Kate Marshall was a London detective inspector whose biggest catch—a serial killer who was a fellow inspector, her lover, and the father of her son—destroyed her career. Determined to put a damaged past behind her and her skills to work, Kate starts her own detective agency with her trusted researcher and friend, Tristan Harper. It’s what she does–for justice and for redemption. Combining breathtaking psychological suspense and explosive family drama, Robert Bryndza pits a strong yet vulnerable heroine against the darkest of crimes in his Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling series.
Nine Elms (Kate Marshall #1) (Worldwide English language editions)
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 became a nightmare.
Fifteen years after those catastrophic, career-ending events, 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. But there's much more than her reputation on the line: Kate was the original killer's intended fifth victim . . . and his successor means to finish the job.
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Shadow Sands (Kate Marshall #2) (Worldwide English language editions)
The internationally bestselling author of Nine Elms and The Girl in the Ice, Robert Bryndza is back with his nail-biting second Kate Marshall case, a woman with a dark secret and a powerful sense of justice.
When Kate finds the bloated 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 the victim there, in the middle of the night? If he was such a strong swimmer, how did he drown?
Kate is certain there is more to this case than meets the eye. As she and her research assistant Tristan Harper dig deeper, they discover a bloody trail that points towards an active serial killer hiding in plain sight. People have been silently disappearing for years, and when another woman is taken, Kate and Tristan have a matter of days to save her from meeting the same fate.
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Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall #3) (Worldwide English language editions)
Kate Marshall's Detective agency takes off when she and her partner Tristan are hired to investigate a cold case from over a decade ago. Twelve years previously, a determined young journalist called Joanna Duncan exposed a political scandal that had major repercussions. In the fallout she disappeared without trace and was never found.
When Kate and her partner Tristan examine the case files, they find the trail long cold, but they discover the names of two young men who also vanished at that time. As she begins to connect their last days, Kate realizes that Joanna may have been onto something far more sinister than anyone first believed: the identity of a serial killer preying on the people who few will ever miss.
But the closer Kate comes to finding the killer, the darker things become . . .
'Never less than throat-grabbing . . . Bryndza knows how to keep the pages - and your stomach - turning' THE TIMES
'It is impossible not to root for the feisty, flawed Kate' DAILY MAIL
'An exciting, riveting read from a master storyteller who never disappoints' RACHEL ABBOTT
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Devil’s Way (Kate Marshall #4) Worldwide edition
THE TRUTH HIDES IN THE DARK
Kate Marshall’s investigation into a young boy’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by multi-million bestselling author, Robert Bryndza.
When Private Investigator Kate Marshall is rushed to hospital after being pulled into a riptide current in the sea, the near-death experience leaves her shaken. During her recovery, she befriends Jean, an elderly lady on the same ward. Jean tells the harrowing story of how her three-year-old grandson, Charlie, went missing eleven years ago during a camping trip on Dartmoor.
By the time Kate is well enough to go home, she's agreed to take on the case, but when Kate and her trusty sidekick Tristan start to look at the events of that fateful night, they discover that Jean has a dark past that could have put Charlie in jeopardy.
Was Charlie abducted? Or did he fall into Devil's Way? A rushing river that vanishes into a gorge close to where they were camping.
When Kate and Tristan discover that a social worker who flagged concerns about Jean and her daughter was found brutally murdered shortly after Charlie vanished, it makes them question everything they thought they knew about the family...
Filled with twists and turns, Devil's Way is the fourth Kate Marshall novel and the most gripping and satisfying yet!
'A masterly storyteller' ― LJ Ross
'A rising star in British crime fiction' ― Irish Independent
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