Deadly Secrets: A Detective Series - Robert Bryndza

Mystery

Rating: 7.5/10

As much as I love mysteries and thrillers, I have serious commitment phobia when it comes to a series.  Three or four books are my sweet spot but get too close to double digits or higher and I am out.

But there are times when revisiting a beloved character can provide comfort of a level not found in stand-alone novels. That is what I have done here.

Detective Erika Foster is a brilliant, no-nonsense woman who hides her fragility behind a personality some find abrasive.  But she catches killers. And with each well plotted installment, even manages to make some friends.

These crime novels are tightly written.  Not burying the reader in too many police procedural details, a death knell for this reader. Always giving the killer a chance to narrate and fleshing out marvelous support characters.

Snapshots Of Books In The Series:

Girl In The Ice

A beautiful young socialite who appeared to have everything going for her is found frozen to death under a thick sheet of ice. Detective Foster soon begins to connect the dots between this murder and several others that have a thing or two in common.

Night Stalker

On a sweltering summer night a doctor is found suffocated in bed.  His wrists are bound, and a clear plastic bag has been tied tight over his head.  When another man is found in a similar state Detective Foster and her team must race to prevent another death.

Dark Water

While investigating another crime, the remains of a child that went missing over twenty years ago are discovered.  The question that Detective Foster and the team must answer is what do the crimes have to do with each other?

Last Breath

Detective Erika Foster is on leave when she stumbles into a crime scene where the tortured body of a young women is found in a dumpster. Trouble is its not her case.  If you’ve gotten this far in the series, you will have no trouble believing that she will insert herself in every way possible to capture this potential serial killer.

Cold Blood

Detective Foster has seen many gruesome crime scenes in her years in law enforcement, but nothing tops her latest. A battered suitcase containing the dismembered body of a young man washes up on the shore of the Thames.  Soon Erika and her team realize they are chasing a serial killer.

Deadly Secrets

A beautiful young woman is discovered brutally murdered on her doorstep. Detective Foster soon connects the crime to a series of assaults that have recently taken place.  All committed by a man wearing a gas mask.  The team will chase an abundance of leads on the hunt for this chilling criminal.

Book Pairing(s): Eve Dallas Series by J.D. Robb, Gibson Vaughn Series by Matthew FitzSimmons, Three Pines Series by Louise Penny, Joona Linna Series by Lars Kepler