Fatal Witness is the latest installment in the Erika Foster (number 7) saga. It catches up with Erika in Blackheath where she has just purchased a do-er upper. She has just moved in and is on a late night walk for fish and Chips when she stumbles across a murder scene.

The story unfolds with Bryndza's usual thrilling story telling where the story unfolds with twists and turns and nothing and no one is really as they seem. It was great to get reacquainted with Erika once again. Erika is her usual self but is making in roads at moving on with her life. I have previously enjoyed this series very much and this book did not disappoint. After a bit of a hiatus, Erika is back and was as great as ever.

Fatal Witness continues to develop the characterisation of the members within Erika's team whilst also reintroducing a new character into her life. The team around Erika are an integral part of this series and there are many heart warming, disappointing, 'oh no' moments depending on what's happened! Erika certainly needs to prioritise herself a little bit!

Jan Cramer narrates the audiobook and I have listened to quite a few of her narrations - I always find that she takes a little getting used to but once I am settled into a book, I don't really notice (sadly, I can't quite put my finger on what it is I don't like about her narration).

I would thoroughly recommend this book as it continues Bryndza's Erika Foster series very well with a story which takes you on a roller coaster ride. It is an enjoyable police procedural series which doesn't require too much thought on the readers part. This book is on the grisly side, so may not be for the faint hearted but if you can manage a grisly story, this is a great read with some surprises along the way.


Thank you to the author, the publishers and Netgalley for my audiobook copy of this novel.

This is my first book from this author and I was looking forward to listening to the Audio version as I listen to an Audio book on a daily basis! The story was interesting enough but is not the best I have read/listened to. The plot is longer than necessary and the main protagonists are not enough developed in my opinion. The narration is well done but again will not be listed as my top Audio experience.
It is still an enjoyable storyline.

This author is new to me, so I started this audiobook not knowing what to expect, but with hopes of enjoying it, and I was not disappointed.
Narrated well with a pace that perfectly matched that of the storyline, this audiobook story held my attention from start to finish. Although I found some of the plot towards the end a little far fetched and unbelievable, on the whole it was a good storyline and had me wanting to listen to more. I am unsure whether this is part of a series but I will definitely be looking for further audiobooks by this author, in particular those that might feature the lead detective as I always try and choose books with strong female lead characters, and Erika is definitely one of those.

Erika Foster never fails!
An absolute gem of a tale, intriguing with many suspects to point the finger at yet, hold your breath, the ending will leave you stunned!
Robert Bryndza delivers another stunning blow to readers of the genre and if you were not hooked before, you will be now!

I listened to and read Fatal Witness. Both were excellent. I listen to audio books while performing other tasks but most times had to stop and just listen while this story moved forward. The narrator did an amazing job of keeping the emotions high and the suspense full bore. Bryndza wrote an excellent thriller but this audio book was an excellent experience too.

Ever since we met Det Erika Foster in THE GIRL IN THE ICE, she has gone through many trying times while working to bring some very nasty criminals to justice. Robert Bryndza has kept her character consistent while still developing her sense of justice a little more each book. Her skills have grown, just as they would in real life.

In FATAL WITNESS, Erika has changed jobs to help her heal from her emotional wounds. Her first night in her new home, as she walks home from having dinner out, a woman's scream brings her to a gruesome murder scene. Gruesome is an adjective used for many scenes in this book. Bryndza does not shy away from writing scenes so descriptive, you react strongly. Each of the murder scenes is definitely memorable. As Erika works with her team while still learning her new home and community, she will find her first imoressions were all surface deep and once scratched, they will never look the same again.

Robert Bryndza's writing is descriptive, realistic and sometimes gruesome but when building the back story for a murder thriller, he's 100% effective in grabbing your attention and keeping it. This is book #7 for Erika Foster but could be read as a stand alone. This book is GOOD! You should read all of them.

