Wow! This author raises the bar with every book! This book is perfection, a masterpiece and I don't know what I could write here that would do the book justice. So all I would like to say is, if you haven't read this author, what are you waiting for? Her books are not only top notch crime novels, every one brilliant and unputdownable, pacy and thrilling, but they are also a social commentary on the issues facing Britain today. She writes with heart and shows the shades of grey in every person, even hardened killers. I've just spent the last few days ENGROSSED in this amazing book. Her books not only give hours of reading pleasure but they make us CARE and make us want to try and change the world in our own small ways. This author is one of the best and most versatile writers out there and I cannot wait for more from her. Highly recommended. Five stars are not enough for this fantastic book.

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publishers for this review copy. This is the 7th book in the DI Kim Stone series. If you haven’t read the others…..where have you been?!!!!

DI Kim Stone and her team are thrown into an investigation when a young prostitute is murdered. On the same night, a baby is left in the car park of the police station. The body count starts to increase when more prostitutes are found murdered with each one being more violent than the next, and it looking more likely that there is a serial killer on the loose. As well as having to try and find the killer, Kim also has to work out who abandoned the baby. What starts off looking like an abandonment of a mother who can’t cope, begins to turn into an investigation into modern day slavery.

DI Kim Stone is back!! Despite having a ‘To Be Read’ list as long as my arm, I put aside everything to start this one as soon as I got it! The story begins with a heart-thumping prologue of a young girl being pushed to her death from the top of a tower block and the action certainly doesn’t stop there. It carries on fast and furious with Kim and her team working furiously to try and put all the pieces together. I love Kim Stone’s character. She’s strong and gutsy, yet has a hidden sensitive side which we see a lot of in this book. Her team are also all back, and it makes you feel like you’re being enveloped into a big group hug of people that you know so well. Her team all work so well together and Kim obviously still retains the highest respect from them that she has held all throughout the previous books.

The book is fast paced with what seems like two separate stories running alongside each other. The suspense builds up so fast and I couldn’t wait to get to the end for everything to be revealed. I’ve said it in every review of this series so far but I love the fact that it is set locally for me, and I can relate the places that are mentioned in this book! Particularly excited with this one when Brierley Hill Street was mentioned, as I work there!!!

An excellent read, as usual and this was definitely my favourite book of the series so far! Roll on book 8!

At this point, after reading and enjoying all seven books in this series, i don't think Angela Marsons can write a book i won't love. It was a brilliant and well written story with the characters i am deeply invested in continuing on their professional and personal journeys. I can't wait for the next one.

Amazingly, this is the seventh title featuring D.I. Kim Stone, and her team, and this series just gets better and better. The more I read about Kim, Bryant, Dawson, Stacey and the other characters, the more I like them. This novel starts in the Black Country on Christmas Day, but you can forget goodwill to all men, or, indeed, young girls. This novel deals with some very contemporary, and hard hitting themes, including modern day slavery, illegal immigration, the manipulation of young girls into sex workers and gangs.

Christmas Day for Kim involves the discovery of an abandoned baby outside the police station and the body of a young prostitute. As Dawson and Stacey try to discover who abandoned their baby on a cold, winter’s night, Kim and Bryant have to break the news to a mother that her young daughter was a sex worker. This is a hard hitting novel, which deals with uncomfortable truths about the use of debt, and threats,to force young women into working for unscrupulous people, while Dawson and Stacey’s investigation leads them into uncovering the reality for many migrant workers.

Without doubt this is one of the best crime series around at the moment. Angela Marsons has created a fantastic lead character in the strong, yet vulnerable, Kim Stone, and in the people that surround her. I look forward to reading many more in the series. I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via NetGalley, for review.

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Bookouture for the advance copy of Broken Bones in exchange for an honest review. In this book we see vulnerable teenagers being preyed on and groomed for the sex trade and an abandoned baby has been left at the police station and the team must try to find its mother while Kim Stone tries to solve the murder of a young prostitute. When 3 more prostitutes are murdered the hunt is on for a serial killer!!! I have read and loved all of Angela Marson's books to date and in my opinion this is Kim Stone at her very best What I also enjoyed was the banter between Kim and her team and laughed along with them a number of times and it helped the book no to be too heavy given the dark subject matter of the storyline. This is my favourite book in the series and as with all of Angela Marsons book it's getting another 5 stars from me !!!!

