Fatal Harmony - Kate Rhodes- Crime/psychological
Sit on the edge of your seat and hang on! Adrian Stone is a cold hearted killer. He is also
a musical genius. He claims as Bizet did that one is relate to the other. Nine years ago
he killed three members of his family and was put not a secure mental facility. He is a
narcissist and has severe personality disorder however he is clever and cunning and
can turn people in the blink of an ey, having deceived several psychologists in the past
. Dr Alice Quentin now works for the Met and was instrumental in putting Adrian away.
Stone has faked deafness and on the way to a hospital appointment having turned
one of the guards makes his escape, killing two of the guards and leaving the other
one very nearly dead also. He very quickly begins his killing spree and is leaving
things at the scenes for the team to find. Oh my. Kate knows just how to build tension
very quickly and this runs throughout the book. There is that air of standing on the
brink and then pulling away again, just slightly, that knowledge that something could
be about to happen or the case take on a new turn. I took to Alice and her tenacity.
Not only to find Stone but knowing that he was after her and for not taking a back
seat in an easier position. This is my first Kate Rhodes book- it most certainly
won’;t be my last. This is stunningly written and I didn’t want it to end.
If you like on the edge of your seat thrillers then please have a look at this one.
Stunning doesn't do this justice.
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Fatal Harmony blurb Adrian Stone believes he is a genius. A narcissist, with a psychotic desire to pursue his ambition
to become the world’s most revered pianist, Stone joined London’s Royal College of Music as
a child prodigy, believing his path to fame was secure. But when his parents decided to send
him back to school, he slaughtered them and his older sister in their Richmond home, landing
himself in Rampton’s high security unit. Nine years later Stone escapes with two goals in mind: to kill those who denied his destiny
and pursue his musical ambitions. As bodies start to appear around London Dr Alice Quentin is brought in from the Met’s
Forensic Psychology Unit. But when she realises her name is on Stone’s list of potential
victims, the case becomes personal. Working alongside her boyfriend, DI Don Burns, London’s most successful murder
investigator, Alice must stop Stone to save her own life. Alice realises that there is logic to the music left at each murder scene, and thinks she’s
cracked the case, but little does she know what Stone has in store for his grand finale…
Fatal Harmony blurb Adrian Stone believes he is a genius. A narcissist, with a psychotic desire to pursue his ambition
to become the world’s most revered pianist, Stone joined London’s Royal College of Music as
a child prodigy, believing his path to fame was secure. But when his parents decided to send
him back to school, he slaughtered them and his older sister in their Richmond home, landing
himself in Rampton’s high security unit. Nine years later Stone escapes with two goals in mind: to kill those who denied his destiny
and pursue his musical ambitions. As bodies start to appear around London Dr Alice Quentin is brought in from the Met’s
Forensic Psychology Unit. But when she realises her name is on Stone’s list of potential
victims, the case becomes personal. Working alongside her boyfriend, DI Don Burns, London’s most successful murder
investigator, Alice must stop Stone to save her own life. Alice realises that there is logic to the music left at each murder scene, and thinks she’s
cracked the case, but little does she know what Stone has in store for his grand finale…
Kate was born in London and tried many jobs before starting to write. She spent time
as a cocktail waitress, a theatre usherette, and more recently as an English teacher
before writing two prize-winning collections of poetry. Her crime novels have been
translated into ten different languages, and have received high acclaim from the press.
The Guardian described her books as ‘beautifully written and expertly plotted, a
masterclass in crime fiction.’ Her Hell Bay series set in the Isles of Scilly has been
optioned for TV.
Kate’s new crime novel, featuring forensic psychologist Alice Quentin, Fatal Harmony,
will be published by Bloodhound Books in March 2019.
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