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In a deadly game of cat and mouse, Detective Erika Foster confronts her greatest nemesis—where the lines of justice blur and secrets unravel.

A collapsed ceiling. A dead body. What starts as a routine 999 call takes an unexpected twist when Detective Chief Inspector Erika Foster arrives on the scene and discovers the body of a woman in an empty flat, with all DNA evidence scrubbed away. When forensics find cocaine residue coating every surface of the ceiling, Erika calls in the drug dogs, who lead her to a mysterious parcel locker on the outside wall of the property. Chasing down the locker’s owner leads Erika back where she never expected to be – staring into the eyes of Jerome Goodman, the drug dealer who murdered her husband, Mark, ten years ago.

She arrests him on the spot, but there’s just one problem. His passport and his solicitor say his name is Kieron Bagshaw, and his record is squeaky clean.

With top brass demanding she take leave to deal with her PTSD and even her closest colleagues questioning her sanity, Erika decides to use the time off to do some digging of her own. Trawling for clues through old newspapers, encrypted messages, and secret underground passageways, Erika makes a series of shocking discoveries that move Mark’s murder from cold case to active investigation, all while flying under the Met’s radar.

The revelations will push Erika to the brink, forcing her to confront the trauma of her past and the truth about what happened the day Mark died – and who among her friends was involved from the shadows.

Review:

Dark, gritty, and fast-paced!

Chasing Shadows is a thrilling, ominous tale that takes you back into the life of DCI Erika Foster as the past suddenly collides with the present when an investigation into the death of an unidentified woman shockingly brings her face-to-face with the man who destroyed her life and murdered her fellow officers, including her husband ten years ago.

The writing is tight and intense. The characters are layered, secretive, and persistent. And the plot is an engrossing tale full of twists, turns, secrets, surprises, suspects, deduction, corruption, manipulation, trauma, deception, violence, murder, and closure.

For the past several years, Robert Bryndza’s books have topped my must-read favourites list, and even though I didn’t think it was possible to love his books any more than I already did, he proved me wrong once again. Chasing Shadows is thriller writing at its best and is hands down my new favourite novel in this brilliant series I can’t get enough of.

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