Whilst walking home from the chip shop, Detective Erika Foster hears a blood-curdling scream from an apartment block nearby. Inside she finds a distraught woman and the brutalised body of a young woman. All of the sudden Erika and her team are sucked into a murder investigation which involves mistaken identities (whoops), eccentric and confusing witnesses (choose your next door neighbours well), and a serial-rapist who may or may not have turned serial-killer.

This is the 7th book in the Erika Foster series and can easily be read as a standalone. It was my first Erika Foster book and I could easily follow along given the bits and pieces of information from her past. I did not feel like I was missing vital information.

I listened to the audiobook and got sucked into the story almost immediately. The narrator has a way with making each character easily distinguishable from another without it becoming a nuisance. The story itself was a true page-turner. It kept me guessing all the way through and made me gasp on multiple occasions with the many plot twists and details coming to light! Highly recommend this novel to lovers of crime, mystery, and thrillers!

I’d like to add a trigger warning though: The book starts on an incredibly violent note detailing a heinous murder. Not soon after the detectives also come across the bodies of decapitated cats. This happens in like the first 10% of the story, but I’d rather warn people about this before picking up this book. After all this is sort of calms down and most of the brutality depicted is less intense.

I received an ARC audiobook of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I had a listen to the audiobook of this through NetGalley and I had such a great time. This was the first book in this series that I have ever read, so new readers can rest assured you can pick it up from here.

I enjoyed it so much that I’m thinking of going back and reading from book one.

The mystery was very enjoyable, I loved the cast of characters and the attention to detail was superb. I don’t want to spoil a single thing because I read this completely blind, and I’m sure you’ll all enjoy doing the same.

If you want to read a book that has you guessing who did it until the very end, pick this up immediately!

Detective Erika Foster comes across her new case right outside of her newly bought home. The neighbor is found gruesomely murdered inside her apartment. After a thorough examination of the scene of the murder, the team finds multiple clues that eventually lead them to a shocking discovery.

It's a good book and had many great twists. Unfortunately while reading the book I found myself distracted and it took me a while to finish it. Great story with a lot of potentials, but I didn't feel the suspense. Nevertheless, I liked Erika's character and would like to read another sequel with this detective.

Detective Erika Foster is moving into a new home, in a lovely area but on the same day, she finds a crime scene. A young girl is brutally murdered and she is going to find out what happened.
I jumped from the book or the audiobook (while cooking and doing home chores) and it was nice.

This is the 7th book in the Detective Erika Foster series. As with all the previous books in this series, this book is written with a fantastic sense of dark humour and a brutal descriptiveness that packs a punch and narrated beautifully.
Erika finally has moved into her dreary cold fixer upper of a house. Walking home after a late dinner she hears screams coming from a nearby apartment block. A body has been discovered, brutally murdered. Vicky Clarke an up-and-coming podcast creator lies dead, her body discovered by her sister.
This book has it all mistaken identity, several suspects that flit I and out of the spotlight and most of all Erika’s team, Moss and Issac who bounce off each other with ease. Fantastically written with a shoal of red herrings that will keep you guessing up until that last minute. Highly recommend!

This is part of a series with Detective Erica Foster but does not rely on past books to understand. Essentially this involves the murder of a young woman in her home in a ghastly way. The description of the murder is quite visceral so be prepared, but after that it is a procedural. There is a long list of suspects as more is uncovered, with one of the more interesting being a neighbour who is a very odd fellow but seemingly protected by his brother who is the police commissioner.
This mystery unravels in the hands of a professional crime writer and does not disappoint.

It's been some years since the latest book in the Erika Foster series was released so I was happy to get the chance to read (and listen to) Fatal Witness book 7. As much as I liked to read about Kim Foster again, did I find the story to not really take off. It's an OK book, it just didn't rock my socks. It started off good with the murder of a true-crime podcaster. And, of course, nothing is as it seems to be and there are some devious characters that could be the killer. And throw in some personal stuff in Erika's life to complicate everything. I found the book to be a bit mediocre, to be honest, enjoyable to listen to but at the same time not spectacular or anything. The ending was ok, not truly exciting.

