All The Rage by Cara Hunter
(DI Fawley #4)
Published by Penguin
Publication Date: 19th December 2019 ebook, 23rd January 2020 paperback
Mystery & Thrillers
464 pages
Book Description:
History doesn't repeat itself. Does it?
A distressed teenage girl is found on the outskirts of Oxford. The story she tells is terrifying: grabbed off the street, a plastic bag forced over her head, then driven somewhere remote and subjected to an assault.
DI Adam Fawley is doing the best he can to investigate, but the teenager refuses to press charges. All he can do is try to ignore the sickening feeling he's seen something like this before...
But when another girl goes missing, Fawley knows his time is running out.
Because if he ignores the past any longer, this girl may not be coming back.
My Review:
I have been looking forward to the release of the next instalment in the Adam Fawley series from the moment I finished the last one, and as always Cara Hunter has ticked all the boxes I want in a detective thriller.
The subject matter is as shocking as ever, but so totally different from the previous novels but with the constant thread of the detective team's professional and personal lives tying all the novels together in a subtle manner that you feel like you are part of the team.
A young student has been attacked at the bus stop as she waited to go to college and has been resistant to reporting the assault. Once Fawley and his team are involved though, she slowly but surely helps them with the details of what she went through. and it comes to light that this assault may not have been as random as they first thought.
Meanwhile Fawley is having to face ghosts of his past as they resurface and impact on his involvement in this case. Is it possible that he and the team got things so wrong years ago that they jailed the wrong man? Can the team find the culprit before anyone else is attacked? And why do I have question marks in my mind regarding the newest member of the team who seems to be holding back on something despite being absolutely sharp as a tack in the investigation?
I love the way Cara Hunter uses social media posts interspersed in the prose to reflect public response to the story she is telling. That and her ability to throw in perfectly timed twists and eyebrow raising bombshells make Cara one of the top authors in her genre of recent years. There are sufficient unanswered questions to lead us into another instalment without feeling that the current case has been left unsolved and as always I am left wanting to move straight on to the next book which I know I will have to wait a few months for. That to me is one of the biggest signs of a successful writer, to get that balance absolutely spot on.
Top notch writing once again means this is bound to hit the top of the bestsellers list straight away. My thanks to the publisher for approving my request to read this book ahead of publication via Netgalley.
The subject matter is as shocking as ever, but so totally different from the previous novels but with the constant thread of the detective team's professional and personal lives tying all the novels together in a subtle manner that you feel like you are part of the team.
A young student has been attacked at the bus stop as she waited to go to college and has been resistant to reporting the assault. Once Fawley and his team are involved though, she slowly but surely helps them with the details of what she went through. and it comes to light that this assault may not have been as random as they first thought.
Meanwhile Fawley is having to face ghosts of his past as they resurface and impact on his involvement in this case. Is it possible that he and the team got things so wrong years ago that they jailed the wrong man? Can the team find the culprit before anyone else is attacked? And why do I have question marks in my mind regarding the newest member of the team who seems to be holding back on something despite being absolutely sharp as a tack in the investigation?
I love the way Cara Hunter uses social media posts interspersed in the prose to reflect public response to the story she is telling. That and her ability to throw in perfectly timed twists and eyebrow raising bombshells make Cara one of the top authors in her genre of recent years. There are sufficient unanswered questions to lead us into another instalment without feeling that the current case has been left unsolved and as always I am left wanting to move straight on to the next book which I know I will have to wait a few months for. That to me is one of the biggest signs of a successful writer, to get that balance absolutely spot on.
Top notch writing once again means this is bound to hit the top of the bestsellers list straight away. My thanks to the publisher for approving my request to read this book ahead of publication via Netgalley.
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