What a pleasure it is to read a Robert Bryndza book. Devil’s Way is every bit as good – maybe better, but not by much because his previous books were already exceptional – as the last ones. It is another in the series with Private investigator, Kate Marshall. Tristan comes back into the story little by little. The two of them make a dynamic pair.
Kate befriends Jean who tells her the story of her missing grandson. Charlie went missing when he was three and would be about thirteen now. Kate and Tristan get to work solving this mystery. As usual, the writing is great, the storyline is outstanding, and the ending … well, I loved the ending. I think I’ve said this before in reviews of Mr. Bryndza’s work, but I’ll say it again. The characters are ‘human’ with their flaws and weaknesses, but not so much so that you’d roll your eyes. They are just not flawless super-heroes.
Thank you to NetGalley and Robert Bryndza for the opportunity to read and review Devil’s Way. I.Loved.It.

This was my first Kate Marshall book and I enjoyed it a lot. The characters were well written with a strong plot and realistic descriptions.

Another brilliant edition to the Kate Marshall series! Maybe I am biased, but Robert Bryndza books are always an instant buy. Kate is a fantastic character, along with her partner Tristan. I do enjoy that within the thriller, they have character development and you learn more about them. I breezed right through this one and eagerly await more from Robert Bryndza!

Thank you #RavenStreetPublishing , #RobertBryndza & #NetGalley for this free ebook in exchange for an honest review!

This was my first Kate and Tristan book, and will not be my last.
This was a great story, with believable characters and was well written.
Kate has a swimming accident and wakes up in hosptal where she meats Jean, who tells her a story from her past. A story where her grandson Charlie had disappeared on a camping trip on Dartmoor, and her daughter had killed herself after he was declared dead.
Kate finds herself drawn to the story, and once she is home from hospital, she learns that her business partner Tristan has heard from Jean's solicitor. Jean wants the duo to investigate Charlie's disappearance.
Where did he go? Was he taken? These are just a couple of questions that arise during their investigation.
The mystery deepens, and takes twists and turns that you wouldn't expect.
A great read, and I will look for more books about this investgative duo.

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...

This is a wonderful addition to this thrilling series!
Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.
Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believable.
Great suspense and action with wonderful world building that adds so much to the story.
Such a thrilling read that I couldn't put it down.
Can't wait to read more of these.
Recommend reading.

I was provided an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher. This is my own honest voluntary

I hadn’t read any of this series before however it was easily read and understood as a standalone.

I really enjoyed it, well written I will certainly go back and read th others in the series

Kate and Tristan make a great investigating duo and they go in deep into researching places and people to find out what happened to the 3-year-old boy who disappeared during a camping trip with his family. They are able to make connections between crimes considered unrelated in the past and unravel a much bigger crime than just a kidnapping. As usual, the author did not disappoint in providing his readers with an intriguing and engaging story!
I thank Mr. Bryndza, his publisher, and NetGalley for a copy of this book.

Fainting goats don’t work in mortuaries!

Kate, a private investigator, currently in hospital after an accident, comes across another patient, Jean, haunted by the disappearance of her toddler grandson on a camping trip 11 years before. Jean hires Kate to find out what happened – as the body’s never been found. The investigation will lead Kate in directions no one could imagine.

The premise pulled me in, as I love cold cases investigations and uncovering of old secrets. However, whilst the plot was interesting and took some unpredictable turns (the anthology!), the writing didn’t let me fully immerse myself in the story.

Firstly, the dialogues: stiff, full of pompous, official vocabulary that is difficult to imagine living, breathing people regularly using in their everyday speech.

Secondly, many occurrences of telling, when the better choice would be showing. It’s not true that every single thing needs to be shown in fiction writing – sometimes the better choice is to tell, but it’s important to know what a better fit for the situation is. A character will often be described as “creeped out” by the location, but we’re not entirely sure why. And then for no discernible reason we get to know 8 specific brands of soft drinks available in the corner shop. I don’t need to know that they stock Irn-Bru & SEVEN other named drinks, if they don’t play any part in the story!

Thirdly, unbelievable reactions of the characters. 1 example of many: an experienced, long-time mortuary worker won’t break down just because a corpse is young. Real-life holders of such positions will have developed a thicker skin, as otherwise they wouldn’t be able to do their jobs. Fainting goats don’t work in mortuaries.

I did enjoy some aspects of the book. The nature descriptions were great and realistic, I loved the addition of the wishing tree with clouties & the depiction of the bogland. I also absolutely loved the writing in the papers found during the course of the investigation. I wish the entire book had been written like those papers!