Hopefully, the next book in the series will be better.

Graphic and harrowing murder scenes and well drawn characters.

My first book by this author but there was sufficient background to bring me up to speed and I look forward to catching up with the rest of the series.

The narrator of this book was dreadful 😕, she started at the beginning of the book as being well over the top and dramatic but did tone it down a bit as the book went on! One thing she was good at was accents !

A fabulous audiobook version of this grand book! Detective Erika Foster is back in FATAL WITNESS – with a chilling new serial killer case in Robert Bryndza's multi-million bestselling crime thriller series!

We are back for the seventh installment of DCI Erika Foster!! 
As all the others, this book starts with a deliciously harrowing prologue of a murdered young lady. For me, the murder was a bit too convoluted and drawn out to really capture my imagination - I liked the mid-book twist but I sort of guessed the main angle of the book pretty early on so wasn't blown away at the end. 
I kind of felt like some of the background characters were the MVP of this book - Charles and Henrietta were such enigmas and I kind of wish there was more along their storylines rather than Vicky and the Bulgarians who didn't really capture my imagination. I also wasn't blown away with the continuation of Erika's story, apart from her brief encounter with a past flame, nothing really happened for her in this one. 
All this said, I still found Bryndza's writing captivating and I didn't find reading this book a chore at all. It set up a few cool things for Erika's next installment, and all the loose ends were tied up nicely.
NB: Netgalley provided me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I really wanted to like this book, but I had a hard time staying engaged with it. The characters are good, and the plot is interesting. I think it moved too slowly for me. I also struggled with the wording, it is British, so I had to look up some words. This may have added to the lack of engagement on my part.

I'm reading Robert Bryndza's work for the first time and I absolutely devoured it.
Now I have to go read the author's all previous works!
The narrator has did an amazing job with this title, I loved it!

My thanks to Raven Street Books for a review copy via NetGalley of the unabridged audiobook edition of ‘Fatal Witness’ by Robert Bryndza. The audiobook is narrated by Jan Cramer.

This is Book 7 in his series of police procedurals set in London featuring DCI Erika Foster. While I had read the first in this series, ‘The Girl in the Ice’, back in 2016, I hadn’t kept up with subsequent books though found no difficulty in returning to the series as background was provided.

As with most thrillers I feel it is best to read without too much knowledge of the plot. So just a few details: Erika Foster is on a late-night walk near her new house in Blackheath when she hears a scream. It turns out that someone has just discovered a body.

Erika is assigned to the case and learns that Vicky Clarke was a true-crime podcaster. She had been investigating a predator linked to attacks on young female students in the halls of residence of a local drama school. All of Vicky’s notes and recordings related to the episode have been stolen from her flat. Then another body is discovered in Vicky’s building, leading Erika to question everything she thought she knew about the case.

The case takes a number of unexpected directions before whodunnit is finally revealed. In between the investigating, Erika is settling into her new home and even finds herself adopted by a cute stray cat that she names George. Hope to see more of him in future books!

With respect to the audiobook, Jan Cramer has narrated all of the DCI Erika Foster audiobooks to date and clearly has an understanding of the characters and Robert Bryndza’s writing style. I have enjoyed her narration on a number of audiobooks over the years, finding her delivery clear and easy to listen to.

I enjoy well plotted police procedurals such as this, and after finishing ‘Fatal Witness’ I plan on catching up on the five books in the series that I missed.

Robert Bryndza does it again!
This series just keeps on delivering a good fast-paced crime read. Detective Erika Foster is on a troubling case that unfolds when she comes across a crime scene of a female victim named Vicky Clarke. Bryndza does an excellent job of weaving the mystery of her death, the complexity of another murder in the vicinity and as always the dogged determination of lead character Erika to unravel it all.