Title: Fear the SilenceAuthor: Robert Bryndza
Published by: Raven Street Publishing on Jul. 6, 2023
Genres: Mystery/Thriller
Pages: 374
Format: Paperback
Source: Robert Bryndza
Book Rating: 9/10
“Do you believe Will took his own life?”
The question echoed off the white tiles in the hospital’s cold, cavernous morgue, and I studied my husband in peaceful repose. I leaned down and put my forehead against his. Silent tears ran down my cheeks. They felt hot, and he felt so cold. It was five days since his death, and my grief felt heavy, like a vast, dark mass pushing down on me.
When Maggie’s husband, Will, is shot dead in their London home, she thinks he is the victim of a burglary until the police tell her the shocking news that Will was the one who pulled the trigger.
Maggie is consumed with grief and questions. Will wasn’t suicidal and had so much to live for.
After the funeral, Maggie travels to their holiday home on a small Croatian island to escape London. She finds a disturbing letter written by Will, containing clues to a dark secret.
As Maggie puts the pieces together, she discovers Will’s death is connected to someone from his past… Someone who will go to extreme lengths to keep Maggie silent.
Three can keep a secret… If two of them are dead.
The international multi-million bestselling author of The Girl in the Ice is back with his first stand-alone thriller, a heart-racing, hold-your-breath read that will keep you hooked until the very last page.
Review:
Captivating, clever, and well-crafted!
Fear the Silence is an elaborately plotted, suspenseful tale that takes you into the life of Maggie Kendall, a trauma surgeon who, after her husband is found dead by a gunshot wound believed to be self-inflicted, heads to their holiday home on the isolated Croatian Island of Tišina, only to discover that her husband had secrets, dangerous secrets that someone is willing to do whatever it takes and kill whoever they have to in order to keep them hidden and silenced forever.
The writing is sharp and tight. The characters are persistent, vulnerable, and resourceful. And the plot, including all the subplots, seamlessly intertwine and unravel into a gripping tale full of secrets, surprises, revelations, deception, corruption, manipulation, power, mayhem, mischief, violence, and murder.
Overall, Fear the Silence is an exceptionally menacing, intricately woven, highly entertaining mystery by Bryndza that may be the first stand-alone thriller novel he’s ever written, but which still has all the twists, turns, suspense, in-depth character development, and great pace we’ve come to know and love from all his previous successful series.
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Thank you to Robert Bryndza for providing me with a copy in exchange for an review.
About Robert Bryndza
Robert Bryndza is an international bestselling author, best known for his page-turning crime and thriller novels, which have sold over four million copies in the English language.
His crime debut, The Girl in the Ice was released in February 2016, introducing Detective Chief Inspector Erika Foster. Within five months it sold one million copies, reaching number one in the Amazon UK, USA and Australian charts. To date, The Girl in the Ice has sold over 1.5 million copies in the English language and has been sold into translation in 29 countries. It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller (2016), the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle in France (2018), and it won two reader voted awards, The Thrillzone Awards best debut thriller in The Netherlands (2018) and The Dead Good Papercut Award for best page turner at the Harrogate Crime Festival (2016).
Robert has released a further five novels in the Erika Foster series, The Night Stalker, Dark Water, Last Breath, Cold Blood and Deadly Secrets, all of which have been global bestsellers, and in 2017 Last Breath was a Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Mystery and Thriller.
Most recently, Robert created a new crime thriller series based around the central character Kate Marshall, a police officer turned private detective. The first book, Nine Elms, was an Amazon USA #1 bestseller and an Amazon UK top five bestseller, and the series has been sold into translation in 18 countries. The second book in the series is the global bestselling, Shadow Sands and the third book, Darkness Falls, has just been published.
Robert was born in Lowestoft, on the east coast of England. He studied at Aberystwyth University, and the Guildford School of Acting, and was an actor for several years, but didn’t find success until he took a play he’d written to the Edinburgh Festival. This led to the decision to change career and start writing. He self-published a bestselling series of romantic comedy novels, before switching to writing crime. Robert lives with his husband in Slovakia, and is lucky enough to write full-time.
