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kay_23's review against another edition
5.0
Another good book by Robert. What an ending to this one. Can’t wait for the rest.
margaridang's review against another edition
4.0
Cada vez gosto mais desta saga. Já era fã, mas agora sou ainda mais! Não há dúvidas de que os livros de Robert são super acessíveis e fáceis de ler.
Eu comecei a ler o livro ontem, e de uma vez só li metade. Hoje não fui tão rápida, mas não ia deixar o dia acabar sem terminar este livro.
Até agora foi o que gostei mais, apesar de que, o segundo foi mais sangrento. Neste livro não há um fator de medo, o que é raro acontecer, mas é uma história que mexe connosco.
Não sei como dar a minha opinião sem dizer algo que possa ser um spoiler. A nível de thrillers estou muito habituada a Lars Kepler, então ler esta saga é como nadar, e vir à superfície para respirar. Há um pouco de angústia, e ansiedade para descobrir o que se passa, mas ao mesmo tempo é tão óbvio que fico mais tranquila.
Não é uma história que me deixou em sobressalto, e como não foi uma história agressiva (apesar de duas personagens terem sido mortas), não me deixou em alerta como acontece quando se lê livros deste género. Paranoia controlada.
Acho que ao ser uma história mais relaxada, e um crime que, não sendo bem crime aconteceu vinte e seis anos antes deu alguma liberdade para me conetar mais com as personagens. Outro ponto em que o autor não se foca muito: não existe uma descrição excessiva, nem um foco enorme na vida pessoal das personagens. É nos dada a informação necessária para criar laços.
Até agora são leituras agradáveis porque as minhas suspeitas acabam por estar corretas. É uma sensação de conforto chegar ao fim; descobrir que estava certa, e saber todos os pormenores e porquês.
Neste livro é mais um exemplo de como por vezes, coisas simples e de fácil resolução se transformam num monstro gigante de crime, e mentiras porque não sabemos agir da forma mais correta.
Os livros seguem a detetive Erika Foster, e há outras personagens que são recorrentes, mas como a investigação atual fica sempre resolvida, não há nada que me faça querer ir a correr e ler o próximo. Não sei se isso muda no futuro, mas no final eles ficam sempre bem. Facilmente podem ser lidos de forma individual. Até agora não há grande coisa que possa ser visto como um spoiler gigante.
Não vou a correr ler o próximo, mas tenho intenções de ler os livros todos do autor (até porque os tenho todos em casa). A rapidez com que me agarrei e li o livro faz dele o livro perfeito para sair de um ressaca literária. De cada vez que me sentir presa, ou sem vontade para ler já sei que autor pegar.
Eu comecei a ler o livro ontem, e de uma vez só li metade. Hoje não fui tão rápida, mas não ia deixar o dia acabar sem terminar este livro.
Até agora foi o que gostei mais, apesar de que, o segundo foi mais sangrento. Neste livro não há um fator de medo, o que é raro acontecer, mas é uma história que mexe connosco.
Não sei como dar a minha opinião sem dizer algo que possa ser um spoiler. A nível de thrillers estou muito habituada a Lars Kepler, então ler esta saga é como nadar, e vir à superfície para respirar. Há um pouco de angústia, e ansiedade para descobrir o que se passa, mas ao mesmo tempo é tão óbvio que fico mais tranquila.
Não é uma história que me deixou em sobressalto, e como não foi uma história agressiva (apesar de duas personagens terem sido mortas), não me deixou em alerta como acontece quando se lê livros deste género. Paranoia controlada.
Acho que ao ser uma história mais relaxada, e um crime que, não sendo bem crime aconteceu vinte e seis anos antes deu alguma liberdade para me conetar mais com as personagens. Outro ponto em que o autor não se foca muito: não existe uma descrição excessiva, nem um foco enorme na vida pessoal das personagens. É nos dada a informação necessária para criar laços.
Até agora são leituras agradáveis porque as minhas suspeitas acabam por estar corretas. É uma sensação de conforto chegar ao fim; descobrir que estava certa, e saber todos os pormenores e porquês.
Neste livro é mais um exemplo de como por vezes, coisas simples e de fácil resolução se transformam num monstro gigante de crime, e mentiras porque não sabemos agir da forma mais correta.
