Play Dead

Author/Guide: Angela Marsons

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2000s: A secret body farm and a body which is not supposed to be there…

ISBN: B01D3TD9VQ
Genre: Crime, Thriller

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What you need to know before your trail

The fourth DI Kim Stone book and in this one DI Stone is sent to a secret ‘body farm’ where she is to learn about everything that happens to a decaying corpse. The inhabitants so to speak of the facility are corpses in varying degrees of decay and this body farm is actually a research facility. DI Kim stone is there at the behest of her superiors but she is drawn into a criminal investigation when a ‘fresh’ body is found which was not part of the facility and shouldn’t have been there. Who is it and where are they from. Is this the most shocking yet clever hiding space for a killer to dispose of his bodies yet?. Then as DI Stone is trying to make sense of this, she comes face to face with her old adversary – ruthless crime reporter Tracy Frost

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A body farm – where bodies go to be examined and where those who study their decay go to watch them decompose. This side of forensics with the study of how insects act and feed off corpses and how the weather has an effect on decomposition too.

“Not signposted as a sign of rotting corpses then”

Ok so it’s not the nicest of settings, especially when one of the corpses is not on the inventory. Where there is one extra body that can’t be accounted for..It’s built like a tardis and gives you the creeps even before you’re inside:

“Multiple flies hovered and then dived with the excitement of a new discovery”

The bodies are called residents – there is a resident ‘maggot lady’ although this is not like the farm in Knoxville made famous by Patricia Cornwell it is said, although it is like the farms where law enforcement learn about scene of crime skills.

A very unique and uncomfortable place to be, but fascinating as well. You’ll be swatting flies off with the rest of them.

Booktrailer Review

Clare: @thebooktrailer

How Angela Marsons takes me to such dark places each and every time I don’t know. She scares me with her descriptions and plot twists but then I have to stand back at the end of it all and applaud her. Quite frankly this is one humdinger of a novel and then some. I’ve never been quit as creeped out this early on in a novel before and still wanted to keep reading. This is one maggot infested and rottenly good novel that keeps you reading even though like me you are probably scratching yourself and flicking imaginary flies of you as you read.

I really am quite fascinated with DI Kim Stone and her colleagues. Tracy Frost – well there’s two names that suit. But it’s DI Stone although she lacks a lot in the social stakes, you really would want her on your team. She’s careful to respect the victims and is ‘visibly’ shaken when the body is found.

Despite it being set on a body farm, the pace is flat out exciting. Think there’s no pace and tension in a farm of bodies. Well you are wrong and what a setting! Grissom should read this book – he’d love it and probably be on the next flight out. He’d get on great with the men and women of Black Country CSI

Very yucky descriptions really add to the overall emotions you feel on reading this. There are numerous twists and turns and what an ending! Angela Marsons I do salute you although you always make me want to scrub myself after reading your books.

DI Kim tTone is a great police character and the cast here is one of the best in a crime series in my opinion. Although she scares me, I respect her and can’t want to meet up with her again in the next novel.
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