Blurb:
From the breakthrough international bestselling author of The Girl in the Ice, a
breathtaking, page-turning novel about a disgraced female detective’s fight for
redemption. And survival…Kate Marshall was a promising young police detective when she caught the notorious Nine Elms serial killer. But her greatest victory suddenly turned into a nightmare. Traumatized, betrayed, and publicly vilified for the shocking circumstances surrounding the cannibal murder case, Kate could only watch as her career ended in scandal.
Fifteen years after those catastrophic events, Kate is still haunted by the unquiet ghosts of her troubled past. Now a lecturer at a small coastal English university, she finally has a chance to face them. A copycat killer has taken up the Nine Elms mantle, continuing the ghastly work of his idol.
Enlisting her brilliant research assistant, Tristan Harper, Kate draws on her prodigious and long-neglected skills as an investigator to catch a new monster. Success promises redemption, but there’s much more on the line: Kate was the original killer’s intended fifth victim…and his successor means to finish the job.
In
1995, Kate Marshall, the heroine of this heart-pounding series launch from Bryndza (the Erika Foster series), was a detective
constable when she unmasked the Nine Elms Cannibal serial killer, who left the
bodies of teenage girls—posed naked with bite marks on their bodies, their
heads wrapped in plastic bags—around London.
Though
the killer was sent to a psychiatric facility, the scandal surrounding the
cannibal case led to Kate’s being unjustly discredited and removed from the
force. In 2010, after years of uncontrolled drinking, Kate is a criminology
lecturer living on England’s south coast when a couple who believe their
missing 16-year-old daughter was a victim of the original killer in 1990 beg
her to find their daughter’s body. A forensic pathologist later consults her
about the recent murder of a young woman, whom Kate concludes was the victim of
a copycat of the Nine Elms killer. The tension rises as Kate begins a deadly
cat-and-mouse game with the new killer, aided by her able assistant, and painful,
long-buried memories resurface.
Bryndza was inspired by the
complex and psychologically twisted relationship between Clarice Starling and
Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris’s The
Silence of the Lambs. In NINE
ELMS, he explores the relationship between a heroine and a charming
psychopath—who are devastatingly and intimately linked.
Author Bio:
Hello, I'm Robert Bryndza. I'm a crime writer and my books have sold 3
million copies, and they've been translated into 28 languages. I'm British and
live in Slovakia. In addition to writing crime fiction, I have published a
bestselling series of romantic comedy novels.
My new novel, Nine Elms, the first in my Kate Marshall private detective series has just been published!
I'm the author of the international #1 bestseller THE GIRL IN THE ICE, which is the first in my Detective Erika Foster series, and to date, it has sold over one million copies. There are six books (so far) in the Erika Foster series, and they can be read as a series, and also work as stand-alone books, so can be read in any order;
THE GIRL IN THE ICE
THE NIGHT STALKER
DARK WATER
LAST BREATH
COLD BLOOD
DEADLY SECRETS
My new novel, Nine Elms, the first in my Kate Marshall private detective series has just been published!
I'm the author of the international #1 bestseller THE GIRL IN THE ICE, which is the first in my Detective Erika Foster series, and to date, it has sold over one million copies. There are six books (so far) in the Erika Foster series, and they can be read as a series, and also work as stand-alone books, so can be read in any order;
THE GIRL IN THE ICE
THE NIGHT STALKER
DARK WATER
LAST BREATH
COLD BLOOD
DEADLY SECRETS
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