This is one mystery/thriller with lots of twists. It all begins with a young boy that mysteriously disappears while camping with his family. There is plenty of guilt in the family as the boy is never found. There are deep familial wounds. Eleven years later, the grandmother hires a private detective with her own issues to try to figure out what happened to her grandson in this cold case. What follows truly leaves one with their mouth agape. Thanks to NetGalley for the early read.

Thoroughly enjoyed this latest release by Robert Bryndza & although it is book 4 in the series, it can definitely be read as a stand alone.
I had not read any of the Kate Marshall series before but found this very easy to get into.
Great intriguing story line that just flowed with ease & soon had me hooked.
Well written this compelling read drew me in with the details surrounding a child that had gone missing some years ago.
The layers surrounding this story get peeled away one by one as you get pulled into this twisty crime thriller.
So many unanswered questions where will it all lead.
This was just one of those books if you start reading you have to finish.
Would definitely recommend.

This is book 4 in the Kate Marshall series and although it can be read as a stand alone I would have liked to have read the first three as I loved this one and I feel I missed out on getting to know Kate & Tristan a bit better.

I could definitely see this as a tv series as it is very gripping and I found that the detail provided allowed me to visualise everything without it feeling like I was reading a list.

Hopefully there will be further books to follow.

Thank you to #NetGalley and #RavenStreetPublishing for a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. #Devil’sWay

One of my favourite authors and this book did not disappoint! So many twists and turns, an outcome that I didn’t expect. A real page turner! I’m almost sad that I finished it so quickly!

Private Investigator Kate Marshall nearly dies on her early morning swim when she gets caught in a riptide. While recovering in hospital she meets Jean, an older lady with a very sad story.
Jean tells the distressjng tale of her three-year-old grandson, Charlie, who went missing eleven years ago during a camping trip on Dartmoor.
Kate eventually agrees to take on the cokd case, but Kate and her partner Tristan discover that one Jean's past liaisons could have put Charlie in danger.
Was Charlie abducted? Or did he drown after falling into Devil's Way,a fast flowing river that vanishes into a gorge close to where the family were camping.
Kate and Tristan also discover that a murdered social worker was involved with the family shortly before her death. Where does she fit into the puzzle?
Full of twists and turns, Devil's Way is an e joyable read.

An absolutely superb piece of writing once again. I do not think you can go wrong with a book from Robert Bryndza. Everything I have read of his is brilliant.

I am really enjoying this series and am looking forward to more character development and to see what sort of capers Kate and her trusty sidekick can get up to.

It was fast paced and easy to read. Just enough detail to grab you and pull you in but not too much that you are drowning in writerese.

My stomach was in my throat more times than I can count and I can honestly say there was more twists and turns the most popular roller coaster.

Highly recommended 5 stars from me.

Robert nailed it again!
I was so not ready for that final twist but that and how hooked I got are the result of amazing writing.
Can’t wait for it to be released and get my physical copy!

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I was so confused because we were lead to think that maybe he felt and drowned or another thousand things but it was nice to see that Charlie had survived.
It was also nice to see the bond that Kate developed with Jean at the hospital and that it was the cause of this case.

I have read every book that Robert Bryndza has written and was excited to see this latest release. This is the fourth book in the Kate Marshall series and although it can be read as a stand alone I recommend reading the previous books to get the back story.
Once again Robert has written a totally compelling and well paced story with great characters and a well woven plot.
Highly recommend!

Thank you for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this outstanding Kate Young novel from Robert Bryndza. Devil’s Way focuses on Kate and her business partner Tristan who are both still juggling their private investigation company and holiday park. Kate’s routine of a daily sea swim has nearly fatal consequences at the beginning of the novel when she is caught in a riptide. A chance encounter with a patient during her subsequent hospital stay leads Kate to investigate the disappearance of a child from Devil’s Tor.
One little niggle that a lot of readers won’t pick up on. Taunton post codes start with TA, not TN.
Great read and highly recommended.

This book needs to come with a health warning - once you pick it up you will not want to put it down.

Back in 2020 I got to read Shadow Sands, the second book in the Kate Marshall series and really loved it so I was excited to get chance to read this book even though I had not read Book 3. The book is quite self-contained so it is not necessary to have read the previous books.

