Oh my goodness this author just continues to blow my mind.
I absolutely adored this book, however I expected no less after books 1 and 2. I went in so incredibly excited, but nervous also that it couldn't possibly be on par with book 2, which by the way was one of my favourite books of 2018, but Cara Hunter just keeps on delivering.
As always the mixed media/ different formatting is always a favourite of mine and once again it was used perfectly.
This book was full of brilliant character development, and the tenderness in Fawley's relationship with his wife was particularly heart-breaking in this book. I love this whole team of characters and cannot wait to read more with them.
I really enjoy Cara Hunter's writing style, I find it so simple yet effective, it doesn't need anymore than it has and that along with the short sections make this perfect to just speed through. I also love the short sections because it means we see everyone's perspectives, in close proximity but carrying out different tasks, so that something is always happening. Truly a thrill on every page!!!
Just like its 2 preceding books, No Way Out was full to the brim with red-herrings. Seriously at one point or another my suspicions pretty much fell on everyone in this book, however I could never have guessed the intricate inner-workings of this plot, and I have no doubt this book will be on my mind until I can have Fawley book 4!
This is the definition of a thriller, seriously, authors- take notes!!
I am so excited for more to come from this author.

This is the third D I Adam Fawley novel and they just keep getting better! In "No Way Out" we follow closely the tragic case of a house fire in Oxford and its consequences. Is it arson, murder, infanticide, missing persons or just a horrible accident? As the team delve into the background of the family living at the rambling property we discover secrets wrapped in deception and lies. Also coincidences - and as Fawley says, he doesn't believe in coincidence, not in police work.

The true strength of this book lies in the characters - even the minor players are described in such a way that they seem so real to the reader. For example, black officer DC Tony Asante, telling colleagues he's from 'near Brixton' and letting them jump to conclusions, though he actually went to Eton. I loved the way he was described as taking notes during an autopsy when the others couldn't bear to watch, and Fawley seems to have recognised his potential. These character details really make a book stand out!

As for the plot, it is complex, twisting and immersive, and the police and fire service procedural aspects seem remarkably realistic. The author must have some excellent contacts.

As with the previous books, the thoughts, relationships and personal lives of the officers are heavily intertwined with their daily work. The police investigation is cleverly interwoven with the back story from the occupants of the house, starting many months before and eventually reaching the time of the fire. I felt genuinely guilty about suspecting one particular person who turned out to be innocent.

One final thing - I enjoyed the use of social media - the emails, newspaper reports and tweets. Read them or you might miss a clue!

I must admit I did prefer the first book in this series. this one is a little monotonous-however a good crime novel, with lots of twists and turns.

This is the 3rd DI Fawley book on the series and they are quickly becoming my must read series. As with the previous books they are fast paced with so many twists and turns it's impossible to predict what's going to happen next.
I love the news extracts as an interesting look into modern times and trial by media and how quickly people are to jump to their own conclusions.
If you are looking for a good detective novel with characters that are human and down to earth with their own flaws this is the book for you.

Love Cara Hunter and her DI Fawley novels and No Way Out (her third) is the best of the bunch so far. So many twists and turns in solving this murder mystery. The author's style of writing really pulls the reader in.

The book begins when a fire breaks out in a house in Oxford and it it seems like arson. A young boy dies and his brother is fighting for his life. No sign of the parents. DI Adam Fawley and his team are on the case but DI Fawley also has personal issues in his own life, his wife has left him and this case resonates with him having lost his own child.

The plot in this book was excellent, fast paced, addictive, full of twist and turns. Hooked from start to finish.. A must read!

I was unable to download this to my kindle for some bizarre reason 🤔

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I enjoyed this story..

Middle-class, suburban family......husband university lecturer, wife,two sons. Book opens with their house on fire and being almost destroyed; eventually bodies are found in the debris (no spoilers).
The work of the fire investigators and the police was well researched and made the book very believable. At times it did seem real........certainly a page turner.

