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Browse Robert Bryndza books in order, with short summaries, series background, and simple where-to-start tips for every major series.

Last updated: July 3, 2026

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Bitch Hollywood

by Robert Bryndza

2012

A sharp comedy about the entertainment world, where ambition, image, and bad behavior keep colliding. Bryndza uses Hollywood chaos as fuel for big personalities, quick mishaps, and social satire.

Lost in Crazytown

by Robert Bryndza

2012

A fast, funny look at Los Angeles and the madness circling Hollywood, where big ambitions meet culture clash and everyday chaos. Bryndza turns showbusiness frustration into broad, lively comedy.

The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard

by Robert Bryndza

2012

Coco Pinchard turns forty thinking life is finally lining up, until her husband cheats, her novel flops, and her son goes off the rails. Through sharp, funny emails to friends, she tries to rebuild from the wreckage.

A Very Coco Christmas

by Robert Bryndza

2013

In 1985, eighteen-year-old Coco comes home from university for Christmas, newly in love and newly serious about writing. Family pressure, snow, and one chaotic holiday meal set up a warm and very funny prequel.

Coco Pinchard's Big Fat Tipsy Wedding

by Robert Bryndza

2013

Fresh from divorce and newly happy with Adam, Coco thinks life is settling down at last. Then he disappears on the day they are meant to move in together, and her search for answers uncovers a life-changing secret.

Coco Pinchard, the Consequences of Love and Sex

by Robert Bryndza

2014

Coco is remarried, successful, and sure she has learned from her first disaster of a marriage. Then family problems pile up, old enemies resurface, and at forty-four she discovers she is pregnant.

Coco Pinchard's Must-Have Toy Story

by Robert Bryndza

2015

It is December 1992, and Coco is determined to find the year's impossible toy, Tracy Island, for four-year-old Rosencrantz. Between work, family, and Christmas madness, the hunt becomes its own comic disaster.

Miss Wrong and Mr Right

by Robert Bryndza

2015

Natalie Love runs a glamorous London theatre and thinks she has left her small-town past behind. When the man she once abandoned at the altar reappears in the West End, her tidy love life turns into chaos.

Dark Water

by Robert Bryndza

2016

A search for hidden drug evidence in a quarry uncovers the bones of Jessica Collins, a seven-year-old who vanished decades earlier. Erika Foster digs into family secrets and old failures while someone nearby is determined to keep the case buried.

The Girl in the Ice

by Robert Bryndza

2016

When a woman is found frozen beneath the ice in a South London park, Erika Foster uncovers links to earlier killings and a powerful family. It is a tough opening case for a detective still reeling from her husband's death.

The Night Stalker

by Robert Bryndza

2016

During a brutal London heatwave, single men are being suffocated in their own beds by a killer who watches before striking. Erika Foster must stop the Night Stalker before the body count, and the danger to her, climbs higher.

Cold Blood

by Robert Bryndza

2017

When a suitcase holding a dismembered body washes up on the Thames, Erika realizes it matches an earlier murder. As the case widens into a hunt for multiple killers, the danger reaches painfully close to her team.

Last Breath

by Robert Bryndza

2017

A young woman is found tortured in a dumpster, and Erika links her death to an earlier unsolved murder. The killer hides behind fake identities and online dating, and another victim may already be in his sights.

Deadly Secrets

by Robert Bryndza

2018

A young woman is found dead outside her home, frozen to the street, and a series of local attacks points Erika toward a figure in a gas mask. The deeper she digs, the more the case tangles with buried secrets and personal pain.

Nine Elms

by Robert Bryndza

2019

Fifteen years after catching the Nine Elms serial killer, disgraced ex-detective Kate Marshall faces a copycat who knows the old case too well. With Tristan Harper beside her, she fights for answers, and for survival.

Shadow Sands

by Robert Bryndza

2020

Diving in a reservoir with her son, Kate Marshall finds the body of a teenage boy and starts questioning the official story. The trail leads into disappearances, local legends, and someone determined to keep the moorland secrets hidden.

Darkness Falls

by Robert Bryndza

2021

Kate Marshall and Tristan Harper take on a cold case involving a journalist who vanished after exposing a political scandal. Old files, missing men, and a new pattern suggest she may have been hunting a serial killer.

Fatal Witness

by Robert Bryndza

2022

Erika stumbles onto the murder of a rising true-crime podcaster whose research into attacks on female students has been wiped clean. When a second victim turns up, she knows someone is killing to erase the story.

Devil's Way

by Robert Bryndza

2023

Recovering from a near-fatal riptide, Kate agrees to investigate the long-ago disappearance of a three-year-old boy on Dartmoor. What begins as a favor turns darker when a murdered social worker and a family's lies come into focus.

