ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Bryndza is also the author of the Detective Erika Foster series, which includes the #1 international bestseller The Girl in the Ice, as well as The Night Stalker, Dark Water, Last Breath, Cold Blood, and Deadly Secrets. He has sold over 3 million copies of his books and been translated into 28 languages. In addition to writing crime fiction, Robert has published a bestselling series of romantic comedies. He is British and lives in Slovakia with his husband.

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ABOUT THE BOOK - NINE ELMS

Inspired by the complex and psychologically twisted relationship between Clarice Starling and Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs, Bryndza explores the relationship between a heroine and a charming psychopath—who are devastatingly linked. Kate Marshall is a former police detective and recovering alcoholic, who fifteen years later, is still haunted by the scandal that clouded her victorious capture of the notorious Nine Elms serial killer and ended her career. Now a lecturer at a small coastal English university, she’s doing her best to take care of her young son but, given her traumatic past, she must lean on her mother for assistance.

Her quiet life is shattered when a copycat takes up the work of the Nine Elms killer, and more bodies turn up under eerily familiar circumstances. Kate enlists her brilliant research assistant, Tristan Harper, and draws on her prodigious and long-neglected skills to catch this new monster. Rules that constricted her as a police detective no longer apply in the private sector. Unwavering in her pursuit, she hopes success will bring redemption, but much more is at stake. Kate was the original killer’s intended fifth victim—and his successor is determined to finish the job.