The Night Stalker by Robert Bryndza

The global and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Girl in the Ice is back with a heart-racing, electrifying Erika Foster thriller -- a series with over two million copies sold -- in a hunt for a calculated serial killer whose connection to their victims is shrouded in secrecy. If the Night Stalker is watching, you're already dead... In the dead of a swelteringly hot summer's night, Detective Erika Foster is called to a murder scene. The victim, a doctor, is found suffocated in bed. His wrists are bound, his eyes bulging through a clear plastic bag tied tightly over his head. A few days later, another victim is found dead, in exactly the same circumstances. As Erika and her team start digging deeper, they discover a calculated serial killer who stalks their victims before choosing the right moment to strike. The victims are all single men, with very private lives. Why are their pasts shrouded in secrecy? And what links them to the killer? As a heat wave descends upon London, Erika will do everything to stop the Night Stalker before the body count rises, even if it means risking her job. But the victims might not be the only ones being watched. . . Erika's own life could be on the line.

First off I would like to thank I would like to thank Net Galley, Bookouture and Robert Bryndza for gifting me an advanced copy of The Night Stalker in exchange for an honest review. I would have bought this regardless I have been waiting for it like an eager kid in a candy store.
Before I go into how fabulous this book is I want to tell everyone who isn't familiar with DCI Foster to start at the beginning and buy GIRL IN THE ICE when you pick up THE NIGHT STALKER because they both complement each other so well you NEED both books in your life. I truly think that Robert Bryndza gives all crime thriller writers a run for their money.
The story not only shows that his character development is flawless but I had a really hard time putting it down in fact I finished it in two days.
If the Night Stalker is watching, you're already dead...
Just when I thought the story could not get better WOW
In this beautiful continuation we fallow DCI Erica Foster as she heads up the investigation in search of a brutal serial killer. The first few pages pull you into the story that you just have to see how it will unfold. Since Robert's descriptive narratives are done so well you can actually see the story unfold right before your eyes and that is the best thing for a reader to be able to feel like they can get lost within the pages.
An unknown killer breaks into a man's house and very methodically kills him. I'm talking covers all the bases; drugs him, cuts the power and phone lines while crushing the cell sim card, creeps back upstairs and waits for him under cover of darkness with a bag to complete the mission. After examining the evidence DCI Foster fears it is much worse than the rest of her team. One murder turns to three and the team is left chasing false leads and even accuses one of their own of the crime!
I don't want to give away too much more of the story so I will say this if you like a strong, independent, intelligent woman working in law enforcement as your lead protagonist then DCI Foster will be a MUST READ.

The murder mystery was good but I just finished another book where the female detective is a mess and goes against orders so I was a little over that trope.