Length: 382 pages
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What they say:
If the Night Stalker is watching, you’re already dead…
In the dead of a swelteringly hot summer’s night, Detective Erika Foster is called to a murder scene. The victim, a doctor, is found suffocated in bed. His wrists are bound and his eyes bulging through a clear plastic bag tied tight over his head.
A few days later, another victim is found dead, in exactly the same circumstances. As Erika and her team start digging deeper, they discover a calculated serial killer – stalking their victims before choosing the right moment to strike.
The victims are all single men, with very private lives. Why are their pasts shrouded in secrecy? And what links them to the killer?
As a heat wave descends upon London, Erika will do everything to stop the Night Stalker before the body count rises, even if it means risking her job. But the victims might not be the only ones being watched… Erika’s own life could be on the line.
The global bestselling author of The Girl in the Ice is back with a heart-racing, electrifying thriller. If you love Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott and Karin Slaughter, you’ll be hooked on Robert Bryndza.
Watch out for more from DCI Erika Foster.
The Review: I’d like to start by apologising for my lengthy absence. Every blogger out there whose been gone a while generally comes back and it’s either personal reasons, or some huge achievement … I’m not sure I can offer you either. I HAVE been writing a new rom com, part of a series, and considering I’ve been gone exactly a month I should be telling you that this is finished, but I’m ambling along, albeit with some purpose, and am nearly finished draft 1. And hey, I’ll take it, as there was a time I was afraid that It Started With A Snub was going to be my sole work. So anyhoo, good to be back and I have been reading all around me as I’ve gone, so I will have a constant flow of reviews for you in the coming days/weeks, so that’s something too!
You’ll remember how much I adored The Girl In The Ice by Robert Bryndza (see review here). I raved about it, recommended it in every facebook forum possible and outside of social media, with friends and family that I thought would enjoy. I was thrilled to be back to see Erica Foster again, back to find another killer on the loose in the streets of London.
The pacing of this book was epic, the atmosphere created from the start charged, backed up, as before, with impeccable descriptions that put me right at the scenes of the murders, and I found myself nervously making my way to bed at night, checking under beds and in cupboards (I hate being an adult sometimes!).
We were shown intimate details of characters that were close to Erica, and in the back of our mind I was trying to figure out if they were related to the goings on. Special mention for those out there who are writers/ avid readers, they will be be especially happy with the presence of an author in this book (or maybe I’m just nerdier than I thought!).
We were also privy to conversations between two characters in a chat room, and so had a slight edge on DCI Foster, albeit not much. These, joined with an extra back story helped us piece together the puzzle of deaths that were connected and yet not alongside Erica (not before as I’m sure others could). They were delivered in a dark, fast paced manner that kept me wanting to read the whole time. I will say that I found this book darker than book 1, and tougher too, and so it comes with a slight caveat on the level of detail in terms of people’s private lives (porn on computers and the like) and methods of murder, meaning I’m not sure that it will fit all of the people that book 1 did, however it will most definitely lasso even more of an audience into his books. A great book that I will also be recommending, that can be read as a standalone or part of the series (you may as well go back and read book 1 too!)
Cannot wait for the next book in this series. Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for this book in return for an honest review.
Rating: 4.5/5
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A month is quite respectable. Lots of boggers blog just once a month. Good that you’re back in action anyway.
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Thank you! I might add that I was drifting for the last few months really, with very little structure to how I was blogging, partly due to internet (still horrendous), but mostly because I couldn’t settle and had my mind on other things. Great to be back though!
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