This is the fourth book to feature Detective Alyssa Wyatt and her crack team and OMG WHAT A READ!!!
Bone chilling, visceral and bloody terrifying. It starts as a home invasion, then double murder and a kidnapping. Craven and Mara are devil worshippers and they want to experience the power they believe they will receive by taking a human life. Be warned this book is graphic and definitely not for the squeamish. The best in the series so far. This very talented author is well on the way to being known as the Mistress of the Dark!!!!!
Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in return for giving an honest review

Best one in the series!! Gritty, dark, fast paced. Highly recommend!

Thank you #netgalley and #herabooks for the eARC.

My thanks to Hera books, Charly Cox and Netgalley.
Not going to lie. I started out mostly not liking this book. The writing was a bit simplistic at the beginning. Also, after the crimes were committed, everyone was crossing themselves, and all that goes with it. Guh! Not a fan of religious types.
But, I stuck with it. Mostly because it wasn't too obnoxious!
I ended up really liking this book.
Thing is, that it was kind of heartbreaking. Forget about the satanic worship. Just the fact that London lost her besties. Her saving those kid's, and being captured. Damn. Also, I liked these cops.
This isn't certain, but I just might read more from this author in this series.

well written with a good storyline and well developed characters. It was gripping, suspenseful, twisty and unpredictable. I couldnt put ti down, I really enjoyed it.

Holy SMOKES!

What a ride.

From the first page my heart was pounding. Pounding. I could not look away. This book was so good. This series is a favorite of mine.
This author has a fantastic way of pulling you in from the very start. Fast paced thrill ride!

And I literally teared up at the end. So dang awesome. I love how the characters are growing. I especially love the detective and her partner’s family dynamics. Not only do you love the chase of finding the killer. You become invested in the characters as well.

Thanks to netgalley for letting me review this book.Having not read anything by this author before charly cox is now firmly on my list. The story has everything, twists, blood, violence, murder, loved the story and found it quite dark in places with all the cult sacrifices and how the killers came to be be killers..loved the detail. The only thing that kept baffling me was the names, and i kept having to go back to see who they were. Definately recommend

Omg this book is absolutely amazing! It's so nice to read a thriller that is the old school, dark, murder mystery rather than the tamer domestic noir type! From the oust, this story just grabs you and drags you through the chapters without letting up. I often see books referred to as "fast paced" but this one most definitely just has you speeding full speed through so many twists and turns. The characters are all well written and not the typical clichéd cast you often find in police murder mystery books. This book is dark..... its possibly not for the faint hearted but it is also so engaging and captivating and doesnt have anything vile thrown in just for shock value. I always think the sign of a trully well written book, especially a thriller, is when it not only has you holding your breath and questioning everything, but when it actually brings the reader to tears! That is just how deeply this book gets under your skin and just how invested the reader becomes. Which I always find to be very rare in a thriller/ murder story. It's not all gore or suspense, this book literally covers so many genres that there will be something in it for almost everyone. It's complex and yet never gets confusing. There's no waffle or filler, everything is relevant and does its part to keep the story progressing at a break neck pace. I went through it in a day and loved every second of it. The second I'd finished, I was off to download the authors back catalogue! Absolutely, this is what other thrillers/ suspense/ police books aspire to be. This will keep you up reading through the early hours, it will have you leaving everyone to cook their own dinners because you have reading to get on with. I just loved every second, 100% recommend

Bone Chilling!!

This is the fourth book in this series and let me tell you this author does not hold back.

Murder ,Devil Worshippers and a crazy race to find the killer keep the pages flying.

‘Just to be clear,’ Cord said, ‘exactly what are you suggesting here?’

‘I’m not suggesting anything other than a possible occult angle.’

Detective Alyssa Wyatt and her partner Cord Roberts have there work cut out for them. If your in the mood for a intense thriller that holds no punches this is it.

Thank you NetGalley and Hera Books for the copy of this book, I loved the previous books so I was excited to get a copy of this one. This is the fourth book in the Allysa Wyatt series. The relationships have changed and grown over the course of the series, so if you haven’t read the other books, I encourage you to.
The horrific things that happen in this book are counteracted by how much Allysa cares about the victims and the beauty of the relationships between Allysa and her team and her family. The characters are so good in this book- even the ‘supporting’ characters are well-drawn.
The story was intriguing and held my interest, first to make sure the victims were ok, and then to see how the criminals were caught. Believe me, you will want the criminals caught, and to find out why they did what they did!
If you are looking for a new, well-written series, this is for you! If you are already reading hte series, this is for you!

They're back!!! Detective Alyssa Watt and her partner, Cord Roberts, are one of my favorite pair of criminal investigators. I absolutely love this series and was super excited to be allowed access to this ARC!! This book was extremely intense, twisted and quite disturbing! I LOVED IT!!!

I was seriously terrified at times but could not stop reading. It's a fast read and definite page turner. Charly Cox, once again, excellently delivers a tale filled with what one could only describe as your worst nightmares come to life. I found myself teary-eyed, cringing or picking my chin off of the floor quite a few times. The relationship and connection between Alyssa and Cord is so well developed that I feel like I know them personally. And adding their family lives into the mix makes them even more lovable and interesting.

The Devil's Playground is book #4 and can be read as a standalone, but I highly recommend starting with book one, All His Pretty Girls. You will not be disappointed!

Huge thank you to Hera Books, NetGalley and the author for granting me free access to this ARC!

I was absolutely thrilled to get this ARC from Netgalley as the Alyssa Wyatt series is one of my favourites.
What I love about these books is all of the twists and turns, this one came with a twist that I just did not see coming and it was one of those moments that I had to read two or three times! Aside from the twists and turns though, Charly Cox just writes the best characters. I had tears in my eyes so many times in this book, Cord really came into his own as a character I thought, he had such a good storyline with the kids and I even fell in love with the wolf dog! Four books in and I’m still dying to read the next one, hopefully not too long to wait!