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Shadow Sands by Robert Bryndza
Genre: Crime/Thriller
Publisher: Sphere
Rating: 4/5
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About The Book
When Kate Marshall finds the body of a young man floating in the Shadow Sands reservoir, the authorities label it a tragic accident.
But the details don’t add up: why was he there in the middle of the night? If he was such a strong swimmer, how did he drown? As Kate and her assistant Tristan Harper follow the evidence, they make a far darker discovery . . .
This is only the latest victim in a series of bloody murders dating back decades. A mythic serial killer is said to hide in the rolling fog, abducting his victims like a phantom. And when another woman is taken, Kate and Tristan have a matter of days to save her from meeting the same fate.
My Thoughts
I’ll start saying that I loved the previous book of the series, “Nine Elms”, so I couldn’t wait to start digging to the new adventure of Kate Marshall, I knew that she would not disappoint me!
Kate is now a criminology lecturer but she has worked as a police officer before; now her life seems a little bit easier, she is starting to connect with his 16 years old son and seems that she is controlling her alcoholism. But as you can imagine things will not be easy for long, because in one of these family trips with her son they discover a body of a young student that seems to have died in an accident. Kate is not so sure about the victim’s death and when the mother of the victim asks for her help to investigate she can’t say no.
Everything will get more complicated when Tristan, Kate’s assistant, is the main suspect of another disappearance at the university… Are both cases related? Why is the police so eager to stop investigating? Will they find the missing lecturer before it’s too late?
As you can see there are a lot of questions that need answers, but you’ll have to read the book if you want to know them!
This is a nail bitting story, full of mystery and a human touch, don’t expect Kate or Tristan to be perfect, they are human in the end, and they have they faults, but they will try to help as much as they can, be sure of it.
This is the second book of the “Kate Marshall” series, they are amazing and addictive, you can read it as standalone, but I would recommend it to start from the beginning, the wait for the next book will be shorter!
Ready to enter the “Shadow Sands”?
About The Author
Robert Bryndza is an international bestselling author, best known for his page-turning crime and thriller novels, which have sold over four million copies in the English language.
His crime debut, The Girl in the Ice was released in February 2016, introducing Detective Chief Inspector Erika Foster. Within five months it sold one million copies, reaching number one in the Amazon UK, USA and Australian charts. To date, The Girl in the Ice has sold over 1.5 million copies in the English language and has been sold into translation in 29 countries. It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller (2016), the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle in France (2018), and it won two reader voted awards, The Thrillzone Awards best debut thriller in The Netherlands (2018) and The Dead Good Papercut Award for best page turner at the Harrogate Crime Festival (2016).
Robert has released a further five novels in the Erika Foster series, The Night Stalker, Dark Water, Last Breath, Cold Blood and Deadly Secrets, all of which have been global bestsellers, and in 2017 Last Breath was a Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Mystery and Thriller.
Most recently, Robert created a new crime thriller series based around the central character Kate Marshall, a police officer turned private detective. The first book, Nine Elms, was an Amazon USA #1 bestseller and an Amazon UK top five bestseller, and the series has been sold into translation in 15 countries. The second book, Shadow Sands will be published November 3rd 2020.
Robert was born in Lowestoft, on the east coast of England. He studied at Aberystwyth University, and the Guildford School of Acting, and was an actor for several years, but didn’t find success until he took a play he’d written to the Edinburgh Festival. This led to the decision to change career and start writing. He self-published a bestselling series of romantic comedy novels, before switching to writing crime. Robert lives with his husband in Slovakia, and is lucky enough to write full-time.
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