I love the way that the author develops your relationship with the characters throughout the book, and also, (something that I really enjoy), the way that the author builds the location like an extra character, even though some of the places are fictional.

This book really is a page turner and it was a great start to reviewing in 2023. I am sure that by the end of the year this will be in my memory and will likely be in my top books of 2023. It has certainly set the bar high.

The book is published on the 12th January and will be available in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook formats.

Many thanks to Raven Street Publishing, NetGalley and Robert Bryndza for providing me with an advanced copy of the book, in electronic format, in return for a honest and unbiased review.

#DevilsWay #NetGalley

This can be read equally well as a stand alone novel if you haven’t read the others in the series. Lots of interest to keep you reading and a good plot line with a twist. Definitely recommend. .

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#DevilsWay by @robertbryndza

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First post and review of 2023!

I loved this read from one of our favourite authors! I’m so glad it spent less time focusing on the murder mystery side of things, instead incorporating it into a missing person case and that’s what I really wanted from from a private detective book.

I felt really new, fresh and interesting. I was hooked from page one; there was a great cast of characters alongside the returning main ones who were once again on point. I found it easy to read / follow and loved all the eerie descriptions / locations.

Although this is book four in the series, this works perfectly well as a standalone but would definitely encourage you to read the series!

With thanks to author #RobertBryndza #ravenstreetpublishing and @netgalley for allowing us to read this one early!

RELEASING: January 12th

P.S NYD is for eating all the leftovers right? Diet starts tomorrow 😛

-EMILY

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Devil’s Way, by Robert Bryndza, is the fourth entry in his Kate Marshall series. It is an excellent investigative procedural that had me in its grip from Page One!
The prologue, set in 2007, recounts the terrifying disappearance of 3 year old Charlie while camping with his family on Dartmoor next to the towering Devil’s Tor. It is feared he drowned and was swept away by the gorge whirlpool known as “Devil’s Way”.
Fast forward to 2018, and Kate is hospitalized for a near-drowning. In the hospital, she is asked by her elderly roommate Jean to look into the 11 year-old disappearance of her grandson, Charlie. As Kate and her associate Tristan investigate, they find much lies beneath the surface of this story, including suspected child neglect, a murdered social worker, and secretive locals living near the Devil’s Tor.
The characters are well-drawn and interesting, especially Kate and Tristan, whose camaraderie is warm but whose personal lives are complicated, giving a great depth and humanity to the story. Bryndza is adroit as he paints pictures of the people and scenes with his words. I especially like his use of water as a menacing presence throughout the story, from the start with Kate’s episode in the riptide to the drama at the Devil’s Gorge whirlpool.
The atmospheric writing brings to life the dark brooding moor and their dangerous, sometimes deadly, bogs.
This is a suspenseful story to savor all the way! I highly recommend this thriller and look forward to Mr. Bryndza’s next novel!!

Thank you to Raven Street Publishing and NetGalley for the ARC. This is my unbiased review.

Another brilliant crime thriller from Robert Bryndza.
This is a great series and this is a fast paced read that will have you hooked from the first few pages.
While in hospital Kate gets talking to a lady called Jean who overhears that Kate is a private detective.
She asks her to look for her grandson who disappeared 11 years ago when he was 3 years old.
When Kate recovers, her and Tristan meet with Jean and her solicitor and agree to take on the case.
There’s lots of layers to this mystery and soon Kate and Tristan are following leads that no-one else thinks are relevant but prove to be crucial.
This is a gripping crime thriller that I really enjoyed and I certainly didn’t see the ending coming.
I highly recommend this series.
Thanks to Raven Street Publishing and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.

Thanks to Net galley for the early copy.

I love Robert Bryndza’s Erika Foster series and am growing to love recovering alcoholic Kate Marshall just as much. I especially like the pairing with Tristan as her young partner in the detective agency they run.

In this book, Kate is involved in an accident at sea when she accidentally swims into a riptide and has to be pulled out by two young surfers. She has pneumonia and bacterial infections as a result and requires more recovery time than she takes. In the midst of this, she meets a woman in the hospital who tells her about her missing grandson. He was 3 when he disappeared about 11 years previously and Kate is intrigued enough to ask more. Then she agrees to take the case. As she’s unwell, more of the heavy lifting has to be done by Tristan, which frustrates Kate.

