Kim Stone Books in Order

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 investigation into a deadly mind game.

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 to stop the cruel game.

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 own brutal childhood.

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 back into family trauma she thought she had buried.

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 old school secrets and a killer who refuses to let go.

On a snowy Christmas night, a newborn is left outside the police station while, across town, a young prostitute is murdered. As more sex workers are brutally killed, Kim Stone's team follow a trail into modern slavery and trafficking, and Kim confronts someone from her own past.

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 spate of hate crimes that may be connected.

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, brutal initiation rituals and a killer hidden in plain sight.

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 team must hunt a ruthless killer linked to a local hospital.

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 ambition curdled into something far more dangerous.

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 racing to unmask a vengeful stalker.

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 women's refuge hiding explosive secrets.

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 desk, she races to save a missing child.

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 into a manipulative cult like community.

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 other missing girls before time runs out.

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 officers would do anything to keep hidden.

Nineteen year old Jamie Mills is found hanging from a tree and quickly written off as a suicide, but injuries on his body tell Kim Stone otherwise. The trail leads to a so called clinic that claims to cure young people of their sexuality, and to someone silencing its former patients.

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 and a shocking family secret raise the stakes.

A man is found posed beneath the trees, barely alive, and dies before he can speak. When a second victim with broken bones arranged into an unnatural shape appears, Kim Stone realises someone is hunting men who once boasted about terrible crimes as teenage offenders.

Psychic Sandra Deakin is stabbed to death in a churchyard, her mouth slashed as if to still her voice. As Kim Stone questions the secretive women who attended Sandra's last séance and probes a psychic call centre, she uncovers a killer targeting those who profit from the grieving.

After local reporter Tracy Frost brings Kim Stone a chilling anonymous message, Kim is given thirty six hours to follow a trail of cryptic clues or people will die. As victims are abducted and deadly deadlines loom, she has to break the rules to outplay a ruthless game master.

Sheryl Hawne is found stabbed on her kitchen floor while her teenage daughter kneels beside her, still gripping the knife and unable to speak. When other former pageant mums are murdered, Kim Stone must unpack a toxic world of glitter, trophies and lifelong damage done in the name of perfection.

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 network that preys on vulnerable children across regions.

Beloved wife and social worker Ashley Reynolds is stabbed in her own garden, with no obvious enemies and a husband acting oddly. When a honey trapper and a seemingly blameless woman are killed the same careful way, Kim Stone must discover why someone believes these women deserve to die.