An excellent story with interesting characters and a plot that kept me hooked from the start. I got a little lost when the narrative moved about from one method to another but once I realised who was who I got over that little niggle.
I heartily recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good who done it and I certainly didn’t work it out correctly.

‘No Way Out’ is an efficient, nicely detailed police procedural that didn’t work quite as well for me as I would have expected it to. On paper it has everything I like in this kind of book - a varied cast, lots of forensic information and a good enough premise. In the end though it felt too much like other things, without enough of a hook of its own to pull me in.
The book centers on the investigation of a house fire by DI Adam Fawley and his team in the Thames Valley Police. Naturally there are bodies in the charred remains of the house, as well as a strong suspicion of foul play. It’s the third Fawley book, but the first that I’ve read. It’s clear that a lot has gone on in the earlier books as there a numerous references back to previous events, both the crimes the team have investigated and the details of their personal lives. Author Cara Hunter handles this well, summarising what has gone before without dropping too many spoilers. I never felt like I was missing things because I hadn’t read the other books, but I also don’t feel like they’ve now been ruined for me.
The Oxford setting means you can’t help but compare it to Colin Dexter’s brilliant ‘Inspector Morse’ novels, and sadly it’s just not as good. The main issue I had is that the mystery never really got under my skin. You know how sometimes when you read a detective story the desire to know what really happened is all consuming? That just wasn’t the case here. Worse still, I didn’t feel like Fawley and team cared that much either. Too often it felt like they were doing a job rather than crusading for justice. I suspect that this is in fact the reality of modern policing, but it doesn’t make for brilliant reading.
That’s not to say that the book is awful. The story is relatively simple, but Hunter tells it in quite a complicated and interesting way, with a mixture of third and first person perspective (the first being Fawley). She also includes present day narrative on the investigation and extended flashbacks on the build up to the crime that flesh things out. On top of that, there are numerous sections which come from other sources: excerpts of police interviews, stories from news websites, and so on. These sometimes work well (although there were some formatting issues in the Advanced Reader Copy I had) but often feel like they don’t add enough to the story to justify the pages they take up.
The characters feel convincing, especially the family that are the victims of the fire, but critically I didn’t really care about any of them. That may be why the mystery didn’t grip me and it certainly left me wanting to finish the book so I could read something else rather than because I wanted closure.
‘No Way Out’ is a book that’s entering a very crowded marketplace, and while it has some original ideas (especially in the way the story is told), it ended up feeling like a bit of an also ran to me. Not terrible by any means, and if you love this kind of thing it might well be for you, but for me it lacked the spark needed to make it essential reading.

Continuing her DI Adam Fawley series set in Oxford, Cara Hunter takes us to the scene of the crime on the first page of her third novel. A magnificent North Oxford house is on fire, a small child dead at the scene and a young boy fighting for his life. Their parents are nowhere to be found.
It is the responsibility of DI Adam Fawley and his team to locate the missing adults and to work out what has actually happened to this seemingly conventional, respectable, prosperous and successful family. As ever, Cara Hunter’s carefully knitted plot threads lead the reader through the narrative. The detectives travel to London and Brighton as well as scrutinising the Oxford neighbourhood before the answer is revealed. And it’s a plausible one too. The author builds up the protagonists’ personalities and motives so convincingly over the course of the novel, allowing us to look back at the life of the Esmond family in the months before the fire as well as forward to the final outcome.
However, Hunter does not only focus on the victims and criminals. She also takes us to a greater understanding of the relationships between the detectives working out of the Oxford station and of their personal lives. As in her earlier work, this novel explores the dynamics between parents and their children whilst Adam Fawley continues to mourn the death of his son, this feeling of loss made worse by only sporadic contact with his estranged wife Alex.
Another engrossing read from Cara Hunter who understands that the best sort of police procedural allows the reader to become as involved in every development as those investigating the crime, who grow in understanding not just about how it has happened but in addition why.
My thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House UK for a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

An intriguing read that I was desperately trying to work out from the very beginning. The Esmond family home is destroyed in a catastrophic fire that also claims the lives of two innocent children. But as the investigations into the fire develop it quickly comes to light that this was no accident and that their parents have seemingly disappeared into thin air.

