Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow Wow!!! How did I not see any of that coming! I mean I know the series is awesome, but how on earth does Angela Marsons keep coming up with such difference crimes and scenarios, and aspects of life to look into.

And just discovering more about the lives of the victims and their families was fascinating.

For a change we only have one insight into the murder's head, in the prologue, so you get perhaps a feel for what may be motivating things... but how it all links into the present day, and just how the murderer took some unravelling.

All the while that Kim, Bryant and Stacy are working on these intriguing cases, we get to know a bit more about Penn, while he is back with his old team for the court case, of a case where he was the SIO, but from the moment he steps into the courtroom he has a rather ominous feeling.

It was good getting to know more about Penn and his integrity. and yet while we are getting chapters focusing on him, we are also introduced to a new perky officer who has been given to Kim, to help with the investigation, and provides a bit of light relief.

This is a story about child geniuses, and what they are like as they grow up into adults, and how the families of such child prodigies are treated and react. It is a subject I don't believe I've read in any other book before, so for me at least, this felt incredibly fresh and original, while completely fascinating.

I could barely put the book down, and had I not had any sense of responsibility towards work, I would have happily been reading it until the early hours of the morning in bed. I was so captivated by the investigation and had absolutely no idea who to guess or why!

Despite being book 11 in the series, it could almost certainly be read as a standalone, as its a whole new case and no big references or links back to previous books, although without reading the amazing series as a whole, you would be missing out on such valuable background and depth of character.

Such a fabulous addition to the series, I just wish I didn't now have to wait for book 12. Angela Marsons really does need to write faster, I really dislike waiting.

Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.