Review: Last Breath by Robert Bryndza (audio)

Title:Last Breath

Author:Robert Bryndza

Series:Detective Erika Foster, #4

Narrator:Jan Cramer

Published:April 2017, Bookouture

Length:9 hours 5 minutes

Source:Personal copy via Audible

He’s your perfect date. You’re his next victim.

When
the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes
swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster
is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is, this time, it’s
not her case.

While she fights to secure her place on the
investigation team, Erika can’t help but get involved and quickly finds a
link to the unsolved murder of a woman four months earlier. Dumped in a
similar location, both women have identical wounds – a fatal incision
to their femoral artery.

Stalking his victims online, the killer
is preying on young pretty women using a fake identity. How will Erika
catch a murderer who doesn’t seem to exist?

Then another girl is
abducted while waiting for a date. Erika and her team must get to her
before she becomes another dead victim, and, come face to face with a
terrifyingly sadistic individual.

Gripping, tense and impossible
to put down, Last Breath will have you on the edge of your seat, racing
to the final dramatic page.

My thoughts:This is the 4th book in Robert Bryndza’s Detective Erika Foster series and I absolutely love this series…it’s dark and twisted and each book keeps me on my toes the entire time! Each book leaves me breathless and desperately wanting to get my hands on the next one.

One of my favorite parts of this series is the character development we get throughout, which is why I think it is so important to read this series in order! You really get to know not only Erika, but her team as well. I think Robert really shines in this area – he has gone to great lengths to build up these characters and continues to do so with each book. 

In this latest book, Erika who has been removed from the Murder Investigation Team, manages to finagle things so that she is Senior Investigating Officer on the latest murder case and is able to hand-pick her team…and obviously picks Moss, Peterson, Crane and McGorry – the usual gang! I love this – this is such an Erika move!!! 

Early on in the book, we find out who the killer is, so most of the book is actually spent watching Erika and her crazy tactics in trying to catch said killer. She is sometimes upstoppable – willing to go to any means necessary at times for results. By knowing who the killer is, we the reader are able to get inside his head – which is quite frightening.

This book is nonstop full of action and will leave you breathless so many times, especially the last quarter of the book! There are quite a few twists and turns and the tension is high throughout. It’s one of my favorite series and now I am counting the days til the next book comes out…

Audio thoughts:Jan Cramer is just brilliant with this narration – she does such a great job with these voices, making these characters come alive. I love listening to her and love listening to this series! Please, please, please continue to narrate this series for as long as it goes on – to me, you are Erika Foster and the rest of the gang!!!

Books in this series: 

1. The Girl in the Ice
2. The Night Stalker
3. Dark Water 
4. Last Breath 
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