I didn't know that this was part of a series and I have never read any of the DI Adam Fawley books but this really does not matter as it can be read as a standalone book.

Hunter keeps us guessing to the very end. Everytime I thought I had it figured out I was then proven wrong. An amazing read that I would 100% recommend.

A house fire shortly after Christmas leads to the death of a three year old boy and his mother. A ten year old boy is in a serious condition in hospital. The fire brigade believes it’s arson but the police can’t trace the father who was at a conference in London. Did someone have a grudge against the family or has the father killed his family? DI Adam Fawley and his team investigate. Adam is struggling himself as his wife has gone to stay with her sister for a while and he is worried that she isn’t coming back. Love this series - each book keeps you guessing the whole way through. Looking forward to the next one.

Thanks to Netgalley, Penguin Books and Cara Hunter for the ARC of this book in return for an honest review.

Beast book I've read in a long time. Doesn't disappoint. Loved it, a realtor thriller keeps you hooked the while way through

If this is your first encounter with Cara Hunter's DI Fawley then I have good news - there's more! This is another carefully structured story in which patient detective work yields results in a credible and satisfying way, but which is brought to life by the way Ms Hunter builds characters and gives them real personalities. The back stories of key players are given the correct significance within the narrative: enough to lend credibility to their characters but not so much that they interfere with the storyline. Ms Hunter's writing is fluent and a pleasure to read; her careful use of literary devices to introduce social media and news items is precisely calibrated to add to the story without interfereing with the narrative flow. The story could be drawn from the news in any typical day and it is to Ms Hunter's credit that she manages to introduce clever plot twists and turns without straining the reader's credulity. Highly recommended

I am fast becoming a fan of Cara Hunter's novels.
An excellent, solid thriller with several twists told in a kind of 'Curl up on the sofa all weekend and cancel the housework' tradition but with a modern twist which, now that social media and online news reports are more widespread, we can all relate to.
I loved it.
I read Close to Home and loved that one too but I'd forgotten just how enthralling the writer's style of storytelling can be.
I rarely give 5 stars but felt this was totally deserved.

I was excited to receive my ecopy of this novel as I have read and enjoyed Cara Hunter's work before. I was a little concerned that she might not have been able to keep up her previous high quality but I was far from disappointed.

The characters we have met in earlier books continue to grow and are all believable, and in the main, likeable.

No Way Out is to me, the best of Hunter's work so far. So many twists and turns in the build up and conclusion of police work in solving this murder mystery and in the police characters' personal lives also.

I thought I'd solved the crime so many times with so many plausible reasons and characters coming to light but I was fooled right up until the end, quite brilliant.

I did however, have my doubts about the dog's death as in my own personal experience it would take more than that to actually kill a previously healthy dog, but I'm no vet.

Another fine book in the DI Fawley series.
Two children pulled from a raging house fire. Mother is missing. Father is unreachable.
The answers lie in family history and altered plans.
A “must read” book.
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Interesting approach to the narrative in this book, enjoyed it and will be reading others works by this author.

Love this series! And this third book has just cemented it as my favourite series this year. It can be read as a stand-alone, but you would be doing yourself a dis-service if you didn't read those too!
No Way Out is an excellent story about the brilliant DI Fawley and his team trying to solve an arson case that is anything but straightforward. Beautifully plotted and written with all the twists and misdirections you can think of, I can't wait to see what comes next!

I was intrigued by this book from the very beginning. I liked the use of official reports, especially the opening one from the Fire Department. The characters and their motivations interested me and I openly admit that I didn’t work out the denouement. I actually stayed up last night into the small hours to finish this book as I knew I wouldn’t sleep without knowing what happened. I haven’t read any books by Cara Hunter before but I’m certain this won’t be the last, particularly as I liked the police characters who presumably appear in her previous books.