This was another thrilling read that kept me gripped from beginning to end. Recommended for anyone who loves a good read.

Love this series. Great characters. Many thanks to the publisher for giving me an advanced ready copy for my honest review.

Fantastic novel from Hunter. I haven’t read others in the series but I definitely will now. The plot was constructed masterfully and wound us round unbelievable avenues. Totally thrilling!!

Just finished reading this book, and can't wait to get the next one. Already pre-ordered.
I've loved all the DI Fawley books, and this third one didn't disappoint. A page turner, which gathered pace as the story unfolds. Believable characters, great plot and great writing keep you enthralled from start to finish. I loved it and I'm sure the next one will be just as good.

Incredible story.
Cara Hunter's books grab you from the first paragraph and hold you tight until the gripping climax.
Every time she brings a new one out they become fuzed to your hands - utterly un-put-downable.
This is her best yet.
Fine Stars and highly recommended.

OMG this series is totally amazing!! I have read my way through them so far as quickly as possible as I didn't want them to end! Definitely amongst my top reads!

Unfortunately I read this book a while ago and seem to have missed it when writing reviews. - sadly I cant remember enough detail to give a full review.
However, thanks to NetGalley for the ARC :-)

I didn't like the writing of this book, I found it difficult and annoying to read at the beginning and almost gave up but I'm glad I didn't as it was a really good plot and I kept changing my mind about the ending through all the twists and turns. . I would recommend it
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For some reason I had the latest novel by Cara Hunter on my TBR for a while before I decided to pick it up and once I did, I couldn’t put it down. I love her writing style, her characters, and her twisty plots and I was really happy to go back to Oxford and Adam Fawley’s amazing team.

It’s a cold night in Oxford right, after the Christmas holidays, and DI Fawley and his team are called to investigate a house fire. Two children are pulled out from the ruins while her parents are nowhere to be found. The firefights quickly rule out the accident, there was too much accelerant on the scene, but who would want to harm two young children? And where are their parents?

Cara Hunter knows how to capture the author’s attention by using different perspectives and a well-crafted narrative structure: we jump from one character to another, we travel back in time to see the events that led to the night of the fire, and we read emails, detailed police reports, newspaper articles, and comments from readers that make the story feel much more authentic and intriguing.

The authenticity is given also by the author’s focus on the detectives’ personal lives. As DI Fawley and his team work hard to find out the truth, they have their own problems to solve. Following the events of the previous books, there are jealousies and resentments that could cause trouble among the members of the team and DI Adam Fawley has his own marital problems to figure out.

The story is suspenseful and the surprises just keep coming, however, as it happens with stories involving children, there are also a few heartbreaking moments that were hard to read. No Way Out is thrilling and compelling with a cast of likable and engaging characters that I am already looking forward to meet again in the next novel coming out in January!

EXCERPT: We have our first meeting at three. Somer has only just got back from the mortuary. She still looks a bit pale, and I see Everett asking a silent question and Somer replying with a grimace. Quinn is in the front row with his tablet in his hand and his pen behind his ear (yes, I know, it doesn't make sense, but that is what he does). Baxter is pinning pictures up on the whiteboard. Felix House, before and after the fire, the former clearly from Google Earth. Various shots of the fire damage inside: the dining room, the stairs, some of the bedrooms, what remains of the furniture - most of it hefty and old-fashioned. A floor plan for all three stories, with cross marks where Matty and Zachary were. Photos of Michael and Samantha Esmond. From DVLA, I'm guessing. Esmond is upright, attentive, his hair dark, his skin pale. His wife's contrasts are softer: beige-brown hair, pinkish cheeks, light-coloured eyes, probably hazel. Then there are the pictures of the children, salvaged from the house by the state of them. Matty in an Arsenal strip, holding a ball under one arm, his big glasses slightly awry. The toddle on his mother's lap, a mischievous smile and a mop of unruly bronze curls she probably couldn't bring herself to cut. And alongside the living child, the dead one. I think, not for the first time, what a cruel mutilator of human flesh fire can be. Believe me, you never get used to that, even when you've seen it as many times as I have. And the minute you do, it's time to quit.

ABOUT THIS BOOK: It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked.

The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North Oxford. The toddler is dead, and his brother is soon fighting for his life.

Why were they left in the house alone? Where is their mother, and why is their father not answering his phone?

Then new evidence is discovered, and DI Fawley's worst nightmare comes true.

Because this fire wasn't an accident.

MY THOUGHTS: Talk about a tense read! I kept having to remind myself to breathe....then only moments later would find myself holding my breath again.

This is a Christmas read, but not a Christmas read.....well, not a merry one anyway. But the author handles the distressing loss of a child under such horrific circumstances with great sensitivity.

