The 3 best books by Robert Bryndza

At the time I launched myself with a classification of crime novel writers by countries. It was about referring to the best of each country in a genre spread everywhere as one of the most fruitful and successful. And of course, later you review and realize that the task always requires a later review.

In the case of the British crime novel, I pointed to the great Ian Ranking or John Connolly. And I also pointed to one youngest author as Tana French as a natural reliever or as a complement to these two monsters. But since then another author from the British Isles has begun to make his way through good novels that nudge the best-seller lists of bookstores around the world.

Of course, I mean Robert Bryndza and his fetish character Erika Foster (for me above his other great star Kate Marshall). Erika is a caste detective with her usual lights and shadows, faced with cases of maximum tension on whose circumstances and development, Bryndza knows how to print a combination of the police in which the clues confront us with surprising turns and changes of direction, and the noir purest in which crime appears shading many social, political or power aspects.

In view of the Bryndza explosion and her demonstrated willingness to delve into a saga that already offers two more installments, we must take it into account and enjoy her creative fruitfulness that invites us to make Erika one of those characters with whom meet again periodically.

Top 3 Recommended Novels by Robert Bryndza

I'll see you under the ice

The first of the saga, a story that keeps you magnetized. There is a kind of worldwide literary conspiracy to bring out the role of women as the new emblem of the main character in crime novels.

Police inspectors have given way to them, to show that they can be wiser, finer and more methodical when it comes to uncovering a murder.

And it's not bad at all. It was about time that literature started to catch up a bit. I don't know what was before, yes "The Invisible Guardian"Of Dolores Redondo, or the "I'm not a monster"Of Carme Chaparro or many other cases beyond our borders.

The point is that women have come to stay in the crime novel, as the protagonist and / or author. In this case the author is Robert, a young Londoner which has also joined the new literary trend.

In this play the police in question is called Erika Foster, who will have to face a rugged case in which a young woman appears dead and frozen, under a layer of ice that presents her as in a macabre mirror. The important thing in any crime novel is that from the starting point, usually a murder, the plot invites you to advance down a dark, sometimes unsettling path.

A space where you live with the characters and learn about the dark ins and outs of society, its most sordid aspects, those that also serve to turn each character that appears into a new suspect.

Robert quickly manages to throw that rope that he catches in this type of novels, which at the moment seems to tighten your neck but that you can never stop reading.

As usually happens in these works, as Erika approaches the murderer, we feel the sword of Damocles hanging over her, over her life put at stake in the resolution of the case. And then they appear, as almost always in this genre, Erika's personal ghosts, hells and demons.

And you, as a reader, feel the anxiety to discover that the only character who transmits some humanity in a dark world, is also threatened. The ending, as always in the crime novel, surprising, culminating in an impeccable development where everything fits in with that mastery of the good crime novel writer.

I'll see you under the ice

Dark waters

The third installment of the saga has an I don't know what of purification, of exceptional control of narrative tension. In the noir genre, spontaneous bestsellers are multiplying everywhere.

In Spain we have the case of the dazzling and insultingly young man Javier Castillo, to name one of the most prominent. In the UK they have a Robert Bryndza that aims at the same level from a shared origin on desktop publishing platforms in which readers' fondness ends up reaching leading publishers.

"I'll see you under the ice", his first novel (or at least the one that made him known throughout Europe), presented us with a relentless Erika Foster facing the criminal and his inner abysses as a paradigm of any current crime novel.

And the thing worked remarkably because Robert took care to endow the good storyteller of scenarios with that inquential verisimilitude between the morbid and the sinister waiting to see a little light in a resolution of the case that must imperatively be presented from a plot climax. And now we find a third installment of the Foster saga that points towards that maxim that no great secret can be buried forever.

Chance or perhaps causality leads to an unexpected encounter. During a drug operation that culminates in the seizure of an important cache and the discovery of eerily small human bones.

The shadow of infanticide or some remote loss of a child opens like a cleft of consciousness. The bones belong to little Jessica Collins, who has been missing for more than two decades.

