Title: DEVIL’S WAY
Author: Robert Bryndza
Narrator: Jan Cramer
ISBN: 978 1914 5479 97
Publisher: Raven Street Publishing
Duration: 9hours, 2 minutes
Source: ARC from NetGalley
THE TRUTH HIDES IN THE DARK
Kate Marshall’s investigation into a young boy’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by multi-million bestselling author, Robert Bryndza.
When Private Investigator Kate Marshall is rushed to hospital after being pulled into a riptide current in the sea, the near-death experience leaves her shaken. During her recovery, she befriends Jean, an elderly lady on the same ward. Jean tells the harrowing story of how her three-year-old grandson, Charlie, went missing eleven years ago during a camping trip on Dartmoor.
By the time Kate is well enough to go home, she’s agreed to take on the case, but when Kate and her trusty sidekick Tristan start to look at the events of that fateful night, they discover that Jean has a dark past that could have put Charlie in jeopardy.
Was Charlie abducted? Or did he fall into Devil’s Way? A rushing river that vanishes into a gorge close to where they were camping.
When Kate and Tristan discover that a social worker who flagged concerns about Jean and her daughter was found brutally murdered shortly after Charlie vanished, it makes them question everything they thought they knew about the family…
Official Summary
23 January 2023
I have been trying to add more audiobooks to my TBR and I was thrilled to be approved for a copy of this one on NetGalley. I have read one of the author’s books before and was looking forward to this one.
While I am no expert when it comes to audio, I need to say that this one was not great. I battled with this audio and found myself speeding it up. It’s only my opinion but I found the audio a little whiney which often made me turn it off.
However, the story was brilliant and despite not being crazy about the audio, I loved this intriguing search for a lost child.
This is only my second book by Robert Bryndza and I loved this twisty tale. The characters are brilliant and he manages to keep you hooked from start to end. Even when you are pretty sure you know what is coming, you are not able to drag yourself away from this one.
While lying in a hospital bed, Kate Marshall starts speaking to the woman lying next to her, which unexpectedly lands her a new case. Eleven years ago, three-year-old Charlie went missing from a remote camping site.
As Kate and her partner start digging into the past, they find themselves on a twisty road leading to a spooky tree, a remote farm and a social worker who was murdered just after Charlie disappeared. Is Charlie dead? Will Kate manage to put the pieces together and provide Jean with the closure she needs?
Stories involving children always pull at my heartstrings – even when I know it’s fiction. This story is full of twists and turns that keep you curious as the various characters are introduced and are left wondering what role they play in the little boy’s disappearance.
Kate Marshall is a curious woman. The story starts with her being rushed to the hospital after being caught in a riptide while swimming in the ocean. As a strong swimmer who swims in the ocean every day, she is left embarrassed by this. The result of salt water on her lungs leaves her battling with her health throughout the story while she is also dealing with the temptation to have a drink. As a recovering alcoholic, this woman has a lot to deal with.
I found myself engrossed by the twists and turns in this story. I have not read the other books in the series, yet I did not feel as if I was missing anything. I have added the previous books to my wish list and I look forward to finding time to read them soon
If you enjoy a well-written, twisty crime thriller that will keep you intrigued right to the final page, then you will not go wrong with this book.
Books in the series
Also By Robert Bryndza
The Girl in the Ice
Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one.
When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation.
The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect the dots between the murder and the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled, hands bound and dumped in water around London.
What dark secrets is the girl in the ice hiding?
As Erika inches closer to uncovering the truth, the killer is closing in on Erika.
The last investigation Erika led went badly wrong… resulting in the death of her husband. With her career hanging by a thread, Erika must now battle her own personal demons as well as a killer more deadly than any she’s faced before. But will she get to him before he strikes again?
About the Author
Author bio from the author’s site
Robert Bryndza is an international bestselling author, best known for his page-turning crime and thriller novels, which have sold over four million copies in the English language.
His crime debut, The Girl in the Ice was released in February 2016, introducing Detective Chief Inspector Erika Foster. Within five months it sold one million copies, reaching number one in the Amazon UK, USA and Australian charts. To date, The Girl in the Ice has sold over 1.5 million copies in the English language and has been sold into translation in 29 countries. It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller (2016), the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle in France (2018), and it won two reader-voted awards, The Thrillzone Awards best debut thriller in The Netherlands (2018) and The Dead Good Papercut Award for best page-turner at the Harrogate Crime Festival (2016).
Robert has released a further five novels in the Erika Foster series, The Night Stalker, Dark Water, Last Breath, Cold Blood and Deadly Secrets, all of which have been global bestsellers, and in 2017 Last Breath was a Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Mystery and Thriller.
Most recently, Robert created a new crime thriller series based around the central character Kate Marshall, a police officer turned private detective. The first book, Nine Elms, was an Amazon USA #1 bestseller and an Amazon UK top five bestseller, and the series has been sold into translation in 15 countries. The second book, Shadow Sands will be published on November 3rd 2020.
Robert was born in Lowestoft, on the east coast of England. He studied at Aberystwyth University, and the Guildford School of Acting, and was an actor for several years, but didn’t find success until he took a play he’d written to the Edinburgh Festival. This led to the decision to change career and start writing. He self-published a bestselling series of romantic comedy novels, before switching to writing crime. Robert lives with his husband in Slovakia and is lucky enough to write full-time.
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