Dead Souls

DI Kim Stone and DS Bryant have been called out to a field where professor of forensic archeology has been showing a group of her students the process involved in an investigation.  The thing is, Dr. A, as the professor is known, has discovered a skull.  Is it really Stone’s case?  DI Travis thinks that it is his because it is in his territory.  She regards it as her territory.

Their respective DCIs decide that it will be a joint investigation.  Travis will be in charge of the operation while Stone has the laboratory and forensics.  Can the two detectives work together again?  Stone isn’t betting on it.

While Stone is starting on her case, her two DSs discover that the case they have is an attempted murder.  Stone and Travis are surprised when Dr. A informs them that they have a second body at the site.

The tenor of the investigation changes when the son of the lessee is shot.  Could it be related to their case or simply coincidental as Travis believes?  The father acquiesces to Stone’s request to search the land, but when the victim’s sister shows up, she immediately revokes the permission because it is her name on the lease.

It is at this point that Stone is informed by Dr. A that there is a third body at the site, and none of them had been buried there in the first place.  One has a gunshot wound.  Now the question that arises, is how long have they been there?

DS Bryant and DS Dawson have another case on their hands.  A young man has been tied to rails, resulting in his death.  Dawson knows the lad.  He is a young reporter.  DS Bryant is appointed temporary DI to head up the investigation.

At the same time all of this DC Stacey Wood is following up on a suicide.  She has discovered that the young man was a racist, but not what led to his suicide.

Stone and Travis are shocked when Dr. A tells them details behind the deaths of the victims they are investigating.  At this point, the pace of action intensifies.  The reader is left on the edge of their seat wondering what is going to happen on the next page.

Author Angela Marsons has written a complex thriller that has several threads that she knits into an extremely exciting read, which is hard to put down.  I’m looking forward to reading the next in this series.