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Robert Bryndza

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Crime, Thriller, Humor and Comedy

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June 2012

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Robert Bryndza is an international bestselling author, best known for his page-turning crime and thriller novels, which have sold over seven 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 30 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 Nethe Robert Bryndza is an international bestselling author, best known for his page-turning crime and thriller novels, which have sold over seven 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 30 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 six 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, is the seventh Erika Foster novel.

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, the third book is, Darkness Falls and the fourth, Devil’s Way has just been published.

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.

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	The Girl in the Ice (Detective Erika Foster, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 88,919 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Stalker (DCI Erika Foster, #2) 4.16 avg rating — 33,435 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nine Elms (Kate Marshall, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 30,154 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Water (DCI Erika Foster, #3) 4.25 avg rating — 26,123 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Breath (Dedective Erika Foster, #4) 4.30 avg rating — 22,030 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Blood (Detective Erika Foster, #5) 4.25 avg rating — 18,289 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadly Secrets (Detective Erika Foster #6) 4.32 avg rating — 16,504 ratings — published 2018 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Sands (Kate Marshall, #2) 4.21 avg rating — 13,933 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fatal Witness (Detective Erika Foster, #7) 4.35 avg rating — 13,153 ratings — published 2022 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3) 4.26 avg rating — 11,498 ratings — published 2021 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Pre-order my NEW crime thriller!

Happy New Year! I hope 2026 is off to a great start for you.

I’m very excited to finally share some book news with you. My next novel, The Quiet Kill, is a brand-new stand-alone crime thriller, CLICK HERE to pre-order now.

If you enjoy dark, twisty crime stories that keep you guessing, I think this one might be for you.

Paperback and audiobook pre-orders will be coming soon, and I’ll be sure to let Read more of this blog post »

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Detective Erika Foster (9 books)
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Kate Marshall (5 books)
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Coco Pinchard (3 books)
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Robert Bryndza made a comment on Pre-order my NEW crime thriller! " Hi Karen, thank you. And, yes, more Erika and Kate books are planned, I'm just about to start writing the next Kate Marshall, book 6 - Rob x ...more "
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Robert Bryndza made a comment on Kate Marshall returns " Victoria wrote: "Brilliant book I was lucky to have a copy from Netgalley and couldn’t put it down. I need more x" Thank you :) x ...more "
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“The secret of blending in, is don’t try to. Everyone is so fucking self-obsessed.”
― Robert Bryndza, The Girl in the Ice

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“TO:rosencrantzpinchard@gmai.com: Something's wrong! The house is shaking!

TO:rosencrantzpinchard@gmail.com: Well can you turn down the volume on Star Trek:Voyager? I thought we were having an earthquake when the Enterprise hit Warp speed. Why did you let me sleep until nearly one?”
― Robert Bryndza, The Not So Secret Emails Of Coco Pinchard

tags: awesome, email, funny, star-trek-warp-speed

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“You're going up against powerful people here, and the odds are not in your favour.'
'Sounds very Hunger Games...”
― Robert Bryndza, The Girl in the Ice

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“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

tags: crazy, funny, words

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“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
― Harold Pinter, Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics

tags: life

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“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”
― Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

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“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

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“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

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message 6: by Sandra

Apr 16, 2014 07:29PM

Hey Robert :) Thanks for putting your work out there for all of us to enjoy. I look forward to reading the latest installment in the Coco series!

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message 5: by Ana

Jun 13, 2013 03:17PM

Hi Robert, thanks for the friend invite. The Not So Secret Emails Of Coco Pinchard is already on my kindle and hope to read it soon. Sounds like a perfect summer read:)

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message 4: by Robert

Oct 03, 2012 09:29AM