The story moves between past and present, giving the reader insight, as the investigation progresses, into how and why these horrific events came about. The storyline is well paced and has plenty of twists that keeps the brain buzzing. The authors writing style is contemporary and exciting, and includes emails, reports and social media. I have seen other authors use this format and haven't always liked it, but Hunter uses it to great advantage.

I had not read either of the previous books in the series, but I certainly intend to. Gripping. Exciting. Highly recommended. Five star read.

#NoWayOut #Netgalley

THE AUTHOR: Cara Hunter is a writer who lives in Oxford, in a street not unlike those featured in her series of crime books.

DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Penguin Books UK via NetGalley for providing a digital ARC of No Way Out by Cara Hunter for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.

This was another great book from Cara Hunter. Her plotting is always clever, her characters believable and I love her writing style. There's always something that raises her books above the norm, to something special.

I particularly like the social media and news excerpts which add an extra layer to the story. I can't wait for the next DI Fawley book.

This was a terrific read. Just as good as Cara Hunters other books. It’s full of twists and turns that I didn’t see coming. Fast paced narrative that just sweeps you along and keeps you readin. Can’t wait for more Cara Hunter.

I had really enjoyed the previous books in this series, so was looking forward to reading this one. It certainly didn't disappoint. DI Adam Fawley and his team are investigating a suspicious fire in which 2 children and their mother died. The father, an Oxford academic, is missing and is the prime suspect. There are lots of twists and turns and the plot keeps you guessing until the end. Thanks to NetGalley for a preview copy.
Copied to Goodreads.

Yet another fantastic book in the Adam Fawley series and would 100 % recommend! Cara Hunter's use of medias within the books is just genius and really adds that something extra to the story.

I received a digital arc of #NoWayOut from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I had not previously read anything by Cara Hunter so wasn't sure what to expect. There were no chapter breaks as such in this book, and the story did seem to switch between various timeliness rather abruptly as a result. However, the plot was great. Lots me twists and turns and I was left guessing right up to the end. Such a tragic story which I can't say much about without spoiling it all. I was left shocked by some revelations though! An emotionally compelling read.

The only thing that let it down were all the formatting errors, which hopefully would have been corrected before this went to publication. They were rather annoying and distracted from the plot slightly. I would definitely read more by this author again though.

I can't believe this is only the third Adam Fawley novel. It feels like they've been around a lot longer as the characters seem so familiar already. Once again the story is told via a mixture of first and third-person narrative and flashes of media covering the story, plus snippets of official documents. It's still as fresh as the first novel and sets this series apart in an overcrowded genre.

The story opens brutally. A first has ripped through a house, leaving a toddler dead and his older brother fighting for his life. There's no sign of their parents. As Fawley unravels the months leading up to the tragedy it becomes apparent that this was not an accident, it was murder.

I really have no criticism for this novel. I enjoyed every word and look forward to number 4. It's excellent in every way a police procedural should be.

This book started very slow. I found it boring and tedious.
I did however like the writing style with the newspaper articles, emails and social media updates.
The ending was ok, nothing special but I didnt hate it.
This book was very average. It was no where near as good as previous two in the series.
I am really hoping the next one is better.

Number 3 in the DI Fawley series and another cracking good read. The book opens with a devastating house fire. The action in the book moves between the day of the fire, the events of the previous year and the investigation into the fire. Interspersed with email and newspaper reports the plot unravels excellently with some great twists in the end. The subplot and characters develop brilliantly too

Unbelievably this is the first Cara Hunter book I've read, but it will not be the last. I loved the way the book was written and the characters were easy to get to know, the twists in the book were unexpected but I loved it.
Going to read this series in order, only because I want to not because I feel the book was missing anything because I hadn't read the previous 2, I did enjoy this so want to get to know the main characters better!
Thank you netgalley.

No Way Out is about a fire at a family home which seems like a cut and dry case but ends being up anything but. Admittedly, this is not the sort of case that interests me but Hunter made this story enjoyable. Maybe it was her writing. Maybe it was how much I enjoyed the characters. I don't know. All I do know is that I'll be catching up on this series.

I enjoyed this a lot despite it being the third installment in a series that I've never read. Cara's writing is excellent and No Way Out (and I'm assuming this is a theme throughout her books) contains little extras like phone conversation transcripts, interviews and the news articles. I live for that stuff. I really enjoy authors who mix up the layout of their books. Hunter's writing hooked me right from the start, it's so easy to follow and detailed yet not waffly. Ideal. As soon as I started reading this it felt like I'd fell back into a familiar series. A rare instance where an author/book lives up to the hype.