Rating: 5/5
Review:
Very good
I agree with the chorus of praise for No Way Out. It’s a very
well-written and constructed police procedural with an excellent cast
of characters.
This time there is a
house fire in which a family dies but the father is missing and
Fawley’s team painstakingly unearth a complex story with the usual
blind alleys and interesting revelations. It’s very well done: the
police actually follow procedure which makes for a gripping and
well-paced story, there are unexpected developments but no
ludicrously Shocking Twists and the whole thing is involving and
believable. The story is told from multiple points of view and with
flashbacks which can be a very irritating format, but Cara Hunter
pulls it off very well.
I especially like
Hunter’s development of her main characters. The police team are a
varied bunch, but all of them are credible and well drawn and their
personalities and personal lives feel genuine rather than just tacked
on, as is rather too often the case in this genre.
I wasn’t bowled
over by the first in this series and missed out the second (by
mistake). This is the third and for me it is a big step up from
Close To Home; it’s probably best to read the books in sequence but
this works fine as a stand-alone novel. No Way Out is a really good
read which I cam recommend warmly.
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