Os livros seguem a detetive Erika Foster, e há outras personagens que são recorrentes, mas como a investigação atual fica sempre resolvida, não há nada que me faça querer ir a correr e ler o próximo. Não sei se isso muda no futuro, mas no final eles ficam sempre bem. Facilmente podem ser lidos de forma individual. Até agora não há grande coisa que possa ser visto como um spoiler gigante.
Não vou a correr ler o próximo, mas tenho intenções de ler os livros todos do autor (até porque os tenho todos em casa). A rapidez com que me agarrei e li o livro faz dele o livro perfeito para sair de um ressaca literária. De cada vez que me sentir presa, ou sem vontade para ler já sei que autor pegar.
_onemorechapter_'s review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
𝑻.𝑾: Murder of a child, Paedophilia, Loss and Grief
💭 At the end of Night Stalker Erika Foster was put in for transfer after being passed over for promotion. Now working in south London investigating drug trafficking, Erika is working on a tip-off that she receives about a shred of important evidence for a major narcotics case, the evidence is buried in an unused quarry in the outskirts of London - she orders a search, along with the drugs the skeleton a young child is also discovered!
This body has lied still for many years and has remained undisturbed, the discovery is just the beginning of many nightmares to follow!
The remains are identified as 7-year-old Jessica Collins who went missing almost 26 years ago when she was on her way to attend a birthday party!
Erika talks herself into this murder investigation and once again is under fire from her superiors to produce results. When her request is granted, Erika is reunited with her old teammates, including Detectives Peterson and Moss.
The original investigation was led by former Detective Amanda Baker, who honed in on a suspect. However, Amanda had no choice but to release him and from that point, things went terribly awry. Amanda ended up retiring early and in the ensuring years has become an alcoholic hermit. But she has maintained a relationship with Detective Crawford, who was also assigned to the case years ago. He lost interest in police work years ago and Amanda pulled him into selling seized drugs fifteen years ago. When the investigation is reopened, Amanda demands that he funnel information to her, threatening to expose him if he doesn't acquiesce.
Erika and the team try to piece together new evidence with the old, but they have to dig deeper as they meet Trevor who was identified as a suspect all those years ago - but with a little tip-off that a volunteer organization received thru the then investigating officer Trevor experiences a lot of harm to his face and body - sues the MET and ends up winning the case!
As the investigation proceeds, neither Erika nor Amanda is aware that their every movement is being watched and all of their conversations overheard. Someone has gone to great lengths to install listening devices in strategic locations and hack their cellular telephones to stay apprised of developments in the case . . . and ensure that Erika does not discover the truth.
In this one, Erika seems to have matured and even though she can still be quite abrasive and demanding, her approach reads as less reactive, and more restrained, than the previous offerings. Also, the story of the character of Erika Foster continues to develop and the reader gets to know her better. Readers of previous books know that her husband, Mark, was killed in a drug raid that Erika lead. Erika has been torn between holding onto Mark's memory and moving on. Having a close and intimate relationship with another man. In this story, she takes another step. Erika’s sister Lenka makes an appearance in the later part of the book and I liked how the author weaved in some solid sequences for her.
There is always solid police work in the series, and that is true with this book as well. For quite a bit of the book, Erika and the team make very little progress and yet the book is very readable. And of course, the team including Moss and Peterson are always a delight to have around.
In terms of the storyline, there are many repetitive tropes from the first book including a body submerged in water, a dysfunctional family and a killer breaking into Erika's flat.
As clever as Detective Foster is at solving crimes, I feel like the author has really weighed her down with a lot of baggage and she is not as likeable as one would hope. She is in fact, a bit of a rude, snappier and harsher in this book(There was a lot of snapping happening for my liking which was one of the reasons not giving it four stars). I get that Crawford was meant to be a dislikable character, but when she took her anger out on him in chapter 41, I actually felt sorry for him! She not only had a go at him unnecessarily, but she also completely humiliated him, which was completely unfair! I definitely didn’t like her that much in this book.
I also think, for being such a great detective, Erika should probably brush up on her fighting and self-defence skills. I mean for such a brilliant cop, she sure gets herself “almost killed” a lot.
Overall, it was a fast-paced novel with enough crumbs laid out throughout the chapters that you don't want to stop reading. The cold case plot line was interesting so was the procedural.
On and all good read with some positive changes in the characters!
𝐏.𝐒 Marsh needs to stop hinting at Erika(Cringe!!)
🔸𝑴𝒚 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: ⭐⭐⭐.75
🔸𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 4.26 (22623)
🔸𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒆: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense and Police Procedural
🔸𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔: Detective Erika Foster (Book 3)
🔸𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: Yes!!
