I'd hate to work with Erika Foster but she does make for a really good character! In the way only she can Erika railroads her way onto a gruesome we case after she spots links that everyone else has missed

Absolutely brilliant, have read all the book's in the series and they just get better and better, cannot wait to see what happens next!

Just brilliant! Robert Bryndza has done it again! I have loved every Erika book, the story and the characters staying with me for weeks afterwards, and each time, with each book, I think it is the best ever and I wonder how the author will surpass it and yet, each time, without fail, he DOES! Like all the previous books, this one too is addictive and unputdownable, the story staying with me each time I put the book down, urging me to go back to it. This is a perfectly executed masterpiece of a book and I absolutely cannot wait for the next Erika story.

This is a straight forward police procedural with DCI Erika Foster investigating a serial killer. It is a race between a crack team of investigators and a man really getting his crazy on. I did not read the Erika Foster book before this one, but I assume she has gone into self-exile from MIT rather than work for Superintendent Sparks. Her exile is solved in a dramatic and possibly satisfying way.
Foster accompanies DI Peterson to the scene when he is called out on a body of a young woman found in a dumpster. After being kicked off the scene by Sparks, Foster does some research and discovers this is not the first woman killed in such a manner.
The investigation shoots into high gear when first one, then another woman is taken after Erika has discovered a pattern.
Not to far into the book we are taken into the world of crazy inhabited by the villain. You will want to take a shower, or at least rinse off after each chapter with him.
There is an exploration and a reminder of how involved we can be, yet so careless with our social media lives.
This is a really outstanding book. By straight-forward, I did not want to imply it wasn't exciting. Because is is exciting. Very. So frustrating to see each wrong turn the MIT takes. Just like real life. The characters with their support of each other, their petty jealousies and their professionalism are satisfying to read about. At no time did the story lag, the pacing very good. DCI Foster is slowly coming to terms with her loss and her need to rejoin life, while DCI Hudson is discovering you might not want it all when it is offered.
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for this advance review copy.

This is the fourth book in the Erika Foster series. You don’t need to read the books in order, but obviously not only does it help to understand the story, but why would you not want to read this fantastic set of books.

A young woman’s body is found dumped and DCI Erika Foster is first on the scene. The only problem is she is no longer on the Murder Investigation Team and is treading on Superintendent Sparks’ toes, which doesn’t go down very well. She is eager to get back on the team, but can she get around Sparks first? In the meantime Erika is ‘working’ the case on her own. She finds a link to another unsolved murder of a young woman found dumped. Is there a serial killer on the loose dumping their bodies around the city?

I was so excited for this book. And when I say so excited, I mean jumping up and down excited! Robert Bryndza has leapfrogged up to the top place in my list of favourite crime authors after reading his other books. The first three books were amazing, and this one was no different, if not better. I love Erika’s character and in each book you get to see more and more of Erika’s personal side. I also love the way she’s so gutsy and headstrong and if she says she’s going to find the killer, then she will! The relationships with her team also make you release that not only is she a really good boss but a really well respected boss. Unlike some books, there are no members of her team who she doesn’t get on with, although the same can’t be said with her superiors – sparks certainly fly with Superintendent Sparks!

This book was absolutely fantastic!! The story gripped me from page one and didn’t let up until the end. I love the way the killer is revealed quite early on. There’s no ‘it was him, it was him, it was him’. You know who it is, you just want to see how Erika and the team work it out. It’s also interesting how social media is brought into it. It highlights the dangers of trusting people online – are people really who they say they are?

I really didn’t want this book to end – well in a way I did as I wanted to find out what happened, but in another way I didn’t as this would mean that I have no more Erika until the next book. I’ve so enjoyed the last couple of days, reading my book whenever I can even if it’s just to squeeze in a couple of pages, and now my life will become empty again until the next instalment – please say there will be a next instalment!! This has been the best series of books I’ve read in a very long time – long may they continue!!

If you’re looking for a gritty police procedural crime thriller, then I can highly recommend this book. If you’re going to buy this one, don’t forget to buy the others too!! Five stars (although if I could give it more I would!)

I absolutely loved this latest book in the Erica Foster series - the books just get better and better!! A young woman is found murdered and dumped in a rubbish bin. Erica is no longer on the Murder Investigation \team but is desperate to assist with the investigation. She is 'nearly' in a relationship with one of her colleagues but has huge guilt still over betraying the memory of her dead husband.

This book is fast paced and highly recommended.