This is the 7th book in the series and unfortunately my first book by this Author. Nonetheless this book (2 cases) kept me firmly on the couch reading. Not knowing the characters or their previous relationships did not matter. A thoroughly enjoyable mystery book. Thank you NetGalley, Bookoutre and the Author for allowing me to read and review this book.

Book 7 wow fantastic read, I have missed Kim stone! Finished in one sitting couldn’t put it down. Brilliant can’t wait to see what other adventures happen in the next one!

A compelling read, following the activities of Inspector Kim Stone and her team. Two interesting cases run in parallel; one involving deaths of prostitutes, the other an abandoned baby.
As all the books in the series, this tells very plausible stories, with enough personal detail about the members of the investigating team to make them interesting (and to want to find out what happens to them on a personal level in the next book).
An enjoyable, plausible and informative read at the same time and sufficiently dramatic to keep the reader's interest right to the end.

As expected, another stellar read from Angela Marsons. The team are again drawn into a complicated, twisted case with almost too many threads and suspects but Marsons tight plotline and fast pace keep the reader both engaged and guessing.

I love the Kim Stone series and Angela Marsons is one of my favourite authors so I was super excited to read this. Did not disappoint!

Stunningly good are the words that spring to mind after finishing the book. It's dark, it's twisted and I couldn't put it down. I loved it. It was great to see Kim and the gang back, it was like seeing old friends again.

Everything about this book was great, the writing style, the plot, the characters. There was nothing in this book that I thought was a little "meh".

So when is the next one out? I'm ready!

A seriously good book that is best read in order but can also be read as a stand alone. If you haven't read this series I highly recommend that you do they are all brilliant.

I would like to give this book 6 stars but I can't so 5 it is. Definitely in my top 3 of 2017.

Oh my word, she's done it again!!!  Broken Bones is the 7th Installment of the DI Kim Stone series by Angela Marsons - and all I can say is that they just keep getting better and better!!

Two cases - a murdered prostitute and an abandoned baby - both cases take the team on a gripping whirlwind with an ending you will not see coming!! (That's all I'm going to say about the plot as I can't stand reviews that tell you the full story!!!!)

I read this book in two sittings and I couldn't put it down!!  I was on the edge of my seat reading this book, I loved how each chapter took you in a different direction to the last and often ended in a cliff hanger that made you want to continue to find out what happened next!!

I absolutely love Angela's books!  Her characters and the world she creates is so realistic and entertaining that it almost makes you want to quit your job and join the team - I mean who wouldn't want to work with Kim, Bryant, Stacey & Dawson??  Not only does she tell such wonderful stories in each book, but the detailed background to each character is well thought out and just adds layers to each book!

People always write in reviews that the Author is "the next [insert top ten bestseller]" and I'm not going to insult Angela and say that.  She is Angela Marsons and she is amazing so get reading!!

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Bookouture for the ARC - I'm so happy to have received it after all my begging on twitter lol!!

I was so happy to get an advanced copy of this! I love Kim Stone, Broken Bones is 7th in her series and it's just as if not better than the rest! We get to see Kim out of her comfort zone well and truly and also a softer side of Dawson, I remember not liking him too much at first but now he's an old friend. This one is focused on the sex trade and I'm saying no more! Read it for yourself seriously it's fab and I'm sad it's over. Write more soon please!!

This is Kim Stone at her finest . Action packed tense and heart stopping . A twisted story that just keeps getting more and more twisted . Brilliant cant wait for more from this series

I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.

Kim investigates the deaths of three prostitutes with Bryant, while the rest of her team looks for the mother of a three month old baby, abandoned at the police station. Their enquiries lead them to a factory employing exclusively Romanian workers all living at the same address, and to the body of a Romanian man whose leg has been broken in twelve places.

