight into the action per usual.This book starts with what looks like a suicide,Jamie Mills hanging from a tree,When Detective Kim Stone investigates she discovers no way he could of killed himself. Kim knows they are now racing against time to understand what triggered these attacks, and to stop a twisted killer. When I say intentional, I mean it was done so to educate the reader in a more "natural" way through the characters learning about it.

A quick tour of the facility finds nothing untoward but they have been kept away from the treatment areas where the real damage occurs.In some respects these are formulaic police procedurals, with similar elements and tropes repeating in each book, but you can’t really blame Marsons for giving her fans what they want.

They are only taking cases where there could be publicity and headlines that could advance the career of Burns.I would like to thank both Netgalley and Bookouture for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.