Book Review: No Way Out

The third in the DI Adam Fawley series, No Way Out follows months after the events of In the Dark, with the story coming to a boil when a fire at a sprawling home in North Oxford unearths two children from the rubble. Disturbing enough, there seem to be no one else. Where is the mother and the father? But even worse, evidence points that the act may have been deliberate. Because, as it's with any mystery, there are too many questions and no forthcoming answers, and the deaths have to be nothing but murder. Delving into themes of post natal depression and fleshing out her work with a bevy of memorable characters who do more than just provide scenery and transition to an engrossing story, author Cara Hunter delivers a gripping variation on familiar genre elements, and wends its way to a tense final showdown that makes the wandering trajectory worthwhile. An absolutely brilliant, taut thriller that begs to be read in one sitting.