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When school girl Janey Macklin disappeared from the seedy side of London in 1988, her case went cold, with no body and no witnesses. Now, thirty years later, private detective Kate Marshall has been approached by a true crime podcast producer with an intriguing question they need her help answering: What if Janey was killed by Peter Conway, the notorious Nine Elms Cannibal?
The contract would be the most lucrative of Kate's career, but it comes with a price of its own, dredging up a sordid, complicated past that she would sooner forget . . . one that the paparazzi are determined to keep in the headlines.
As Kate and her partner, Tristan, scour King's Cross for clues, no two leads seem to point in the same direction. The last person to see Janey alive has already been tried, convicted, and then acquitted of her murder, Peter Conway is in poor health and fading fast, and the line between their clients and their suspects is blurring with each new revelation about the case.
With little to work from, can Tristan and Kate wade through clandestine phone calls, decades-old secrets, and deteriorating DNA evidence to solve Janey's murder, or will she remain one of London's countless missing persons, forever lost to time?
A brilliantly gripping thriller from the global multi-million-copy bestselling author, The Lost Victim will have you hooked from the first page and holding your breath all the way to the heart-stopping ending.
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My Review
This is book #5 of the Kate Marshall series. Whilst it is part of a series it can be read as a standalone book, although I would recommend reading the books in series order for better understanding of the storyline. The storyline takes us back to 1988 when teenage Janey Macklin goes missing. Fast forward thirty years, and we find Kate and Tristan, her partner in their Private Investigator business, asked to look into Janey's cold case for a potential podcast story. The investigation takes Kate back to London, where she was a young police officer many years before. She also discovers that Peter Conway, her former boss, lover and the notorious Nine Elms Cannibal may have been involved in Janey's disappearance.
I've read every book of this series, and whilst they were all great, this one was definitely my favourite so far! I like Kate's character and despite all the problems she's had in her life, she seems the strongest and most settled that we've seen her - that is until Peter Conway comes back into her life again. I love her relationship with Tristan and they work so well together in this book. Tristan is definitely becoming more confident as an investigator as the series goes on. The storyline flowed along well, setting the scene in the seedier areas of London's King Cross both in 1988 and thirty years on. I loved the locations in London and found the differences over the years really interesting.
The storyline twists and turns while they try to work out what happened to Janey. There are plenty of suspects and scenarios to ponder over and I was kept in suspense before the big reveal. I loved having Peter Conway back, despite him being the epitome of evil who sent shivers down my spine every time. The tension throughout was kept high and the investigation is definitely fast paced with plenty of surprises. This author is definitely one of my favourites, and every book he writes is amazing - this one is no exception! A brilliant read which will keep you hooked until the very last page. Would definitely recommend.
The Author
Robert Bryndza is an international bestselling author, best known for his page-turning crime and thriller novels, which have sold over five million copies.
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. Fatal Witness, the seventh Erika Foster novel, has just been published.
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.
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.
You can find out more about Robert and his books at http://www.robertbryndza.com
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