
Agent: Anna Power, Johnson & Alcock (U.K.). Readers will eagerly await Fawley’s next outing. From the author of CLOSE TO HOME and IN THE DARK comes the third pulse-pounding DI Fawley crime. Hunter exposes human frailties such as social and governmental missteps and policemen’s personal mess-ups while celebrating the essential humanity of those sworn to serve and protect. Series list: DI Adam Fawley (5 Books) by Cara Hunter. The painstaking work of Fawley’s highly diverse team emerges in transcripts of interrogations, emails, witness interviews, BBC scripts, and other documents that enhance authenticity. Penguin, 16 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-14-313106-9.

The subsequent discovery of a body buried in Harper’s garden raises the ante. Adam Fawley, the self-deprecating, ironic narrator of British author Hunter’s arresting, unnerving sequel to 2018’s Close to Home, leads the investigation into the case of a young. The unidentified mother and son are taken to a local hospital, where a psychiatrist thinks the mother, who screams when questioned, is suffering from PTSD.

The police arrest the house’s Alzheimer’s-afflicted owner, retired professor William Harper, but he claims he knows nothing about them. From internationally bestselling author Cara Hunter, a riveting suspense novel about the shocking secrets revealed when a woman is discovered held captive. Adam Fawley, the self-deprecating, ironic narrator of British author Hunter’s arresting, unnerving sequel to 2018’s Close to Home, leads the investigation into the case of a young woman and a toddler, presumably her son, found imprisoned in the cellar of an old Oxford mansion.
