This story is very dark and gritty but very well written and I loved it!!

The book does cover some tough subjects, they are dealt with very well, but the book won't be for everyone. I thought that the characters were great and they give the story a really added edge that made it an excellent read for me and it is definitely up there with my best reads of the year so far.

Five stars from me, an excellent thriller and very highly recommended!!

I'm sorry. I really tried to get into this book but it's just not for me. Did not finish it I'm afraid

What a great book, It is gritty, hard hitting, and scary in places, everything I could want from a good thriller!

Thankyou to NetGalley, Black and White Publishing, and Tony Black for the opportunity to read and review a copy of Her Cold Eyes.
Definitely not a book for the faint-hearted. I enjoyed reading this novel though. It kept me on the edge of my seat right until the very end.
Definitely well worth a read for fans of the genre.

DCI Bob Valentine and his team investigate a paedophile ring that takes child abuse to extreme levels. I found this story line deeply disturbing though I appreciate that a lot of this story is not far from true life. Not an easy read for anyone easily upset.

This book kept me up all night, it made you think about whether this does happen in real life, you read so much lately on the subject, not for the faint hearted

I love Tony Black books and this is the latest in the DI Valentine series. Set in Ayr, it is dark and gritty and brilliantly written. A difficult subject matter of satanic ritual abuse of children, which is not an easy theme to write about. Tony Black has handled it well and I give it 4 stars. Thank you Net Galley for my copy. Reviewed on Amazon and Facebook.

well, this is certainly a hard one to review. much like many crime/mystery/thriller books i've been reading recently, there wasn't much of a mystery, and it was more about the thriller aspect.

this book is dark. it's dark as shit. it's an unending fall into the blackest of abysses, and if you have any sort of trigger you should probably look away now because this book has it all: paedophilia, child abuse, gang rape, murder, satanic rituals, cannibalism, etc. none of it is described in a lot of detail, but if you're sensitive to that sort of thing then stay away.

i'm going to say what i say with all these types of books: it would have been good if there was a mystery. but it wasn't. we know who did it. we know what happened, and there isn't any Big Twists along the way.

it had potential, but it failed to deliver, and the ending just left me feeling miserable and bereft, and not in a good way like when you read a brilliant book with a tragic ending. it all seemed a little half-formed, as though the author had the plot down but couldn't figure out a way to make it mysterious.

basically, i'm really, really disliking all these books cropping up that are non-mystery thrillers, because at the end of the day, most of the enjoyment lies in figuring out who did it. that's just a personal preference, though.

Enjoyed the Ayrshire setting and the relationship and struggles of DC Valentine with his team.
I personally struggled with the subject matter of the storyline though I was glad I persevered and finished the book.
Would love to read something further by this author as I have a feeling it was only this storyline that wasn’t to my taste.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Black and White Publishing for a review copy of Her Cold Eyes, the fourth novel to feature DCI Bob Valentine of Ayr Police.

When a teenager is knocked down and killed on a country road near Ayr Bob and the team suspect something more than an accident, not just because she is naked apart from white tennis shoes. When she is identified as missing school girl, Abbie McGarvie, and that her mother had alleged that she was being abused by an occultist group things take a turn for the worse.

Her Cold Eyes is an interesting read. I can't really call it enjoyable as the subject matter is too horrific for that. It is told from two points of view, that of Bob and the current investigation and that of Abbie, explaining the events that led up to her death.

I have very mixed reactions to this novel so I'll start with the good. I live in the area so I could picture most of the locations which is always an added bonus in a novel and I love Mr Black's writing style which is very readable and down to earth. Nothing ever seems out of place or superfluous and the pacing is even, logical and addictive. The characters are well drawn and fairly normal, if you exclude Bob's supernatural visions but as they are few and add little to the ongoing investigation it is easy to brush over them (I'm not a believer). I also like the outcome of the novel which seems very realistic.

The plot is where I come unstuck with the novel. The idea of a paedophile ring in the corridors of power is highly believable and probably true but add in sadistic satanism to the mix and it's a suspension of disbelief too far. The descriptions of the cult's practices are like something out of a horror novel and are deeply distressing so it is not a novel for the faint hearted. The navel gazing about good vs evil in the world today smacks of conspiracy theory and the ancient prophecies about the devil returning. It's a load of tosh to me.

It pains me to rate a Tony Black novel at 3* as I have enjoyed his other work but Her Cold Eyes did not work for me.

What a great read! Incredibly fast paced and full of action. I could not put this book down and had to keep reading until the end.

This really is a grim book, and I must say I’m sure in this day and age things like this go on. You only have to read about the scandals within the BBC to realise how things are covered up, although the author was very sympathetic to the reader in the detail. We could use our imagination without it being too graphic. I think the ending was the only way forward so to speak, and I do hope Tony is going to write some more Bob Valentine books. Can’t say too much without giving the plot away.

I wouldn’t say it gave me nightmares, but it was food for thought.

I felt sure I’d read some of Tony’s books before, the main character seemed familiar but I really don’t recollect any of the storylines. I think I shall go back to the beginning and read the whole lot.

My thanks to Netgalley and the author for the ARC.