Dark Water. Detective Erika Foster #3.

by Robert Bryndza.

Another good one. DCI Erika Foster has it all this time.

Erika is working on the drugs case, looking for a dumped load, when she finds a body of a little girl who had gone missing years ago.

Erika's gut instinct and professional persistence tell her to re-open the cold case and try to figure out what had actually happened 20-odd years ago. Why was a little girl abducted in the daylight, a few yards away from her own home and why the case was never solved?...

The investigation is not going to be simple. It will have a few throw backs, a few odd findings and it will come to its conclusion, but at what price?...

With so much time gone from the original events, there's little hope to put small pieces of old puzzle together to make a bigger picture, but, as always, Erika is not the one to give up on things just because they are not easy... 

I absolutely loved the characters in this book! 

Even though it was hard to like them, they were quite well portrayed. Very different, yet so quite well matched  and fitting perfect into this particular story.

My favorite one was Amanda Baker. Her transformation takes her from a bitter, faded out grumpy woman to a revived professional, a woman who earns respect back and tries to put things right... It was not going to be all happy ending for Amanda, but it is one character who I will miss not seeing in the next books of the series...

I loved the Lenka line in the story! Erika's sister is a bit crazy, in a funny kind of way. They are the opposites, and it adds to Erika's portrayal to see how actually far Erika's life is from an ordinary wife-mother pattern. 

And of course, Peterson... aw, should i say more?... Well, i should just mention, it's DCI Erika Foster, not an average woman, so yeah... not that simple.