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    "title": "Play Dead",
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    "collection_title": "D.I. Kim Stone",
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    "annotation": "<p><span>The dead don&rsquo;t tell secrets&hellip; unless you listen.&nbsp;</span><br /><strong>The girl&rsquo;s smashed-in face stared unseeing up to the blue sky, soil spilling out of her mouth. A hundred flies hovered above the bloodied mess.</strong><span>&nbsp;</span><br /><span>Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. A &lsquo;body farm&rsquo; investigating human decomposition, its inhabitants are corpses in various states of decay. But when&nbsp;</span><strong>Detective Kim Stone</strong><span>&nbsp;and her team discover the fresh body of a young woman, it seems a killer has discovered the perfect cover to bury their crime.&nbsp;</span><br /><span>Then a second girl is attacked and left for dead, her body drugged and mouth filled with soil. It&rsquo;s clear to Stone and the team that a serial killer is at work &ndash; but just how many bodies will they uncover? And who is next?&nbsp;</span><br /><span>As local reporter, Tracy Frost, disappears, the stakes are raised. The past seems to hold the key to the killer&rsquo;s secrets &ndash; but can Kim uncover the truth before a twisted, damaged mind claims another victim &hellip;?&nbsp;</span></p>",
    "description": "The dead don\u2019t tell secrets\u2026 unless you listen.\u00a0\nThe girl\u2019s smashed-in face stared unseeing up to the blue sky, soil spilling out of her mouth. A hundred flies hovered above the bloodied mess.\u00a0\n\nWesterley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. A \u2018body farm\u2019 investigating human decomposition, its inhabitants are corpses in various states of decay. But when\u00a0Detective Kim Stone\u00a0and her team discover the fresh body of a young woman, it seems a killer has discovered the perfect cover to bury their crime.\u00a0\n\nThen a second girl is attacked and left for dead, her body drugged and mouth filled with soil. It\u2019s clear to Stone and the team that a serial killer is at work \u2013 but just how many bodies will they uncover? And who is next?\u00a0\n\nAs local reporter, Tracy Frost, disappears, the stakes are raised. The past seems to hold the key to the killer\u2019s secrets \u2013 but can Kim uncover the truth before a twisted, damaged mind claims another victim \u2026?\u00a0\n\n",
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    "page_count": 400,
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    "publication_date_first": "2016-05-20",
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