You will be totally hooked on the utterly addictive, number one, multi-million-copy bestselling Detective Kim Stone series. Years later, the lifeless body of a headmistress is found brutally murdered in what is the first in a series of vicious killings in the Black Country. When troubled teenager Sadie Winter jumps to her death from the roof of her school, the case is ruled as a suicide. This is number 15 in the Kim Stone series and although I haven’t read any of the others, I was assured by the person who introduced me to them that I could read this as a stand-alone, but that I absolutely must go back and read the others!

Set in Germany shortly after World War 2 this is a fascinating story of a young girl discovering that everything she knew about her life was a lie. The line is a reference to the thousands of part-Aboriginal children who were forcibly separated from their families and assimilated into white society during the 20th century.I am looking forward to discussing it with my book group though and seeing what everybody thought of it.

When three more prostitutes are murdered soon afterwards, it becomes apparent that this is the work of a deraged serial killer. I Kim Stone and her team, it becomes apparent that the killer found the perfect play to hide their crime.How did her brother know more about her adoptive parents than she did when he was supposedly just 6 years old when she was snatched? Hours before, Steven Harte had walked into Halesowen police station and confessed to having information that would lead Kim to Melody. Can Saskia confront the chilling echoes of her own family to silence the Piper’s song once and for all? Can Kim put aside her own demons, save Grace and the other missing girls before more innocent lives are lost? I did not connect with any of the characters and it felt like our main characters reactions were too flat.

But her attempts to intervene see her side-lined from the case, with only DI Labey standing beside her. The story takes on so many twists that towards the ending, you think the whole story is over, and yet there is another surprise which is not only shocking but gives the very end of the story a satisfying feel. The theme of food runs through the book and the contrast between German and Polish food shows the difference in the cultures. The whiff of censorship provoked by official intervention lends a touch of rebel glamour without striking a penny from the marketing budget.

When the remains of a middle-aged couple are found in a burnt-out car, it become increasingly hard to ignore just how similar the incident mirrors that of Erica and Keith—the only loving parents Kim had ever known. Piers Akerman, an influential columnist with Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper, accused Noyce of "playing fast and hard with the truth".

As Cher types up letters about overflowing rubbish bins in a job she hates, she dreams of Michael Hunter. Eventually 10 murders occurring in the previous and present years are what Detective Stone is set to investigate. Part of the anger, according to Olsen, comes down to the fact that, unlike the frontier massacres, the stolen generations affected people living today.She’s very determined to find out the truth but when she does her whole family life is torn apart as she struggles to deal with what has happened. His source for the attack was Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the factual novel by Aboriginal author Doris Pilkington. Usborne are to publish 'The One Who Knows My Name', my story of a girl who finds out that she's been stolen by the Nazis as part of Himmler's 'Lebensborn' programme, in February 2019 when they will also republish 'The Earth is Singing' as an Usborne Modern Classic. Okay so I liked the premise of this one and I definitely think the story was a really interesting one. The way the author depicted Inge's story in that era with flavors of mystery, romance, betrayal and sorrow was truly outstanding.