This is an intriguing thriller that explores the psychological devastation caused by a missing child and the resulting fragility and dynamics between family members, the police, and the community at large. And they’ll do anything to stop Erika from finding the truth.įrom the million-copy bestselling author of The Girl in the Ice and The Night Stalker, comes the third heart-stopping book in the Detective Erika Foster series.īrilliantly plotted, incredibly captivating, and definitely a must-read of 2016!

Someone who doesn’t want this case solved. Is the suspect someone close to home? Someone is keeping secrets. Erika soon realises this is going to be one of the most complex and demanding cases she has ever taken on. A woman plagued by her failure to find Jessica.

The missing girl who made headline news twenty-six years ago.Īs Erika tries to piece together new evidence with the old, she must dig deeper and find out more about the fractured Collins family and the original detective, Amanda Baker. The remains are quickly identified as seven-year-old Jessica Collins. From the thick sludge the drugs are recovered, but so is the skeleton of a young child. When Detective Erika Foster receives a tip-off that key evidence for a major narcotics case was stashed in a disused quarry on the outskirts of London, she orders for it to be searched. She would lie still and undisturbed for many years but above her on dry land, the nightmare was just beginning.

Dark water by robert bryndza