Fear the Silence

Fear The Silence is a stand-alone novel by award-winning, best-selling British author, Robert Bryndza. Even when the pathologist tells Senior Registrar at Guys' Hospital, Dr Maggie Kendall that he pulled the trigger, she refuses to believe that her husband Will took his own life. They bury him on what would have been their twenty-fourth anniversary, but even if she didn't know him as well as she believed, Maggie knows that Will was not suicidal.

Both of those prove true. When she heads to their Croatian Island holiday home to sort out his things, a letter from Will indicates that he anticipated his death, and sends her hunting for an explanation. The letter was written six years earlier, at the same time as Will gave up his career as a forensic pathologist to become a property developer, and also when he bought a gun.

At their fully digitised house in Tisina, suddenly too many incidents endanger her life and she's desperate to return to London, where a close friend doing her a favour has also come to grief. It's starting to look like Will's legacy is quite the poisoned chalice. Getting off the island, at first straightforward, unexpectedly becomes much more of a challenge, and going back to the UK may be the right thing to do, but is it safe?

Bryndza gives the reader a tightly plotted thriller with a hefty body count courtesy of some very nasty killers. It's a dark and twisty tale, although some aspects will need the reader to don their disbelief suspenders.