Excellent as usual, with short chapters moving things forward quickly. The sections describing Ellie and her relationship with Roxanne were chilling. The working relationship between Kim and Bryant was humorously portrayed. I feel that the author is attempting to develop something similar with the other members of the team, Stacey and Dawson, but I'm not feeling it yet. There was a certain amount of hearkening back to previous instalments, which (while I did read them) I couldn't clearly recall, and these interrupted the flow somewhat.

Recommended.

Broken Bones by Angela Marsons is the seventh book in the DI Kim Stone series. We are back with Kim and her trusty team of Dawson, Bryant and Stacey.

A young prostitute is murdered on the same night a baby is abandoned. As more bodies turn up, each killed in a more violent way than the one before, Kim and her team realise they are dealing with a serial killer. Add into the mix a case of modern slavery and we’re led deep into the world of exploitation and cruelty as they try to solve both cases.

I have loved Angela’s books from the first instalment and this book is no exception. In fact I can easily say each it is my favourite to date. You are drawn in from the very first page and instantly gripped by the plot line. Kim and her colleagues feel like old friends and you find yourself living an breathing each page with her. Kim is a strong character but also has her vulnerable moments making her easy to identify with. This book is gritty and fast paced and gathers momentum with each turn of the pace.

I can highly recommend this book to all and would give it a fabulous five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Bookouture and Angela for the chance to review. I look forward to book 8 in the series.

Simply brilliant. Firstly the plot is amazingly good and keeps you hooked from the first page. I really didn’t see the ending coming and really really enjoyed this read. Secondly being reintroduced to the world of Kim and Bryant et al is like catching up with old friends. Kim seems in a better place too less looking back and seems happier in her skin. I can’t recommend this book enough. I read it in one day and feel bereft now I’ve finished it

what can i say!!! another amazing instalment in the Kim Stone series. i finished this book in 2 sittings!

the team again work against the clock to solve murders, abduction, illegal immigrants and an abandoned baby!

i really hope there are many more books in this series. many thanks to netgalley and the publishers for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

It’s here, the 7th book in the DI Kim Stone series. I tweeted, as soon as it became available, that Angela Marsons was the only author that I put other books down for, to read hers when they come out.

Did it live up to my expectations?

Hell Yes!

Detective Inspector Kim Stone and her team are back. The story starts with a young girl sitting on the roof of a Black Country Tower Block on Christmas Day. She gets pushed off, but will anybody ever know it wasn’t suicide?

Over the next few weeks, as the midlands is covered in snow, a baby is abandoned outside Kim’s Police Station, a prostitute is murdered on her patch, and as the team become involved in solving these crimes they become start to uncover a slave trade ring of forced labour.

The books takes the reader into the underworld of prostitution, drugs, and modern slavery.

With the team recovering from the events of a few months earlier, Kim pairs-up her young Detective Sergeant Kevin Dawson, with her young Detective Constable Stacey Wood. This partnership is the Yin and Yang of policing. Full-on-Kevin is a typically out-going personality that likes to push the limits, and is full of self-confidence. Black Country-Girl-Stacey, is quiet, methodical, and deep thinking. They both have a positive effect on each other, and bring the best out of each other as people, and as Police Officers. As they investigate the abandoned baby case they are thrust into the world of illegal immigrants and forced labour.

Meanwhile Kim uses her trusted old-hand, Sergeant Bryant, to keep her on the right side of the line that divides pushing Police Procedures to the limit, and breaking the law.

Kim and Bryant look into the death of the prostitute and the investigation takes them to the seedier side of two “titutions” that go hand in hand. Destitution and Prostitution.

Bully boy pimps, gangs, drugs, the horror of street-walking-sex-trade workers, physical abuse, and grooming are day-to-day occurrences for the prostitutes of the Black Country. Now, just to make matters worse, somebody has killed one of their own. As Kim and Bryant start their investigation they come across some familiar faces and the reader gets to see the other side of the lives of the street girls. The vulnerable women and the desperation that leads them into the life they live.

The investigations of the murdered prostitute and the abandoned baby are only the start of a series of crimes that have the team stretched to the limit physically and emotionally as the book roars to an end on a bleak cold night.