The recovery of remote cases always has that strange charm of lost time, of the lies capable of making their way through the cruelty, of the despair of family members who once again come face to face with their ghosts repudiated to the dreams of each night.

The one who can best guide Erika Foster is Amanda Baker, who will lead the search for the girl and unravel the reasons for her disappearance. But whoever cheated on Amanda at the time will be well aware of the news.

Also the killer may have his own ghosts, dark memories of what he did and what he can do again if Agent Foster continues to inquire about that forgotten case.

Dark waters, Bryndza

A shadow in the dark

The most iconic London transformed in a new light. No dark and cold damp. A heat wave that subjects the city to unusual conditions that thin the environment.

A criminal who seeks his insane glory in the series of murders for victims whose ties do not seem very close beyond their status as single men. Erika Foster takes the baton again to go into those singular shadows that have become a refuge from the heat wave.

From the simple macabre representation of death, meticulously repeated in each scenario, Erika will have to discover the details so that the evil manifests itself in that atrocious way in front of victims who can gradually approach clearer links in which revenge and animosity may be the main reason for his death.

Only that knowing more means for Erika to get too close to a nucleus of the case in which she will soon be seen and therefore, focused as a new victim necessary so that the murderer's plan does not end up falling apart.

And as the plot progresses, it is to be expected that the power of that murderer reaches unimaginable spaces. A novel full of twists and turns, sometimes intuited and at other times disconcerting.

A shadow in the dark

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deadly secrets

That Robert Bryndza's is the most icy setting as a livelihood, it was already clear with his first and surprising novel "I'll see you under the ice." The inhabitants of this author's stories step into a world made of permafrost, from where the worst demons escape in search of human warmth. Hell made ice where emotions no longer burn and everything remains in the hands of mischievous, frozen souls, incapable of empathy and therefore already capable of the worst animosity.

It's a freezing morning, a mother wakes up to find the frozen, blood-soaked body of her daughter on the road in front of her house. Who could carry out such a murder on the doorstep of the victim's own house?

On the heels of a harrowing case, Detective Erika Foster feels fragile but determined to lead the investigation. As she gets to work, she finds reports of assaults in the same quiet south London suburb where the girl was killed. There is a chilling detail that links them to the murder victim: they were all attacked by a figure dressed in black wearing a gas mask.

Erika is on the hunt for a killer with a terrifying cover letter. The case is further complicated when she discovers a tangle of secrets surrounding the beautiful young woman's death. Also, just as Erika begins to piece together the clues, she is forced to confront painful memories from her past. Erika must dig deep, stay focused, and find the killer. Only this time, one of their own is in terrible danger.

deadly secrets

frozen blood

A fifth installment of Erika Foster that leaves us breathless with that icy point in which Robert is capable of freezing the blood...

The suitcase was very rusty and it took Erika Foster several tries to get it open, but it finally gave way when she pulled hard on the zipper. Nothing could have prepared her for what she would find inside her...

When a damaged suitcase containing the dismembered body of a young man is found on the banks of the River Thames, detective Erika Foster is shocked. But it's not the first time she's seen such a brutal murder...

Two weeks earlier, the body of a young woman was found in an identical suitcase. What connection could there be between the two victims? When Erika Foster and her team get to work, they quickly realize they are on the trail of a serial killer who has already made his next move.

However, just as the detective begins to move forward with the investigation, she is the target of a violent attack. Forced to recover at home, and with her personal life falling apart, everything is against her, but nothing will stop Erika.

As the body count mounts, the case takes an even more twisted turn when they discover that the twin daughters of Erika's co-worker, Commander Marsh, are in terrible danger. Erika Foster finds herself facing the biggest case of her career, can Erika save the lives of two innocent girls before it's too late? Time is running out and she's about to make an even more disturbing discovery...there's more than one killer.

Frozen Blood, by Robert Bryndza
4.8/5 - (5 votes)

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