This book was a good mystery, hadn't read any of this series before but could easily pick up the characters and how well they worked together. Enjoyed reading and will check out more in this series. Received a copy from Netgalley.

British police officer turned private investigator Kate Marshall swims daily in the sea by her home. When she ends up in the hospital after getting pulled into a riptide, she doesn't trust her, decisions about anything.

After learning Kate's occupation, Jean, her hospital roommate asks Kate to investigate the disappearance of her young grandson. Charlie, eleven years in the past. The family was camping and, at the time, the police assumed the 3 year old had wandered into the river and drowned, his body never to be found. The child's death tore the small family apart and Jean's daughter eventually committed suicide.

Kate and her partner Tristan delve into the past and find numerous anomalies. A social worker who was concerned about the family was murdered shortly after the child's disappearance. Jean had an unsavory boyfriend who had had difficulties with the law. Possible explanations for the child's disappearance seem to multiply at every turn.

Read this well-written work to learn if Charlie was drowned, abducted, or suffered some other fate. Recommended for lovers of mystery. And now, I need to track down the first 3 books in this series.

Devil’s way is the forth book in the Kate Marshall series. I absolutely loved Robert’s first crime book The Girl in the Ice and back then in 2016 I knew Robert was going places and after that series we are now on the forth book in this series…..How the hell did that happen?! Bryndza just gets better and better each book he writes and this book is another winner. I keep saying this is his best one yet. But this one really is.

I was hooked from the start when Kate ends up in hospital from almost drowning…..What an exciting start to the book. Then we are taken on a roller coaster ride full of mystery and suspense when we follow Kate and Tristan on this fresh new case. I love the relationship between them. You know when you read a book and the characters come alive and are in your head?! This is one of those books.

This book has everything you would expect to find from a Bryndza novel. It is an easy fast paced read, that makes you feel right there in story. I totally loved the setting and everything about this story. The whole not knowing what happened to Charlie is sure to keep you on your toes. It is full of OMG moments where I found myself saying OH MY GOD out loud! I could’nt read it fast enough….It is so damn good!

Although this is a series it can be read has a standalone there is references to the previous stories so you know exactly where you are. Honestly this book is pure entertainment and would make an awesome netflix show. I cannot recommend it enough. Giving it all the stars!

Massive thank you to the author for a copy. All thoughts are my own and not biased in anyway.

Yep, liked this, it was a solid Kate and Tristan story - although Kate was a bit pathetic in this one :/
I do prefer the Erika books over the Kate ones, but this was a good book and I liked the main storyline.

As ever, it is set around my hometown so I love seeing all the local landmarks and names cropping up :) Kate and Tristan catch a case of a missing child that disappeared a long time ago with absolutely no trace, on the marshes. They eventually find out what happened and that's pretty much it in a nutshell.

There wasn't a lot else going on in this one, other than Kate having a near fatal accident in the sea when she was taken by a riptide. So I read it really quickly. I would have preferred something else to have been happening to get my teeth stuck into, but this just felt a bit linear.

Overall I enjoyed the book. I will absolutely carry on the series when the next is released, but for now Bryndza has a standalone on the way, so looking forward to that.

This is the first book I have read by this author though it is the fourth in the series. It read like a perfectly fine detective series. Nothing about the characters jumped out at me to make them different than any other series I have read. That being said, as a stand alone, for me, it was a decent story. A child disappeared and someone is hired 11 years later to find him. Everyone wants closure to a missing child case. So, I read it quickly wanting that closure.

I really enjoyed the first book in this series but there have been some changes with each subsequent book that have eroded things bit by bit for me. With this fourth installment, we had a change of narrator so I sometimes wasn’t sure if I was struggling with the narration or the writing. I felt like the dialogue was more forced/stilted this time than in the previous books- Tristan snapping at his sister, Kate snapping at Tristan, etc. Even so, I was intrigued by the mystery and was along for the ride to find out what happened to baby Charlie!
*Thanks to Ravenstreet Publishing and NetGalley for the advance copy.

Very good believable mystery. It all comes together in the last 20% of the story. The story will grab you from the opening chapter. The blend of Private investigators, Kate and Tristan is very good. Im glad Kate has Tristan because I get concerned that she might get hurt if she was alone on these investigations. Kate and Tristan solve what you and I would consider an unsolvable 11 year old case. And they do it very convincingly.
My only negative is, I felt there was too much description of everything. I found myself skimming some paragraphs that didnt move the story forward.
I highly recommend This mystery.
I was given this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is the 4th book in the Kate Marshall series but it was easily read as a stand alone. However I cannot wait to go back and start with book 1 as I loved the characters and need to see how their stories began! I loved the twists and turns throughout the story, who think you have it figured out but of course you don't!

