Fatal Promise starts with DI Kim Stone getting medically release after breaking her leg at the end of her last book, Dying Truth. Now she has to go back to work and deal with the death and replacement of one of her teammates. Her team, Bryant and Stace, had been temped out to other squads and under-used, but now it's time for a new case and a new team member.
Both the case and the team member are from previous books. One is a Doctor from the Spades, one of the graduates for the Heathcrest Acadamy, the private school for Dying Truth (Book 8) and the addition of Penn, a detective from the team that Kim had worked with a couple of books ago. Penn is an excellent data miner, just like Stacey. Penn's biggest problem is that Stacey and Kim look at him as replacing Dawson, not as what or who he is.
Stacey is on her first case running solo form a missing persons case from when she was on loan and things are not smelling right for her. It's up to her to find a 15-year-old girl with medical problems, with friends and her father that don't really care that she is missing.
Going back to the Doctor, he is found dead in a wilderness area with very small clues. More people are found dead and clues lead us to a father and son. Now Kim has them all wrapped up but there is still doubt because everything is just too easy.
So do Stace and Penn put their differences aside? Can Kim overcome her feeling that Dawson's death was her fault? Can Kim justify making Penn leave her team? Do Kim and Stace solve their cases?
After Dying Truth, Fatal Promises was not quite as good, but I think it's because Dying Truth was just that good. I'm going to rate this 8 of 10. It's still a great book.
Fatal Promise by Angela Marsons,
DI Kim Stone Series Book 9
2
 - Angela Marsons)