When I first started blogging I said I was dubious about prolific authors who publish more than 1 book a year. My thoughts, and experiences, were that a good book takes time to write, and that anybody who wrote 2, or more, each year was just churning out words and hoping their fans would keep buying.

Angela Marsons has proved the exception to that. 7 books in this series in a little over 2 years; and over 2 million copies sold. Each book raises the bar, each book is better than the last.

The only other author that has kept me hooked on a series, of Police procedural books, for this long is Tess Gerritsen with her Rizzoli and Isles series; and that is not bad company to be in.

As with Gerritsen, Angela Marsons books are as much about her characters as they are about the crimes they investigate. It cannot be a coincidence that readers invest in these two authors. I always look forward to seeing what Kim and her team are up to, in their private lives, and in the investigation.

Angela Marsons remains my favourite author, and there are a lot of good authors out there at the moment.

I can’t wait for book number 8.

This is the 7th Kim Stone book and I just love the series and all the characters. I received my arc , abandoned all my other books and didn’t stop till I had finished it. The story was fast paced, lots of different storylines and kept me enthralled all the way through.

The book see the usual team of Stone, Bryant, Stacey and Dawson working fabulously together – we learn a bit more about their characters and I think we see a softer side to Stone in this book.

The book deals with lots of emotive topics and opens your eyes to victims and how they can be manipulated and coerced when they have no other option left to them.

Fabulously well written – can’t wait for the next installment

That prologue! #killerhook alert! It just sets you up perfectly for the next in the Kim Stone series and you know it’s going to be good when your eyes fill up with tears while at the same time you gasp with shock as a young girl is pushed to her death. On the same night, a young baby is abandoned outside of the police station and this is just the start of an emotional whirlwind of a read.

DI Kim Stone is one of my favourite female ballsy detectives out there and in Breaking Bones, she loses none of those special qualities that I have grown to love over the series. But this time around we also see a softer side to Kim, as she uncovers some of the worst examples of human behaviours imaginable. I found it impossible not to be moved by the harrowing tales of prostitution, modern-day slavery and grooming that emerged as the story progressed. This was more than simply a police procedural for me, this was a loud and clear statement highlighting all that is wrong in our modern-day world. In a world where "poverty porn" has become a form of TV entertainment, where kids are so isolated and fractured from any sense of family that their own homes are no longer places of safety; a world where newspaper headlines scream about "murdered prostitutes" and lose focus on the person behind the label they have so cruelly and thoughtlessly attached; a world where other human beings are forced to flee the horrors of their own country only to end up as slaves in this country. This is what grabbed me about this book! Authors are sometimes criticised for using their work as a personal soapbox but I for one will never criticise authors like Angela and others who use their books as a means to make a statement and to get that message out there. If just one person reads this book and changes their assumptions and stereotypes about the people behind the headlines then it is always going to be worth it!

Ohhh sorry, I went off on a bit of a rant there didn't I?! Relationships in the team put to the test with the addition of two new members of staff to assist in the current investigations and I found it intriguing to see how this impacted on the team dynamics. Yet despite this nothing impacts on the core strength of Kim's team, they are tight-knit and they are all on the side of justice, even if it means bending the rules a little to get there! Aside from Kim, Dawson, kind of stole the show for me this time around, he has been keeping a secret but when it is revealed then my heart just about melted! 

As I said before, the themes of the book are pretty dark and as such there are a number of odious characters but one that I'd never tire of slapping is Kai Lord, OMG he was vile! He made my skin crawl!

It's kind of hard to talk too much about the storyline without giving anything away but if I were, to sum up how this book made me feel, I'd have to say: Broken Bones broke me into tiny pieces, I was like a wrung-out sponge by the time I'd turned the last page. Never so much have I wanted to climb into the pages of a book and rescue so many characters. Angela Marsons is one of the most immensely talented writers out there; she has an exceptional skill in creating a cast of characters and a spider web of plots that will keep you glued to the book until it is finished. I'd strongly advise getting yourself well comfy before you start reading this as you are not going to move until you are done!