11 years have gone by since little Charlie disappeared. So many questions left unanswered and no one is telling the truth. What happened to Charlie? Is he still alive?

Thank you Netgalley, the author and the publisher for my ARC!

This is the fourth in the Kate Marshall private detective series. Devil's Way is full of twists and turns. You think you know what happened? Think again and here's a big plottwist to confuse you even more. I'm a huge fan of thrillers that keep me on the edge of my seat and constantly provide new information, so this really was a book for me.

Robert Bryndza’s novels have great covers. I love covers that arouse my curiosity, and fit the story inside. So put on your walking shoes and let’s follow the mystery of the missing boy.

The story sounded familiar to me and I wondered if it was taken from the headlines or I saw something on one of my TV show thrillers. If so, Robert Bryndza managed to make the story his on. The mystery grows, taking on a life of its own, becoming muddled in murder. We have suspects, but none of them stand out to me. Of course, I blamed the family first and kept telling myself, don’t get tunnel vision, manipulating the facts to fit my hypothesis.

Devil’s Way is a police procedural that takes us step by step through the mystery with Kate and Tristan. I kept trying to come to my own conclusion, but I do that with every book. Don’t you?

I love water, and so does Kate Marshall. She lived in a house that sits on the top of a cliff looking out over Thurlow Bay, England. Water is her friend, except when she isn’t paying attention and gets caught in a riptide. That is when she meets Jean.

Kate Marshall is a private detective, and ex police officer, working with her friend and partner, Tristan Harper. They’d become close, since she took him on as a research assistant seven years ago. She also owns a caravan park, but that has stories of its own. She has a son, Jake, who is now a college student. His father is a convicted serial killer, and she lost custody of him because of her drinking problem. She has been in AA for thirteen years.

Mysteries and police procedurals are always hard for me to rate. I love thrills, blood and guts, edge of my seat suspense, but then, I also like to have to follow the step by step process of solving a crime. Devil’s Way by Robert Brundza has all the elements we need to follow the investigation to its conclusion, with a twist and turn thrown in for good measure.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Devil’s Way by Robert Bryndza.

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I have mixed feelings about this book, it is my first by this author, so I have not read the previous Kate Marshall crime mysteries.
The subject matter of a lost child, even though a long time ago, is heartbreaking. It’s a good story, if a bit implausible at times. It is a heavily descriptive book, especially of the terrain and weather conditions, when Kate and Tristan check out the scene of the child’s disappearance, and where the search ultimately leads.
My main difficulty was the lack of characterisation of Kate and Tristan, and their working relationship. I got very little sense of Kate, or of Tristan, as people, and how they relate to each other. I just didn’t find it convincing. Two and a half stars rounded up to three for me,
My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my advance copy of this book.

On a family camping trip at Devils Way (Eastern part of Dartmoor National Park) June 2007 Jean Julings was sharing a tent with her beloved three year old grandson Charlie, while his parents Becky (Jeans daughter) and Joel were in another tent close by.
Second night when putting Charlie to bed Jean promised to read him a story once she has had a cigarette, she went outside when finished she heard someone calling her name recognising the voice of her ex partner Declan and not wanting to disturb Charlie she went to tell him to go away. Returning after around ten minutes she found Becky looking for Charlie, he wasn't in either of the tents after checking the area the police were called they sent out search parties including sniffer dogs but no sign of Charlie was ever found, it was assumed he had stumbled into the river and drowned.
June 2018 Kate Marshall, an experienced sea water swimmer goes for her daily morning swim and gets caught in a rip tide there's nothing she can do, as she is dragged under by the strong current she feels the life draining from her as the life is leaving her body. Next thing she is aware of is feeling battered and bruised, but she's alive and in hospital feeling foolish as she knows the sea. Now the doctor was telling her she has pneumonia.
The woman in the next bed was loud shouting to the nurses to turn the light out woke Kate up, she started speaking to Kate asked if she'd heard right, are you a private detective? Kate said she was.
Jean introduced herself told her about her grandson going missing eleven years earlier said she wanted to hire her to find him. Kate asked her to tell her what happened Jean tells her what happened and Kate agreed to take the case.
When she woke up the bed next to her was empty she was unsure if the medication was playing with her imagination.
What a book Robert has excelled himself yet again. I absolutely loved this book, there are so many twists and turns keeps you guessing right until the end. I couldn't put this book down it really is a page turner. The characters really warm your heart sometimes they don't seem the most pleasant of people but with a bit of empathy you see through that. Love Roberts books roll on next one.