Fear the Silence

by Robert Bryndza

2023

Maggie's husband is found dead on a Croatian island, but she refuses to believe the police verdict of suicide. Back at their remote holiday home, she uncovers a hidden letter and a past someone will kill to protect.

Lethal Vengeance

by Robert Bryndza

2024

The suspicious death of a politician is quietly buried, until two more famous men die in the same grotesque way. Erika Foster follows the trail into a scandal of disguise, sex work, and very powerful people.

The Lost Victim

by Robert Bryndza

2024

A true-crime podcast brings Kate Marshall back to a 1988 disappearance that may connect to the Nine Elms Cannibal. With little evidence and too many conflicting stories, she and Tristan dig into decades-old secrets around King's Cross.

Chasing Shadows

by Robert Bryndza

2025

A body in an empty flat leads Erika to a parcel locker, old cocaine traces, and a man she believes murdered her husband. Pushed off the case and battling trauma, she launches a secret investigation into the past.

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The Quiet Kill

by Robert Bryndza

2026

In winter 1987, rookie detective Jamie Day arrives in London eager to prove himself and finds a dismembered body on his first day in plain clothes. Soon he is part of a hunt for a serial killer targeting young men at night.

Coming Soon

The Burning Lie

by Robert Bryndza

2027

An upcoming Jamie Day thriller that returns to Robert Bryndza's 1980s London crime series. Public story details are still limited, but it follows Jamie into another major case after The Quiet Kill.

Where should I start?

If you want hard-driving police procedurals: The Girl in the IceThe Night StalkerDark Water
If you prefer private investigator mysteries: Nine ElmsShadow SandsDarkness Falls
If you want a stand-alone thriller: Fear the Silence
If you want funny, messy romantic comedy: The Not So Secret Emails of Coco PinchardCoco Pinchard's Big Fat Tipsy Wedding

Author bio

Robert Bryndza was born in Lowestoft, England, and has spent much of his adult life moving between different kinds of storytelling. He studied at Aberystwyth University, trained at the Guildford School of Acting, and worked in theatre before novels took over. He now lives in Slovakia with his husband Ján, but there is still something very British about the shape of his fiction, especially the way ordinary places can suddenly turn tense, funny, or strange.

The writing impulse started early. He has remembered weekend mornings when he and his sister sat on the end of their parents' bed with tea and biscuits while their father made up serial stories for them on the spot. One cliffhanger rolled into the next, and those home-spun tales seem to have shown him the pull of storytelling long before publishing looked like a real job.

In his twenties, though, writing was not the obvious path. Drama school and acting came first, along with comedy sketches and stage work. A play he wrote for the Edinburgh Festival became the real turning point. It pushed him from performing other people's words toward building his own stories from the ground up.

It still was not a clean or easy leap.

After time in Los Angeles, he moved to Slovakia in late 2011 with Ján and came close to giving up on writing altogether. He was looking for work as an English teacher when Ján urged him to turn their odd Hollywood experiences into a novel. Bryndza wrote hard for months, Ján translated the book into Slovak, and that translation of Lost in Crazytown became Bryndza's first published book. A second Slovak deal soon followed for The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard, and the two of them started building a writing career together, one manuscript, one translation, and one risky decision at a time. It is a good reminder that writing careers often look a lot less tidy from the inside.

That small run of luck gave him room to keep going.

The early Coco books introduced a very different side of his work. The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard, Coco Pinchard's Big Fat Tipsy Wedding, and Miss Wrong and Mr Right are funny, messy romantic comedies full of family aggravation, bad timing, and people trying to hold onto dignity while life does its worst. Readers tend to like the warmth underneath the jokes. Even when his characters are making a complete hash of things, Bryndza writes them with affection, and that keeps the comedy from feeling slick or cruel.

Then came crime fiction, and The Girl in the Ice changed everything. That novel introduced Detective Erika Foster, a hard-driving London investigator carrying deep personal loss, and it was followed by books like The Night Stalker, Last Breath, and Chasing Shadows. Later, Bryndza built a second crime line around Kate Marshall, beginning with Nine Elms, and also wrote the stand-alone thriller Fear the Silence. Across these books, he returns to flawed investigators, buried histories, difficult families, and the way old violence keeps echoing into the present. The pace is quick, but the emotional bruises matter too.

His working life now sounds almost pleasantly ordinary. Dog walk first, then writing. He has described mornings in Slovakia spent crossing the park and river near home with Ján and their dogs before settling in to work, usually aiming for about 2,000 words a day. For someone who nearly walked away from writing, that steady routine feels hard won.

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