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  • The Girl in the Ice

  • Detective Erika Foster Crime Thriller, Book 1
  • By: Robert Bryndza
  • Narrated by: Jan Cramer
  • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (529 ratings)

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The Girl in the Ice

By: Robert Bryndza
Narrated by: Jan Cramer
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Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice...She is not the only one.

When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation.

The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect the dots between the murder and the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled, hands bound, and dumped in water around London.

What dark secrets is the girl in the ice hiding?

As Erika inches closer to uncovering the truth, the killer is closing in on Erika.

The last investigation Erika led went badly wrong...resulting in the death of her husband. With her career hanging by a thread, Erika must now battle her own personal demons as well as a killer more deadly than any she's faced before. But will she get to him before he strikes again?

A pause-resisting thriller packed with suspense. If you like Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, and Karin Slaughter, discover Rob Bryndza's new series today.

©2016 Robert Bryndza (P)2016 Bookouture

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Cringe worthy

Erica, the main character, acts so ridiculously you hope she gets knocked off. Not worth the time or money.

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Frustrating

I enjoyed Jan Cramer's narration of Angela Mason's Kim Sone books, so I thought I'd try this.
I found the story incredibly frustrating. The behaviour of the protagonist is all over the place. The premise of her returning to such a case off the back of a long leave -let alone having a job if she had screwed up as badly as they claim - seems utterly ridiculous to me. Not a believable or particularly gripping story.

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will be returning this one

the story could be better represented with a different narrator. This narrator (regardless of author) makes all the female characters sound hysterical, dominating and aggressive through overacting. it's a real turn off.

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Narrator seems to yell

The Girl in the Ice didn’t engage me as much as many other readers.

The book starts with a murder and then the gruesome discovery of the victim, socialite Andrea Douglas-Brown, whose body is found, obviously, in the ice. Andrea’s father holds a peerage, is extremely wealthy and consequently wields political clout. DCI Erika Foster is assigned to the case and, right from the start, she clashes with all and sundry involved with the case.

Perhaps my biggest issue with the book was that I thought Bryndza threw in too much conflict between Erika and other characters until it all ended up slightly silly and unbelievable. I mean, the woman couldn’t even go to a pub or past the station’s front desk without getting into a fight and/or slapping someone.

She displays a total lack of respect for her Super which was unnecessary to the plot. I don’t think you’d get to be DCI by deliberately ignoring your Super’s instructions constantly.

The tension between Erika and the DCI originally assigned to the case was also unnecessary and way over the top. Being such a high profile case, I think all police would know there might be more senior officers brought into assist or, just like in this book, take over. In this situation, they might be snarky towards each other now and then but the straight out combative stance the two characters took in the novel made me roll my eyes on more than one occasion.

Then there was the conflict between Erika and the victim’s family. Actually, this suspended all belief. If the communication had broken down to such an extent as portrayed in this book, some sort of liaison officer would have been dispatched surely. Or else the police would solely focus their investigation on the family, seeing as their attitude towards Erika was hindering justice and making them look like prime suspects.

It just seemed incredibly silly to focus on the characters’ constant bickering instead of the crime. In fact, with all her lack of respect and argumentative attitude, I found it really difficult to connect with Erika. I wasn’t cheering her on as I assume I should have, seeing as she’s the lead character. I didn’t feel much empathy for her. Her sad back story also left me cold.

The book was quite long and at times I felt it went round and round in circles. Some scenes could have been condensed or cut altogether. For example, we got pages and pages of scenes featuring the guy who found Andrea’s body. Totally unnecessary.

Bryndza did have some great diversity in Erika’s underlings and I suppose I'd like to read more about them.

I did ‘read’ the book via the audio format and am now wondering if it was the narrator who has made me feel like the characters were at each other’s throats the whole time. She did, after all, have Erika kind of yelling every piece of dialogue.

I guess I will still pick up the next in the series but I might read it the conventional way to see if I soften towards Erika.

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not bad at all

Very gripping to begin with, though the ending seemed kind of rushed.
Overall, it was an alright read.

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The reader was great

I thought the reader was very good with all the different characters. The story wasn’t as good as I was hoping ,but I was listening to it quite late and kept falling asleep. So, I guess that didn’t help !
I will listen to a few more stories and come back at a later time … maybe listen during daytime .

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Excellent story and narration

Loved it and have downloaded the next one! I hope he writes many more with the same pace and twists

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What A Great New Series and a brilliant narrator!!

I really enjoyed this first book featuring Erika Foster, she is a tough and smart DCI. Erika does need to leave more of her past in the past but overall a great novel. Jan Cramer is an amazing narrator. Thoroughly recommend a listen.

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Enjoyable listen, kept me listening

Great narration and story. I will definitely be getting the second book in the series

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ENJOYABLE

loved it found easy to listen to . i enjoyed it because i could relate to differnt place they talked about

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