The Devil’s Playground – An addictive crime thriller and mystery novel packed with twists (Paperback)

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A Thursday night settles into familiar comfort. Friends gathered in a New Mexico home, children underfoot, the small rituals that make ordinary life feel safe. Then something breaks that safety open. Strangers arrive without warning, and what follows leaves a house soaked in violence and one woman gone.

Detective Alyssa Wyatt steps into a scene that resists explanation. There is no clear motive, no obvious trail, only absence where London should be. The deeper Alyssa digs, the more the case seems to retreat from certainty, offering fragments rather than answers.

Rumours begin to surface of a local cult that thrives on secrecy and devotion, its presence long ignored. As fear tightens around the investigation, time becomes the enemy. The Devil’s Playground is a tense, unsettling crime novel about trust shattered in an instant, and the dangerous pull of belief when reason fails to keep people safe.