Okay, this is the third book in the DI Adam Fawley series but it can be read as a standalone. You do not need to know what happened in the other books. This is a good move by Cara Hunter. Yes, the old characters from the other novels who work in or for Thames Valley Police are carried forward and this continuation simply added further pleasure to my enjoyment of this book.
No Way Out is a police procedural set mostly in Oxford. There is a fire at a house in Oxford and it looks like arson. Sadly people were inside and the Fire Service begin the search for survivors or fatalities. Who would start a fire on this family home? DI Adam Fawley and his team at Thames Valley Police are on the case to solve this mystery.
I enjoyed reading No Way Out. You get this story from two sides, the Thames Valley Police and the family who live at Southey Road. It felt odd that I knew more about what was happening with the family than the police did but that is the way Cara chose to tell her story. And boy, can Cara tell a story, YES she can!
What I liked most about No Way Out was all the finger pointing that Cara does. Lots of people have strong motives to set fire to this family home, time and time again they have the finger pointed at them. There is a good range of characters in No Way Out and anyone of them could have started the fire. The tone of this novel is very different to most crime thrillers. Generally the reader develops a sympathy for the victim but with No Way Out, the police view the whole family as suspects. As a reader your sympathy lies with the police, who have an extremely difficult investigation, simply because the dead don’t talk.
The plot within No Way Out was very, very good indeed. It was of the same high standard we get from Linwood Barclay and Harlan Coben - yes, the premier league of crime fiction. At the end, all those little bits of detail added up and the arson of the family home made sense. Of course, if I spot a person sat on their own in Pizza Hut, my suspicions will be on alert! Some details just stick with you!
I got a lot of pleasure from reading No Way Out and I feel that Cara has done it yet again. I found No Way Out to be an OUTSTANDING read and it gets the top score of 5 stars from me.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher Viking Penguin UK for giving me a copy of this book on the understanding that I provide an honest review.
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