If you like crime fiction, this is a great series. While the books have standalone stories, it is still better to start with ‘The Girl in the Ice’ as it provides a good context to Erika’s character and background.
💭 At the end of Night Stalker Erika Foster was put in for transfer after being passed over for promotion. Now working in south London investigating drug trafficking, Erika is working on a tip-off that she receives about a shred of important evidence for a major narcotics case, the evidence is buried in an unused quarry in the outskirts of London - she orders a search, along with the drugs the skeleton a young child is also discovered!
This body has lied still for many years and has remained undisturbed, the discovery is just the beginning of many nightmares to follow!
The remains are identified as 7-year-old Jessica Collins who went missing almost 26 years ago when she was on her way to attend a birthday party!
Erika talks herself into this murder investigation and once again is under fire from her superiors to produce results. When her request is granted, Erika is reunited with her old teammates, including Detectives Peterson and Moss.
The original investigation was led by former Detective Amanda Baker, who honed in on a suspect. However, Amanda had no choice but to release him and from that point, things went terribly awry. Amanda ended up retiring early and in the ensuring years has become an alcoholic hermit. But she has maintained a relationship with Detective Crawford, who was also assigned to the case years ago. He lost interest in police work years ago and Amanda pulled him into selling seized drugs fifteen years ago. When the investigation is reopened, Amanda demands that he funnel information to her, threatening to expose him if he doesn't acquiesce.
Erika and the team try to piece together new evidence with the old, but they have to dig deeper as they meet Trevor who was identified as a suspect all those years ago - but with a little tip-off that a volunteer organization received thru the then investigating officer Trevor experiences a lot of harm to his face and body - sues the MET and ends up winning the case!
As the investigation proceeds, neither Erika nor Amanda is aware that their every movement is being watched and all of their conversations overheard. Someone has gone to great lengths to install listening devices in strategic locations and hack their cellular telephones to stay apprised of developments in the case . . . and ensure that Erika does not discover the truth.
In this one, Erika seems to have matured and even though she can still be quite abrasive and demanding, her approach reads as less reactive, and more restrained, than the previous offerings. Also, the story of the character of Erika Foster continues to develop and the reader gets to know her better. Readers of previous books know that her husband, Mark, was killed in a drug raid that Erika lead. Erika has been torn between holding onto Mark's memory and moving on. Having a close and intimate relationship with another man. In this story, she takes another step. Erika’s sister Lenka makes an appearance in the later part of the book and I liked how the author weaved in some solid sequences for her.
There is always solid police work in the series, and that is true with this book as well. For quite a bit of the book, Erika and the team make very little progress and yet the book is very readable. And of course, the team including Moss and Peterson are always a delight to have around.
In terms of the storyline, there are many repetitive tropes from the first book including a body submerged in water, a dysfunctional family and a killer breaking into Erika's flat.
As clever as Detective Foster is at solving crimes, I feel like the author has really weighed her down with a lot of baggage and she is not as likeable as one would hope. She is in fact, a bit of a rude, snappier and harsher in this book(There was a lot of snapping happening for my liking which was one of the reasons not giving it four stars). I get that Crawford was meant to be a dislikable character, but when she took her anger out on him in chapter 41, I actually felt sorry for him! She not only had a go at him unnecessarily, but she also completely humiliated him, which was completely unfair! I definitely didn’t like her that much in this book.
I also think, for being such a great detective, Erika should probably brush up on her fighting and self-defence skills. I mean for such a brilliant cop, she sure gets herself “almost killed” a lot.
Overall, it was a fast-paced novel with enough crumbs laid out throughout the chapters that you don't want to stop reading. The cold case plot line was interesting so was the procedural.
On and all good read with some positive changes in the characters!
𝐏.𝐒 Marsh needs to stop hinting at Erika(Cringe!!)
🔸𝑴𝒚 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: ⭐⭐⭐.75
🔸𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 4.26 (22623)
🔸𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒆: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense and Police Procedural
🔸𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔: Detective Erika Foster (Book 3)
🔸𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: Yes!!
