Angela Marsons

Angela Marsons is a British crime writer best known for the DI Kim Stone series, set in the Black Country region of the West Midlands and following a driven, damaged detective investigating cases that frequently intersect with her own troubled past. Beginning with Silent Scream, which she initially self-published before it became a bestseller and secured a traditional deal with Bookouture, the series has grown into one of the most commercially successful British procedural franchises of the past decade, prized by readers for its fast pace and willingness to keep pushing Kim Stone's backstory forward book after book.

Marsons deliberately keeps her own biography out of the public eye, preferring the books to speak for themselves, and industry profiles note primarily that she is a lifelong writer who worked for years before Silent Scream's success allowed her to write full time. What is well documented is the series' publishing trajectory: from a self-published debut to a multimillion-copy digital and print bestseller within a few years, translated into numerous languages.

A new reader should start with Silent Scream to meet Kim Stone and the ensemble of detectives around her; the series is best read in order, since Stone's personal history unfolds progressively across the books. There is no film or TV adaptation to date.