Cold Blood

DCI Erika Foster and DI Moss have been called to the south bank of the Thames where a suitcase has been found in the sand.  Inside is the dismembered body of a man.

Back at the police station, Foster requests DS John McGorry to join her investigative team.  He shows up with a file about a woman who had been found in the Thames inside a suitcase, also dismembered; found just a little over a week earlier.

Pathologist Isaac Strong informs Foster that he found fifty condoms full of cocaine in the stomach of the male.  Both victims had been brutally beaten before being dismembered.  Although forensics is unable to find anything out about the two victims through criminal DNA, they do find their identities through a genealogical matching site.

After speaking to the ex-wife of the man and the parents of the young woman, Foster and Moss learn that the two victims were known to each other.  It is at this point that Superintendent Hudson tells Erika to send the drugs to forensics to see if they match up with a drug investigation, which has just busted a drug making site.

While delivering the drugs to forensics, Foster is attacked.  Fortunately she is able to overcome her attackers, but is badly injured.  The case is passed on to another team.

Immediately upon her return from Slovakia, where she had been visiting her family while recovering, Foster is picked up and taken to the site where another dismembered body has been found.  This time the killers have left a note, which effectively laughs in the faces of the police.  She asks to take over the cases.

The team gets a break when CCTV pictures help to identify one of the killers.  The mother of the young woman involved identifies her and provides the identity of the man she is involved with.

How many more deaths are there going to be before this pair can be brought in?  Author Robert Bryndza has written another thriller, which will have the reader sitting on the edge of their seat, anxiously turning pages to know what is going to happen next.  This was an incredible read, and hard to put down.