If you like crime fiction, this is a great series. While the books have standalone stories, it is still better to start with ‘The Girl in the Ice’ as it provides a good context to Erika’s character and background.
rmarcin's review against another edition
4.0
Another solid Erika Foster mystery. This time, Erika and her team are waiting for the dive team to recover drugs that were thrown into a quarry. While the divers discover the drugs, they also make another grisly discovery - the skeleton of a young girl. Erika begs for the case, and searches for the truth as to how this child was murdered. It turns out to be a decades old case of a missing girl. As Erika unravels the facts of the case, people associated with the case are turning up dead.
judithdcollins's review against another edition
4.0
From Robert Bryndza, the author of [b:The Girl In The Ice|28721136|The Girl In The Ice (DCI Erika Foster, #1)|Robert Bryndza|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1453800927l/28721136._SY75_.jpg|48263544] and [b:The Night Stalker|29073628|The Night Stalker (Detective Erika Foster, #2)|Robert Bryndza|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1551890316l/29073628._SY75_.jpg|49303666], comes the third in the gripping suspense series DARK WATER featuring the tenacious DCI Erika Foster.
“Death lies on her, like an untimely frost. Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
As the novel opens, a mysterious Prologue, Autumn 1990. A body dumped in a quarry. Someone was watching but they were unaware. 3am. Darkness thick and clammy.
What the two figures did not know, was that a reclusive old man lived by the quarry squatting in an old abandoned cottage which had almost been reclaimed by the undergrowth.
A body dropped into the water. It sank. She would lie still for years. But above her on dry land, the nightmare was only just beginning.
The man did not want trouble. He had spent his entire life trying to avoid it. He had to sneeze. They saw him. He turned to run and tripped.
Jump forward to October 2016, Detective Chief Inspector Erika Foster—they were looking for ten kilos of heroin packed into a waterproof container; worth four million pounds. They had someone in custody, Jason Tyler a low- level drug dealer.
Now a drive team. Something packed in under the mud. Thirty feet down in the quarry. They found something else. A child’s skeleton. Who would dump a small child in the quarry? Gang related?
Erika was shaken to the core. She felt a pang of regret she was no longer in her old job on the Murder Investigation Team at Lewisham Row.
She was now working in conjunction with the Projects Team, fighting organized crime. It would be another officer’s job to find out how the small skeleton ended up thirty feet down in the freezing blackness.
During her time in the force, she had spent several years heading up anti-drug squads, but no matter the name or title, the war on drugs rumbled on and it would never be won. The minute one supplier was taken out there would be another to take its place.
Murderers, however, were different. You could catch them and lock them up.
With further investigation, the skeleton is confirmed that of a seven- year -old girl, Jessica Collins. The dental records and an autopsy with a small amount of bone marrow confirmed that of a girl who went missing August 7, of 1990.
What happened to Jessica Marie Collins, born April 11, 1983?
The girl had left her parent’s house to go to her school friend’s birthday party on the next street and never arrived. They never found her.
On August 25 of the same year, Trevor Marksman, a local sex offender was arrested but released four days later without charge. He had a cast-iron alibi, after being released from prison and living in a halfway house. The police inquiries continued for the next two years. No further arrests were made.
The case was unresolved. Until now. The Forensic Pathologist was keeping her in the loop. Appears the Hayes Quarry was less than two miles from where Jessica had gone missing.
Erika is more than interested in the case, even though they don’t deal with kidnap or murder. They deal with proactive contracts to kill, major drugs suppliers, multi-dimensional crime groups, including ethnically-composed gangs, and serious large-scale firearms trafficking.
She wants to solve the case since it landed in their territory. She has unique skills which would benefit a historical murder case (past books).
The original female on the case, ex DCI Amanda Baker. She was the first to be assigned to a high profile case and her work was questionable. Months leading up to the investigation, the woman had been seeing a therapist. However, unlike Baker, Erika will not crack under pressure.
A twenty-six-year-old cold case. She was someone’s daughter and Erika will not rest until she brings justice. She wants her family to be able to move on and grieve. She is assigned as the Senior Investigating Officer on the Jessica Collins Case. Her first assignment: to meet with the parents to break the news.
Plus the challenge now is greater with social media, blogs, and online forums. They were opening a Pandora’s box. However, nothing is as it appears.
Layers of complications. Something is fishy. A cover up? Was she kidnapped? Her family and the entire MET investigation. It was time to visit Amanda Baker. An affair. Erika soon learns the secrets seem to run deeper the more she looks, into this complex case.
Will Amanda with her sordid history be able to help her with a breakthrough she needs? Was this an accident? Who is all in danger of the truth coming out? Could Erika and Amanda, both targeted?
