The Toybox by Charly Cox

  📖 The ToyBox (Detective Alyssa Wyatt Series #2) 

✍️by Charly Cox (Published 23rd October 2019)

📄My rating: 4 of 5 stars on Goodreads

Format: Paperback #kindle ebook #audiobook

2022.09.21 ~ 12.05 am :

Following my last read on Charly Cox's Detective Alyssa Wyatts series and curious to move on to her next story in the series, I quickly picked up The ToyBox and finished in a flash! >v<

Charly Cox smart and considerate writing style continues into this second book in the series and I am impressed by how she has told the story with details and yet without explicit dark words to spark your imaginations. 

For you whom might be curious, here’s a little spoiler :

The Toybox unfolded months after All His Pretty Girls and Detective Wyatts and her family were just recovering from their own incident when her daughter's close friend went missing and sparked a new race against time investigation to save innocent girls from evil hands.

The Toybox touched on a sensitive and yet very real on-going crime happening in our modern world and the author has successfully shown readers insights into the dark scenes of actual events. It brought awareness to all who read the terrifying ordeals and sufferings of innocent girls being trafficked into sex rings and crimes. Though details were carefully not coloured, our wild minds can easily imagine the unspeakable. As what the book had wished, I do hope this will bring greater awareness to the public and hope governments and law enforcements all over the world will act to bring such crimes to zero.

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All His Pretty Girls by Charly Cox

 📖 All His Pretty Girls (Detective Alyssa Wyatt Series #1) 

✍️by Charly Cox (Published 23rd October 2019)

📄My rating: 4 of 5 stars on Goodreads

Format: Paperback #kindle ebook #audiobook

2022.08.30 ~ 12.05 am :

Was searching for a serial killer series to read for my September #BOTM when I chanced upon the first book in the Detective Alyssa Wyatt series, All His Pretty Girls, and this debut novel from Charly Cox has not disappoint at all! On contrary, it has hooked me from beginning to end and I almost finished it in a sitting if not for regular duties of life I have to fulfil 😂

For you whom might be curious, here’s a little spoiler : 
Detective Alyssa Wyatt was assigned to investigate a case of a missing woman which eventually turned up dead. She felt that she had failed the husband of the woman so deeply like she had failed her own little brother. Her 4 year old brother, Timothy, has been taken outside of their home while 9 year old Alyssa had ran inside to grab a cool-aide. Investigations into the case slowly dug up deeply buried hurts and regrets, while linking other past cold cases to a killer serial. From this point on, the story enters the confessions and history of this serial killer whom is later revealed as sharing the same sibling DNA as Alyssa. 🤔

I love the story plot, although in the beginning I already have the inkling that the killer was in the same room as the dead woman. I also love the way Charly Cox managed to paint the horrid pictures of what happened to Timothy and how he had become what he was in the end, in the way without explicit gore and yet descriptive.

Now, I am driven to finish the rest of the books in this series and will review as I go. 😍

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