This is a fantastic read. Fourth in the series the sub plot lets you catch up with the characters you have already met but equally this book could easily stand alone as a thumping good read. Great main plot and absorbing writing which grabs you from the off . Excellent addition to the series

If you haven't picked up any of Robert Bryndza's other books in the Erika Foster series then stop right there and go get a copy of The Girl in the Ice. You don't NEED to have read the other books to enjoy this one but they are so good that you really should!
The body of a young woman is found in a dumpster. She had been tortured and cast aside as rubbish. Erika Foster is one of the first police officers at the scene. Unfortunately she’s on the Special Projects team working out of Bromley and she is overstepping the mark just by being here. As she desperately tries to get herself a place on the murder investigation team she uncovers a similar murder from four months earlier.
Both women were found in dumpsters, they had the same head wounds and cuts and both had been killed by a slash to the femoral artery. Erika is convinced that they are now looking for a serial killer. As the team start to piece the story together and realise that the women have been stalked on social media it all starts to take on an even more sinister tone.
Back for the fourth outing are our favourite motley crew of detectives. The brilliantly named Kate Moss, the enigmatic Peterson desperate to get closer to Erika and sour old Sparks. By now they feel like old friends and the dynamic between them all is just fantastic.
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Detective Erika Foster is back! Young women are being abducted, tortured and then killed and their bodies left in rubbish dumpsters. Erika is at the dump site even though she's not part of the unit that will be investigating it and she comes up against Superintendent Sparks again. It is then agreed that she will assist with the case. Along the way Erika tries but fails to save a colleagues life, continues to struggle with her feelings for another colleague and the guilt for what she perceives as betraying her dead husband and has to watch a close colleague get injured when he and she have finally located the killer's latest victim. Fantastic read - best book in this series so far. Highly recommended.

Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and Robert Bryndza for the opportunity to read and review this book.

The latest instalment in the DCI Erika Foster series. Brilliant, can't put it down book. In this one, the police track a serial abductor and murderer. I love the way the author develops the characters and relationships. I hope this series is continued.

Full review to be published online in early April.

LAST BREATH is the fourth book in Robert Bryndza’s highly entertaining and creepy “Detective Erika Foster” series. Erika is evolving well, both on the job and in her personal life. I find these kinds of mystery/thriller investigation books gratifying because of the complexity of character and crime a good author can create, as is done here. The killer here is a sad, sorry excuse of a man; lazy and deciding that women have to suffer for his own lack of self-confidence. If he had taken a bit of better care of his own self he might have gotten more attention from women. Unfortunately, he behaved flat-out creepy manner, and was obsessed with overly young women who he felt should be attracted to him as he truly wants to be, but cannot find the courage to be. The reader is led to feel sorry for him, and to wonder why his parents didn’t get this obviously ‘off’ man some help when he was younger.
The book is also quite interesting in how the author uses social media as a tool for both the rise and fall of the killer’s activities. It really brings home the fear of the dangerous people using the internet to their advantage and how it could be anyone, someone you wouldn't pay any mind to. This book also reminds me to be wary of strangers met both online and in real life. What we do and say online and in social media can have serious repercussions, often in ways we have never even imagined.

It was also good to see the relationship of Erika and James Peterson finally beginning to develop into something more meaningful. It was great to have their relationship show some progression. Erika is a strong, independent, and successful woman; a woman who has faced and overcome many hurdles on the police force to get where she is. LAST BREATH sends a clear message to the readers about the author's opinion of women, which is great to read. More male authors should write about strong women who are empowered both on the job and in their personal life.

Detective Erika Foster may have found the tortured body of a young woman in a dumpster, but it’s not her case. While it’s clear the team assigned to the homicide doesn’t want Erika’s help, she make the connection between the body in the dumpster and an unsolved murder four months earlier, both women have identical wounds. The killer is selecting his victims online, women looking for romance end up finding a killer instead. The internet is vast, how will Erika track down this elusive killer before he strikes again? Bryndza is a man who can write a strong female character. The Erika Foster series is one of the best police procedurals series out there

This is by far my favorite of the Erica storiespecially. We get to see a more human side to her in spite of all that's going on.

In this book a killer selects girls who would never look twice at him and then stalks, kidnaps and tortures them.

There is a fantastic amount of suspense in this book. It's scenes are well set and characters really draw you in.

I'm looking forward to the next book xx

Last Breath has to be one of my most anticipated reads of 2017. One of a few anyway! I love this series and have been dying to meet up with Erika again.

