Shadow Sands: A Kate Marshall Thriller

by Robert Bryndza

Overview

An Amazon Charts bestselling series.

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.

The moors are a perfect hiding place for a serial killer. And a chilling return to the past for nascent private investigator Kate Marshall in a pulse-racing thriller by the author of Nine Elms.

Criminology academic Kate Marshall is on a scuba jaunt with her son when they dive toward a shocking discovery: the body of a teenage boy entangled below the surface of the Shadow Sands reservoir. The detective chief inspector’s too-quick narrative of a tragic drowning doesn’t add up, and when Kate follows the evidence, it leads to a darker discovery.

The victim is only the latest in a series of mysterious deaths and disappearances linked to the moorlands—and a mythic phantom said to hide in the rolling fog. When a researcher of urban legends vanishes without a trace, Kate and her associate Tristan Harper must act fast and look deep if they hope to find her alive.

But the elusive serial killer they’re hunting isn’t the only one a step ahead of Kate and Tristan. Someone else is making dead certain that the secrets of Shadow Sands stay buried.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781542005708
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	11/03/2020
Series:	Kate Marshall Series , #2
Pages:	316
Sales rank:	420,647
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Robert Bryndza is the author of the Amazon Charts bestseller Nine Elms, the first book in the Kate Marshall series, and the Detective Erika Foster series, which includes the #1 international bestseller The Girl in the Ice, The Night Stalker, Dark Water, Last Breath, Cold Blood, and Deadly Secrets. Robert’s books have sold three million copies and have been translated into twenty-nine languages. In addition to writing crime fiction, Robert has published a bestselling series of romantic comedies. He is British and lives in Slovakia. For more information, visit www.robertbryndza.com.

Editorial Reviews

With its delightful detective duo, Bryndza’s refreshing, twisty thriller stays upbeat even in dark moments.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Sharply written and wonderfully wrought, this crime thriller sings with every twist and builds to a more-than-satisfying bang.” —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

★ 09/28/2020

Early in Bryndza’s dazzling sequel to 2019’s Nine Elms, former police officer Kate Marshall, now a university lecturer in criminology, finds the body of a teenage boy while scuba diving in a reservoir near her home in Devon, England. Kate, who has acted as a private investigator in the past, is reluctant to get involved, until the dead boy’s mother persuades her to look into his suspicious death. Kate enlists the help of her assistant, Tristan Harper, who must out himself as queer to clear his name when he appears in film footage outside the house of a missing Italian professor he agreed to go on a date with. The missing professor may be linked to the body in the reservoir, and Kate and Tristan get immersed in a case that begins with an officer who appears to be faking evidence to force a false arrest and ends with a wealthy family that’s all-too-entangled with the business of murder. Sharply written and wonderfully wrought, this crime thriller sings with every twist and builds to a more-than-satisfying bang. Readers will look forward to seeing more of Kate. Agent: Amy Tannenbaum, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

2020-08-19
A criminologist uncovers several shocking secrets at a remote reservoir.

While swimming in Devon’s Shadow Sands reservoir, 18-year-old Simon Kendal notices a man loading a body into a boat. Soon, Simon’s being pursued himself. Days later, Kate Marshall, a lecturer in criminology at the local university, finds Simon’s submerged body, fully clothed, while she’s scuba-diving with Jake, her teenage son. When she reports her discovery, she’s annoyed by the officious manner of new DCI Henry Ko. After speaking with Simon’s grieving mother, Lyn, Kate, who’s already discovered the Nine Elms cannibal serial killer, feels compelled to investigate further. Simon, a competitive swimmer, would never have gone into the water fully clothed. Kate enlists eager student Tristan Harper as an assistant. Things are rocky on the homefront for Tristan, who’s constantly at odds with his sister/roommate, Sarah, and her fiance, Gary, and he’s eager to log some hours away. The local paper suggests that Simon drowned; the medical examiner finds a puncture wound. Kate gets a very different picture of Lyn when she interviews Simon’s close friend Geraint, who was camping with him the night he died. Putting the pieces together, Kate finds something wonky in the timeline. Who can be trusted? Meanwhile, another mystery unfolds. Visiting professor Magdalena Rossi, who had an earlier flirtatious encounter with Tristan, is accosted while doing research at the reservoir and then goes missing. When Kate and Tristan begin researching the history of Shadow Sands, what they discover is truly shocking.

With its delightful detective duo, Bryndza’s refreshing, twisty thriller stays upbeat even in dark moments.

Kirkus Reviews