{"title":"Robert Bryndza","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"chasing-shadows-paperback","title":"Chasing Shadows - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a deadly game of cat and mouse, Detective Erika Foster confronts her greatest nemesis-where the lines of justice blur and secrets unravel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA collapsed ceiling. A dead body. What starts as a routine 999 call takes an unexpected twist when Detective Chief Inspector Erika Foster arrives on the scene and discovers the body of a woman in an empty flat, with all DNA evidence scrubbed away. When forensics find cocaine residue coating every surface of the ceiling, Erika calls in the drug dogs, who lead her to a mysterious parcel locker on the outside wall of the property. Chasing down the locker's owner leads Erika back where she never expected to be - staring into the eyes of Jerome Goodman, the drug dealer who murdered her husband, Mark, ten years ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe arrests him on the spot, but there's just one problem. His passport and his solicitor say his name is Kieron Bagshaw, and his record is squeaky clean. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith top brass demanding she take leave to deal with her PTSD and even her closest colleagues questioning her sanity, Erika decides to use the time off to do some digging of her own. Trawling for clues through old newspapers, encrypted messages, and secret underground passageways, Erika makes a series of shocking discoveries that move Mark's murder from cold case to active investigation, all while flying under the Met's radar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe revelations will push Erika to the brink, forcing her to confront the trauma of her past and the truth about what happened the day Mark died - and who among her friends was involved from the shadows.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101223653599,"sku":"9781914547379","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xxBEIxlzHG9781914547379.webp?v=1781068502"},{"product_id":"the-lost-victim-paperback","title":"The Lost Victim - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen school girl Janey Macklin disappeared from the seedy side of London in 1988, her case went cold, with no body and no witnesses.\u003c\/strong\u003e Now, thirty years later, private detective Kate Marshall has been approached by a true crime podcast producer with an intriguing question they need her help answering: \u003cstrong\u003e What if Janey was killed by Peter Conway, the notorious Nine Elms Cannibal?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe contract would be the most lucrative of Kate's career, \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ebut it comes with a price of its own, dredging up a sordid, complicated past that she would sooner forget\u003c\/strong\u003e . . . one that the paparazzi are determined to keep in the headlines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Kate and her partner, Tristan, scour King's Cross for clues, no two leads seem to point in the same direction. \u003cstrong\u003eThe last person to see Janey alive has already been tried, convicted, and then acquitted of her murder, Peter Conway is in poor health and fading fast\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the line between their clients and their suspects is blurring with each new revelation about the case.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith little to work from, can Tristan and Kate wade through clandestine phone calls, decades-old secrets, and deteriorating DNA evidence to \u003cstrong\u003esolve Janey's murder, or will she remain one of London's countless missing persons, forever lost to time?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA brilliantly gripping thriller from the global multi-million-copy bestselling author, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Victim\u003c\/em\u003e will have you hooked from the first page and holding your breath all the way to the heart-stopping ending.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan be read as a standalone.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101561983199,"sku":"9781914547263","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/juDEhJol7M9781914547263.webp?v=1781071729"},{"product_id":"lethal-vengeance-paperback","title":"Lethal Vengeance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetective Erika Foster returns with Lethal Vengeance, the eighth chilling serial killer case in Robert Bryndza's multi-million bestselling crime thriller series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe man lay on his front, his arms and legs bound and pulled up with a rope connecting the two. His head was arched back, so he faced the curtains, and there was masking tape over his mouth. Erika gingerly reached out and checked his pulse.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYep. Dead all right.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cstrong\u003eDetective Erika Foster \u003c\/strong\u003efinds politician Neville Lomas naked, hog-tied, and dead in his own bed, skittish higher-ups at the Met \u003cstrong\u003equickly rule the death from natural causes\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eCase closed \u003c\/strong\u003e. . . until two months later \u003cstrong\u003ewhen a well-known casting director and a star footballer are found murdered and tied with the same knots.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Met can no longer ignore what's staring them in the face: \u003cstrong\u003ethere's a serial killer loose in London, and they're out to settle a score.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Erika and her team investigate, \u003cstrong\u003ethings take a strange turn as CCTV footage turns up five female suspects . . . and they're all identical.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the hunt to identify the women, \u003cstrong\u003eErika is outpaced at every turn\u003c\/strong\u003e by an elusive sex worker with dirt on enough powerful men to make the Met's top brass nervous - and desperate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs time ticks away until the killer strikes again\u003c\/strong\u003e, it's up to Erika to untangle the web of evidence and answer the critical questions: What ties the victims together, who else is caught up in this scandal, \u003cstrong\u003eand how far are the higher-ups willing to go to protect their own?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGripping, tense and impossible to put down, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLethal Vengeance\u003c\/em\u003e will have you on the edge of your seat, racing to the final dramatic page.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan be read as a standalone.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101618344159,"sku":"9781914547195","price":23.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RblpVV_EQH9781914547195.webp?v=1781071836"},{"product_id":"fatal-witness-paperback","title":"Fatal Witness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow do you find a killer who has destroyed all the evidence?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetective Erika Foster\u003c\/strong\u003e is on a late-night walk near her new house in Blackheath \u003cstrong\u003ewhen she stumbles upon the brutal murder of Vicky Clarke, a true-crime podcaster.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErika is assigned to the case and discovers that Vicky had been working on a new podcast episode about a sexual predator who preys on young female students around South London, staking out his victims in their halls of residence before breaking in at the dead of night. When Erika discovers that Vicky's notes and sound recordings were stolen from her flat at the time of her murder, \u003cstrong\u003e it leads her to believe that Vicky was close to unmasking the attacker, and she was killed to guarantee her silence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case takes on a disturbing twist when the body of a young Bulgarian student doctor is discovered in the same building, and this makes Erika question everything she thought she knew about Vicky. \u003cstrong\u003eWith very little evidence, the clock is ticking to find the killer before he strikes again.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR ROBERT BRYNDZA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'You can't help turning the pages hungrily to see what happens next'\u003c\/strong\u003e THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Compelling at every turn, as we follow the brilliantly drawn Detective Erika Foster in her relentless hunt for one of the most horrific villains in modern crime fiction.'\u003c\/strong\u003e -Jeffery Deaver, #1 internationally bestselling author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'So chilling, with truly terrifying characters and a hard-hitting storyline that is gripping from start to finish'\u003c\/strong\u003e -Rachel Abbott, Amazon Charts bestselling author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Twisty, dark, and layered with a protagonist you root for from page one'\u003c\/strong\u003e -M. W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A riveting page-turner. An astonishingly good plot with perfectly drawn characters and sharp, detailed writing.'\u003c\/strong\u003e -Robert Dugoni, #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Robert Bryndza's characters are so vividly drawn-even the slightest character-and fully human and uniquely imperfect. His plots are clever and original and cool, and his sense of timing is excruciatingly flawless' \u003c\/strong\u003e-Augusten Burroughs, New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101634924767,"sku":"9781914547065","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OU5ZOU9YSVJCVnJPZkNsWHcyMWRKZz09.webp?v=1781071867"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/robert-bryndza.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}