The tale is tangled as you’d expect and finding out that the child’s social worker was murdered just two weeks after he’s gone missing, is am added complication. The grandmother has had the boy declared dead and following the funeral, her daughter, the mother, kills herself. It’s a tragic case and neither Kate nor Tristan are sure they can bring a resolution to it.

There are a number of twists and turns until the mystery is finally unravelled, the outcome really isn’t very comfortable for anyone involved.

This is another compelling thriller from Robert Bryndza and I’m looking forward to more crimes to be solved by Kate and Tristan in the future!

I do love this series and with Devil's Way Robert Bryndza has given us a book that is teaming with mystery and unanswered questions, but which also pulls at the heartstrings somewhat. With Kate's latest case involving a young boy who has been missing for more than a decade how can it not? A chance meeting after a near deadly accident leads to Kate meeting the boy's grandmother Jean who asks her to find out once and for all what really happened to young Charlie all those years ago. Tragic accident or something more sinister? With no body and the evidence trail being beyond cold, this is one mystery that will take everything Kate and Tristan have got, and it's a case that really does not disappoint.

I really do like the character of Kate. She is flawed and damaged, beaten down by her past, but she is not entirely broken. Anyone who has followed the series will know that she has a very dark history, personal demons that she has to deal with in a daily basis and every day can feel like an uphill struggle. With a terrible misjudgment on her part nearly costing her life, this book takes on a very different tone. Her son is studying overseas, she no longer has her best friend and neighbour for support, and much of life seems overwhelming for Kate which adds a layer of personal conflict to an already challenging case. There is little to lose in this particular investigation as events occurred some eleven years earlier, but the emotional pull of a family tragedy really does take its toll and that is captured perfectly in the story, the author reflecting the complexity of the case in Kate's own struggles.

There is a deep emotional core to this book. You can feel that something ominous is about to happen from the very beginning, and there is a real sense of impending tragedy in the way the author has framed the story. But it is the mystery - the not knowing - which really captures the imagination. it doesn't help that all of the characters involved in the investigation, from the family to the police who headed up the case, have some kind of shady past making their testimony hard to accept. That said, with one possible exception, there is a sense of them seeking redemption and wanting to right a past wrong, even if the conclusion to the case seems inevitable. There are a few scenes in this book which speak to the tragedy of the whole case, and ones which really did sadden me. Not the expected breakdown of Charlie's family after his disappearance, but a reveal that comes as part of the investigation and that proves to be a crucial turning point in getting to the truth.

This is perhaps a slower paced book than its predecessors by virtue of the case they are investigating. It doesn't make it any less compelling, and the mixture of characters both infuriate and amuse in equal measure, the partnership between Kate and Tristan being one of the real winning elements of the series. You do get a real sense of place from the book, the isolation of the location from which Charlie disappeared and that is one of the author's real skills, being able to take readers to the heart of the scene, even if it is purely a work of imagination. I felt the cold of the stream, the wealth of possibilities for what could really have happened to Charlie and it helped to keep the mystery, and the tension, alive. Definitely recommended, especially for fans of the series.

A child disappeared many years ago on a camping trip, and his grandmother has never accepted that he is dead. Cue detectives Kate and Tristan who are tasked with finding out what happened to him. The book has twists and turns aplenty and although the writing doesn’t always flow completely freely this is a cracking story which kept this reviewer engaged until the very last word.

A great plot which kept me engaged to the end. This book is well written and the characters were believable and interesting. I enjoyed the book and highly recommend it if you like crime mystery.

I have to agree with another review I just saw. I like this series and its characters a lot, but there was just something about this one that didn't hit the mark for me. However, that doesn't mean I didn't find it worth reading, nor does it put me off continuing the series.

I never repeat the blurb. I love this series but have to say that I thought this was perhaps the least enjoyable of them, hence 4*. There was something with the story which didn't ring quite true for me and that did spoil it a little and detract from the credibility of the characters. Won't put me off tacking the next one though.