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Start with Silent Scream and continue through all 18 books in the listed reading order.
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Start with Silent Scream
Book 1 by Angela Marsons • Published 2015
When a headmistress is found strangled and bones are uncovered at a former children's home, DI Kim Stone is pulled into a case that stretches back decades, exposing institutional abuse and forcing her to relive her ow...
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Ends with Little Children
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Book 1:Silent Scream
Angela Marsons • 2015
When a headmistress is found strangled and bones are uncovered at a former children's home, DI Kim Stone is pulled into a case that stretches back decades, exposing institutional abuse and forcing her to relive her ow...
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Book 2:Evil Games
Angela Marsons • 2015
A convicted rapist is murdered soon after his release, and the obvious suspect seems almost too convenient. As DI Kim Stone digs deeper, she clashes with psychiatrist Alex Thorne, a dangerous sociopath who turns the i...
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Book 3:Lost Girls
Angela Marsons • 2015
Two nine year old friends vanish from a leisure centre, and their kidnappers pit the girls' parents against each other with a chilling ultimatum, only one child will come home. Under a media blackout, Kim Stone races...
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Book 4:Play Dead
Angela Marsons • 2016
Sent to a body farm to learn from forensic experts, Kim Stone and her team instead find a freshly murdered young woman among the cadavers. When another victim is attacked with the same signature, Kim uncovers links to...
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Book 5:Blood Lines
Angela Marsons • 2016
A social worker and a drug addict are killed with the same precise stab wound, leaving no obvious connection. As Kim Stone hunts a meticulous killer, chilling letters from imprisoned psychiatrist Alex Thorne drag her...
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Book 6:Dead Souls
Angela Marsons • 2017
When an archaeological dig uncovers a mass grave in the Black Country, Kim Stone must work with a rival detective to untangle decades of secrets between two local families. At the same time, her team investigates a sp...
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Book 8:Dying Truth
Angela Marsons • 2018
When a teenage girl apparently jumps from the roof of an elite boarding school, the death is written off as suicide, but Kim Stone is not convinced. As more students and staff die, she uncovers secret societies, bruta...
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Book 9:Fatal Promise
Angela Marsons • 2018
A doctor with a chequered past is found murdered in woodland, then his son is critically injured in a suspicious crash and another victim soon follows. Still grieving a devastating loss, Kim Stone and her fractured te...
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Book 10:Dead Memories
Angela Marsons • 2019
Someone is recreating the worst moments of Kim Stone's life, from a childhood ordeal in a tower block to the deaths of the only parents she ever loved. As staged crime scenes pile up, Kim must face her own past while...
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Book 11:Child's Play
Angela Marsons • 2019
An older woman is found tied to a swing with barbed wire, an X carved into her neck. As more victims with the same mark are discovered, Kim Stone traces them back to competitive tournaments for gifted children, where...
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Book 12:First Blood
Angela Marsons • 2019
Set before Silent Scream, this prequel follows Kim Stone on her first big case with a brand new squad. When a young man is found dead in the woods and another body appears under a grand staircase, the trail leads to a...
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Book 13:Killing Mind
Angela Marsons • 2020
A young woman is found in bed with her throat cut and a knife in her hand, an apparent suicide that does not sit right with Kim Stone. When another victim linked to a retreat turns up, Kim sends an officer undercover...
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Book 14:Deadly Cry
Angela Marsons • 2020
A young mother is murdered after a trip to a busy shopping centre, leaving her little girl alone with a teddy bear. Days later a second woman dies and her son disappears. As letters from the killer land on Kim Stone's...
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Book 15:Twisted Lies
Angela Marsons • 2021
A man is found tortured to death on an industrial estate and, within a day, his entire family vanishes. When a second body is staked out in a nature reserve, Kim Stone uncovers a long buried secret that some police of...
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Book 16:Stolen Ones
Angela Marsons • 2021
Eight year old Grace disappears from a childcare centre just hours after a man walks into the station claiming to hold the key to a decades old abduction. Playing a twisted game with him, Kim Stone must find Grace and...
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Book 17:Six Graves
Angela Marsons • 2022
A house fire leaves two teenagers and their parents dead, each with a gunshot wound and the mother holding the weapon. As Kim Stone questions the murder suicide assumption, a threat from a psychopath in her own past a...
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Book 20:Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Use the reading order above to move through the series in the intended sequence.
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Book 23:Little Children
Angela Marsons • 2025
Sent to a northern seaside town to help find two missing boys, Kim Stone clashes with a guarded local force and parents who seem strangely unmoved. When a bruised body turns up back on her own patch, she uncovers a ne...
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Kim Stone FAQ
What is the best order to read the Kim Stone series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Silent Scream.
How many books are in the Kim Stone series?
There are 18 books currently listed in the Kim Stone series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Kim Stone series?
New readers should start with Silent Scream, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Kim Stone series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears possibly ongoing and spans releases from 2015 to 2025.