Another great read! I’ve loved all of Roberts books and this one didn’t disappoint! I’m enjoying the relationship between Kate and Tristan lots and they’ve really come together in this book, a great team and a fascinating story. Looking forward to book number 3

A gripping thriller following former police officer Kate Marshall's investigation into a missing person. Great characterisation and fast moving plot.

This is the second case for Kate Marshall, a former police detective with a terrible, tragic and troubled past who now works as a lecturer in crime on the south-west coast, and takes up private investigation work in her spare time.

We meet Kate again enjoying time off with her 16-year-old son Jake. They are diving together in a reservoir, searching for a lost town. Instead they discover the body of a young man, who had died, or had he been killed, in the days before.

The boy's mother entreats Kate to find out what had happened to her son as the police dismiss the case as an accident.

Kate, with her university assistant, Tristan, looks into the events and discovers much more than one teenager's tragic death. A missing person case highlights how people have been disappearing for years, there's possible police corruption, and a local landowning family has a stranglehold on the community.

Following on from meeting Kate first in 'Nine Elms', this is once again a gripping thriller. The characters of Kate and Tristan, their friendship, and their family situations are all brilliantly drawn, and the pace of the book is perfectly pitched. But once again the author has delved into a very dark world that I don't enjoy reading for entertainment - torture, imprisonment, violence against women, described in graphic detail. I skimmed these pages. I hope that for future novels in this series, Kate and Tristan will have less sick and sinister crimes to investigate!

Another absolutely fantastic read by a truly fantastic author. I was so excited to be approved for this one, I happy danced for 20 minutes before losing myself in the pages of this gorgeous book.
I adore Kate and Tristan, they are such a fantastic pairing and I love their style of solving crimes when the police seem to be doing very little.
This book has completely gripped me, I have been addicted from the very beginning. I have loved the links back to the previous book. This is another gruesome discovery early on which pulled me in.
I have completely devoured this book in just a couple of hours this afternoon. What an absolutely fantastic fantastic read and a book that is definitely one who keeps you on the edge of your seat.
This is definitely addictive and gripping. This is a wonderful author who never fails to pull me in. This book is well-written and extremely captivating.
A definite five star star read, however this author deserves more than five stars to show how fantastic these books are.
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A good read.
When Kate Marshall 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.
I loved this book from starting to ending.
Thanks to NetGalley and Sphere for giving me an advance copy.

The book opens with a UK regional swimming champion being attacked by an unknown assailant at Shadow Sands reservoir. Two days later, forty-two-year-old Kate Marshall and her teenage son, Jake, are swimming in the same waters, taking pictures of a sunken village — only to stumble on a gruesome find, something that Kate is rather good at.

Kate becomes embroiled in the case at the request of the victims mother. With the help of Tristen Harper and the mortician, it becomes clear the Kendal boys death was no accident. Geraint Jones’ melancholic statement and Alan Herman’s refusal to comment on time of death make this an eerie case—that and the police’s rapid decision to rule accidental death.

There’s clearly something much bigger going on with witnesses about to give statements and then winding up dead. The ending, as with all Bryndza’s books threw me for a loop. I’m loving the PI stance to Kate’s career and I’m hoping to see her getting up to all kinds of ticks without the oppressive rules of a police department to hinder her. Another ACE read.

This is one of those books that gives you goose pimples, a few sniffles and sniggers. Loved the cappuccino/Al Pacino comment. Oh, and Dylan and Thomas. It explores the darkest criminal minds and puts killers where you least expect to find them. Bryndza’s writing is always clear, well researched. His understanding of forensics and police procedural always makes me feel I’m in reliable hands. His descriptions of the area: Kate’s two-storey house in Thurlow Bay and the edgy, dark imagery of the crime scene is sure to stay with you for a very long time. This series is maddeningly addictive and soaks up every dark pleasure and every nail-biting terror and provides a protagonist you definitely want to root for.

Thank you to the author Robert Bryndza, Netgalley, the publisher Thomas & Mercer and Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book.