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Stone Cold Heart

By: Caz Frear
Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
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A fractured marriage. A silent family. A secret that connects them all.

When DC Cat Kinsella is approached by Joseph Madden for help with his wife, Rachel, there's not much she can do. Joseph claims that Rachel has been threatening him but can't - or won't - give Cat details as to why.

Dismissing it as a marriage on the rocks, Cat forgets about it. That is until Naomi Lockhart, a young PA, is found dead after a party attended by both Joseph and Rachel, and Joseph is arrested for the murder. Joseph says his wife is setting him up. His wife says he didn't do it. The trail of evidence leads to even more questions....

Adulterer. Murderer. Victim. Who would you believe?

©2019 Caz Frear (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Murder Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Marriage Exciting

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Critic reviews

"Stone Cold Heart confirms Caz Frear as a crime fiction force to be reckoned with. A gripping, layered story - and a last line that left me desperate to read the next Cat Kinsella adventure!" (Erin Kelly, author of Broadchurch)
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I enjoyed book one, and I enjoyed the story of book two but I found it to be more of a challenge as there was no action whatsoever, my mind kept wandering and I found it difficult to stay awake. I had to read some chapters 2 or 3 times. The cliffhanger in the very last paragraph makes me wonder if I could possibly read book 3 to find out what happens.....

A Struggle

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love this Author and the production must be the vest on audible hands down brilliance, humor and fantastic storylines

pure excellence

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Enjoyed this one, been looking forward to reading it after Sweet Little Lies, Caz Frear can paint a good mental picture.
Another well written story with twists you don't see coming and building on the complexity of the main character and her relationship with her father, which is hopefully eventually going to build into a whole book of it's own. But also showing her skills as a DCI improving.
Jane Collingwood is a fantastic narrator and her and Caz make a good team which I hope continues in future books

Entertaining with Twists & a Dysfunctional Family

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A fantastic book 2 from this very talented lady!
I loved the way the characters have been carried over from book 1 yet with another twisting and turning suspenseful story that gripped me until the very last page.
It’s left me hungering for Book 3!
Thank you!

Yet another cracker from this fantastic author!

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Enjoyable and great narration but felt too long and the storyline drags. I like the main character though

Good But Too Long

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Gripping story and believable characters. Twists and turns of a murder investigation..
The narrator is amazing, best narration I’ve heard.
Highly recommended.

What a great yarn!

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Clearly from the same stable as book one in the series. Set in central London, we follow a murder investigation from the perspective of DC Cat Kinsella of Murder Investigation Team 4. The story is linear and told using the first person present tense. There's no jumping about between time periods and there's lots of dialogue so it's rather like listening to a radio play in real time.

You don't have to have listened to book one before this one, but it would help. This book only briefly explains what previously went on between Cat, her father, Marianne and Cat's "Uncle Frank" from Ireland, but it probably explains enough.

As with book one "Sweet Little Lies" there's quite a bit of lying going on in this book too, by the suspects and witnesses as they try to protect themselves and their families. We also hear quite a bit about the personal and working lives of Cat Kinsella and her police colleagues so they feel to us like real people.

The story gets quite exciting towards the end as the truth starts to be revealed. The very end is intriguing, and hints at the possibility of a third book to come in the series.

This is a great book if you like police investigations or books with lots of dialogue. Personally, I prefer suspense thrillers and car chases. This is not one of those, but I'm still giving it 4 stars. It is really well written and narrated.

You Always Protect Family

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I loved the first in this series and this one didn't disappoint either.

I didn't like the ending 😕 hence the 4 ⭐️ and not 5 but I'm excited to see what happens next.

another great one

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It’s hard to put this book down. There is so much going on - there’s the story and then there’s the STORY. One is the crime and investigation the other is the complex live of Cat Kinsella. While it all sounds confusing it isn’t - the writing is superb creating memorable characters and while the two stories are very much intertwined they are also very delineated.

This is book two and this is not the kind of crime saga that you can pick up and read in any order. You have to read book one or you will miss most of the STORY.

Layered page turner

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An awesome second book; looking forward to many more! Brilliantly performed and a clever twist I wasn’t expecting (or was I?). There in lies the magic of Caz Frear.

Awesome!

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