From the past to present, a web of deceit and lies, secrets, fear and desperation---slowly unraveled before reaching the final gripping conclusion. Three dead bodies and a suicide all to cover up the death of one innocent little girl.
Fans of Erika Forster and Robert Bryndza are assured to enjoy the suspenseful and intriguing ride! I also listened to the audiobook as well, narrated by Jan Cramer.
A special thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
JDCMustReadBooks
“Death lies on her, like an untimely frost. Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
As the novel opens, a mysterious Prologue, Autumn 1990. A body dumped in a quarry. Someone was watching but they were unaware. 3am. Darkness thick and clammy.
What the two figures did not know, was that a reclusive old man lived by the quarry squatting in an old abandoned cottage which had almost been reclaimed by the undergrowth.
A body dropped into the water. It sank. She would lie still for years. But above her on dry land, the nightmare was only just beginning.
The man did not want trouble. He had spent his entire life trying to avoid it. He had to sneeze. They saw him. He turned to run and tripped.
Jump forward to October 2016, Detective Chief Inspector Erika Foster—they were looking for ten kilos of heroin packed into a waterproof container; worth four million pounds. They had someone in custody, Jason Tyler a low- level drug dealer.
Now a drive team. Something packed in under the mud. Thirty feet down in the quarry. They found something else. A child’s skeleton. Who would dump a small child in the quarry? Gang related?
Erika was shaken to the core. She felt a pang of regret she was no longer in her old job on the Murder Investigation Team at Lewisham Row.
She was now working in conjunction with the Projects Team, fighting organized crime. It would be another officer’s job to find out how the small skeleton ended up thirty feet down in the freezing blackness.
During her time in the force, she had spent several years heading up anti-drug squads, but no matter the name or title, the war on drugs rumbled on and it would never be won. The minute one supplier was taken out there would be another to take its place.
Murderers, however, were different. You could catch them and lock them up.
With further investigation, the skeleton is confirmed that of a seven- year -old girl, Jessica Collins. The dental records and an autopsy with a small amount of bone marrow confirmed that of a girl who went missing August 7, of 1990.
What happened to Jessica Marie Collins, born April 11, 1983?
The girl had left her parent’s house to go to her school friend’s birthday party on the next street and never arrived. They never found her.
On August 25 of the same year, Trevor Marksman, a local sex offender was arrested but released four days later without charge. He had a cast-iron alibi, after being released from prison and living in a halfway house. The police inquiries continued for the next two years. No further arrests were made.
The case was unresolved. Until now. The Forensic Pathologist was keeping her in the loop. Appears the Hayes Quarry was less than two miles from where Jessica had gone missing.
Erika is more than interested in the case, even though they don’t deal with kidnap or murder. They deal with proactive contracts to kill, major drugs suppliers, multi-dimensional crime groups, including ethnically-composed gangs, and serious large-scale firearms trafficking.
She wants to solve the case since it landed in their territory. She has unique skills which would benefit a historical murder case (past books).
The original female on the case, ex DCI Amanda Baker. She was the first to be assigned to a high profile case and her work was questionable. Months leading up to the investigation, the woman had been seeing a therapist. However, unlike Baker, Erika will not crack under pressure.
A twenty-six-year-old cold case. She was someone’s daughter and Erika will not rest until she brings justice. She wants her family to be able to move on and grieve. She is assigned as the Senior Investigating Officer on the Jessica Collins Case. Her first assignment: to meet with the parents to break the news.
Plus the challenge now is greater with social media, blogs, and online forums. They were opening a Pandora’s box. However, nothing is as it appears.
Layers of complications. Something is fishy. A cover up? Was she kidnapped? Her family and the entire MET investigation. It was time to visit Amanda Baker. An affair. Erika soon learns the secrets seem to run deeper the more she looks, into this complex case.
Will Amanda with her sordid history be able to help her with a breakthrough she needs? Was this an accident? Who is all in danger of the truth coming out? Could Erika and Amanda, both targeted?
From the past to present, a web of deceit and lies, secrets, fear and desperation---slowly unraveled before reaching the final gripping conclusion. Three dead bodies and a suicide all to cover up the death of one innocent little girl.
Fans of Erika Forster and Robert Bryndza are assured to enjoy the suspenseful and intriguing ride! I also listened to the audiobook as well, narrated by Jan Cramer.
A special thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
JDCMustReadBooks
hskrkelle's review against another edition
4.0
Once again tHe Erika Foster series doesn’t disappoint in page-turning suspense.