Erika is very much an ice queen. Due to the loss of her husband she has built a very high wall around her and is extremely reluctant to let anyone in. I have to say though, in this book I felt that the high wall is slowly starting to crumble and I'm very much enjoying seeing this new side to Erika. Don't worry though as the feisty side we have grown to love is still very much present, as you will find out for yourselves!

Erika is not enjoying her new role and is determined to get involved on a case where she is clearly not welcome. Being the strong willed person that she is she soon gets her way. I have to say the case they are working on is a very gruesome one and it's very much a race against time in capturing the monster who is killing the young women.

I love how the reader knows who the killer is and it's a case of waiting for the police to discover their identity. I have to say it makes for some gripping reading and felt slightly like a game of cat and mouse. The author always manages to bring something different to each novel making each one feel very unique.

Last Breath is a gripping, nail biting ride of a read. I seriously can not get enough of the authors books and now that I have finished this one I have the long agonising wait for the next one. Brilliant series, brilliant book by a brilliant author, what else can I say!

That was an absolutely fantastic book. Each of Robert's books have been brilliant but this one was an absolute cracker.

Well written as always, descriptive and heart pounding. I was hooked from page one.

Erika is a great character and I am enjoying how her life is unfolding and being portrayed.

This would have 6 stars if that was possible.

I will always applaud for more Erika Foster #QueenDetective. I love her so much, she is one of my best fictional characters. And in this book Last Breath, I even enjoyed reading about her more than ever. I love how we got to see more into the person that she is an experience a lot more of her soft side and I think it's safe to say she's finally beginning to live her life again.

I love crime solving books because it is tasking and such a complex and beautiful thing to create. I despise our killer, a very sad excuse of a man, who is lazy and decides women have to suffer for his lack of self-confidence. In total honesty, I feel like, if he had actually tried to keep fit and instead of moping and whining about his outer appearance, put in an effort to look good, he would have hated himself less and may have gotten second glances from women, but he behaved flat-out creepy, and was obsessed with young women of a certain age, who I think he felt should be attracted to the him, he truly wanted to be, but couldn't find the courage to be. I never once felt bad for him, but his parents who should have taken him to see a therapist because of the trauma he suffered in his childhood.

I hate when I read about how social media can actually lead to harming you, especially when you share too much and this book really had me thinking about my online presence, my trail, I bet I have a bazillion of accounts that I have opened and can't even remember. Anyone can get catfished. And it really brings home the fear of the dangerous people using the internet to their advantage and how it could be anyone, someone you wouldn't pay any mind to. This book also reminds me to be nice to strangers I meet and honestly, it's always at the back of my mind, I don't know who is a psychopath and who could hurt me, so I'm always nice and cautious, not giving away any look that can be read as offensive only when extremely warranted.

Back to Erik Foster, so her and James Peterson, can I get a hallelujah! I'm so glad to see their relationship develop into something with more meaning and I can only hope for good things for them in the future, Erika really needs it, super badly and this book made me realise that. She's a strong independent and very successful woman—being a woman, one of the best detectives in the police force, it's quite tough for her and she has a lot of stones, rocks, hurdles and trouble she faces that if her sex was opposite she wouldn't have faced. So this book sends a clear message to the readers about the author's opinion of women, which is great, I love seeing and reading about women empowerment. We aren't fragile meek creatures.

Finally, after working teeth and bone, the book ends on quite the happy note, I mean I knew human who would not be named one would die and also human who would not be named two would be shot—I'm a very good book detective myself. The book was very good, I loved the chase, I couldn't wait for them to discover clues, for our predator to slip up (they always get over confident after awhile of getting away with their death invoking shenanigans) and get sloppy. But always Erika swoops in a saves the day, I was so happy when they finally caught him, I wish I could know his psych evaluation because something is clearly more than wrong with him.

I love Moss, bless her soul, she had me in stitches in this book and I love the relationship that Erika, Moss and Peterson share, it's a wonderful thing. I'm glad we saw more of Dr Isaac and that heavenly advice he gave Erika, she really needed to hear it and I hope to read more about John and what's going on with Commander Marsh. It's especially fun, reading about places I've been to and lived at even, so I love this book.

I couldn't put down this book at all, right from the moment I got it (maybe because it's one of my most anticipated books of the year, I need more by the way—how many times I've said that?) Shoutout to Bookouture and Robert Bryndza for this wonderful opportunity and immediately approving my request via NetGalley earlier (it's like past 12 a.m. as I'm writing this so it's a new day) it didn't even take up to five minutes to get the ARC. Thank you for the follow backs on twitter, it really made my day and getting the book of course! Bookouture's authors are wonderful, especially in the Mystery/Thriller/Crime Solving genre.