Play Dead By Angela Marsons

Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. It is a body farm doing research into human decomposition with human corpses in various stages of decay lying around in the open fields.

Detective Kim Stone and her team have been sent to Westerley for a visit to look into the possibility of the research facility assisting them in solving cold cases. When they are being shown around, they discover the body of a girl with her face smashed in and with soil spilling out of her mouth. And this newly found corpse is not on Westerley’s corpse inventory. It seems that a killer has discovered the perfect place to dispose of his victims.

Then a second girl is attacked and left for dead at Westerley, her body drugged and mouth filled with soil like the first victim. Stone and her team knows it is the work of a serial killer. They face the grim questions of how many bodies will they uncover and who will be the next victim.

When local reporter Tracy Frost disappears, the stakes are raised. It is clear that the past holds the key to the identity of the killer. Detective Kim and her team race against time to try to uncover the truth before Tracy becomes the next victim.

Play Dead by Angela Marsons is the fourth book in the Kim Stone crime series.  It is a fast-paced, tense and spine-tingling read. It has me hooked!