Shadows of the past

Robert Bryndza

Robert Bryndza is the author of many bestsellers, with over five million copies sold in English alone. He is best known for his thrillers. His debut in the crime thriller genre, The Girl in the Ice, was published in the UK in February 2016 and sold one million copies in its first five months. The book became number one on Amazon in the UK, USA, and Australia. To date, it has sold over 2 million copies in English and has been translated into 29 other languages. After The Girl in the Ice, where Robert introduced Detective Erika Foster, he continued the series with The Night Stalker, Dark Water, Last Breath, Cold Blood, Deadly Secrets, and Fatal Witness, which also became global bestsellers. Robert then focused on a new thriller series featuring protagonist Kate Marshall, a former police officer turned private investigator. The very first book in the series, Nine Elms, became a number one bestseller on Amazon in the US, reached the top five on Amazon in the UK, and was subsequently published in 15 other countries. He followed up this success with further Kate Marshall cases: Shadow Sands, Darkness Falls, and Devil's Way. In the autumn of 2023, he decided to release a standalone thriller. Fear the Silence became the biggest literary surprise of 2023, and readers fell in love with the dark psychological thriller and its mysterious plot. In the book, Robert introduced the protagonist, Maggie, a successful doctor who must find out why her husband died before she herself becomes a victim of 'unfortunate accidents'. In addition to crime series and psychological thrillers, Robert also writes in the lighter genre of romantic comedy. So far, three volumes of the diaries of the protagonist, the slightly zany Coco, who hasn't given up on her dreams even after turning forty, have been published in Czech: The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard, Coco Pinchard's Big Fat Tipsy Wedding, and Coco Pinchard, The Consequences of Love and Sex.