This is the fifth book in a popular detective series and it maintains it's grip as we begin with a sexual assault accusation that's a bit different than one might expect. Then, there's a possible miscarriage of justice from a previous conviction that's been picked up as a podcast.

In and amongst this, is the relationship of DI Adam Fawley and his pregnant partner, Alex.

It moves along well and for me what added to the interest were the insertion of things like; A screenshot of texts / Tweets / A page showing details of injuries sustained / Clips from the podcast. All these things maintained my interest and gave a 'different' flavour to what could be a run of the mill, police procedural. This isn't that.

The police team involved all have separate back stories and are interesting characters in themselves.
Overall, this is a cleverly constructed, riveting read and if you're interested, I'd urge you to start with the first book, although, this one can definitely be read as a stand alone.

Thanks to NetGalley, Penguin UK and the author for the opportunity to preview.

I had read her previous book and my comments on that one are similar. although this one kept my interest a little more. The problem with this series is that they are not really stand-alone; you ned to know the background of the main characters to appreciate them fully. She gives a brief biography at the beginning but there are a lot of detectives to keep track of and I found it difficult to empathize with any of them. The story is two-fold - a serial rapist just out of jail and a sexual assault accusation from a male student by his female tutor. As the focus is on the detectives, the criminal characters are not well rounded - in fact they range from evil to just plain nasty, as are the crimes which are too graphically depicted for me. I have no way of knowing if the detection procedures are accurate but they seem to depend on luck and intuition rather than careful slogging investigation. The writing is quite pacey but the plot switches from one case to another which is confusing.
In her acknowledgements the author says tells us that a TV series will be made of the books. I can imagine a more violent kind of Midsomer Murders but I don't think Adam Fawley will be the new Morse or Frost.

I read this in one day - a really good read. I have read all the DI Fawley novels and have enjoyed getting to know his team over the series so far. Here there are two investigations going on - one a sexual assault case of a male student by a female professor. Secondly the murder of a social worker where the chief suspect is the DI.

Fast paced with twists throughout - compulsive reading.

Cara Hunter can count me as one of her fans by now; this is her fifth book in the series set around the Oxford police team headed by inspector Alex Fawley which gets better with every book. It happens rarely that I am left so completely in the dark about whodunit and Cara Hunter manages it perfectly. Hunter’s mysteries usually have two crimes going, the prose of the plot is interwoven and spiced up with emails, twitter snippets, WhatsApp messages and police investigation reports. In “The Whole Truth” Fawley’s team is called in to look at an unusual accusation: a male student for a change, Caleb Morgan, accuses his female professor Marina Fisher, a leading expert on Artificial Intelligence and rising star of his college, of assaulting him sexually while babysitting her son. The second crime is a murder which derails the Fawley team completely; I will not reveal more as it would ruin the nail biting part of the novel. If you are in the mood for a very clever British crime novel set in Oxford with plenty of twist and turns that will keep you guessing how on the earth the author is going to resolve this one, ”The Whole Truth” is a very good pick. Hats off to Cara Hunter for creating such a terrific, tense crime story. A tiny piece of critique: I like my crime novel endings very tidy and this one felt a bit too lose for my taste but perhaps just right for others.

This is 5th book in the DI Fawley series, I have read all of them and have loved every single one. I was itching to read this one when I read the description.

Cara Hunter's style of writing is gripping, thrilling and also original. I say it is original because of the news clippings, the podcast that runs throughout the book and interview transcripts. Each of these items make the plot feel real and give more of an explanation into what is happening. The way in which Cara's writing style is gripping is the fact that the book is not set out in chapters, more like diary entries and media articles.

I love the team of detectives and I feel i empathize with them especially the protagonist DI Fawley.

I could not put the book down as I wanted to the plot to unfold and develop.

I am looking forward to reading more of Cara's books - I hope she brings out more soon!

The latest Cara Hunter book - yes please!

This is the latest in the DI Adam Fawley series, which is such a brilliant series it is going to be made for TV.

DI Fawley is investigating allegations of sexual abuse. It is alleged a female professor has sexually assaulted her male student at Oxford. During the investigation another crime is committed needing DI Fawley’s attention. The body of a woman has been found on railway tracks. Luckily two railway workers spotted the body falling from a bridge and were able to stop the train which would have hit it. It looked like a suicide but the police are not so sure.

DI Fawley’s wife is heavily pregnant and very concerned for her safety as the ‘Roadside Rapist’ has just been released from prison. Alex was his third victim and the only one to have had DNA evidence found. This is how he was finally caught. The rapist had always said he was innocent and he vowed he would get his revenge when he was released. Now Alex sees him watching her outside her home from his white van.

We have many twists and turns along the way to keep the interest of the story going and an ending you won’t see coming! It is not a grab you immediately book but more of a slow burner which reels you in until you can’t put it down.

I enjoyed the way the book was written as there are various text messages, interviews, emails and newspaper articles along with the text of the book to make the story more authentic.

As always with Cara’s books I would highly recommend this.

An attractive student. An older Professor.
Think you know the story? Think again.

I was lucky enough to be approved to read this on @netgalley

I've not read any @carahunterauthor before & this was a great read.

I felt captivated by the storyline & had no idea how it was going to turn out.

The descriptions helped me visualise the characters & their surroundings.

Twists & turns along the way kept my attention.

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Cara Hunter does it again! This is the fifth instalment in the DI Adam fawley series and this one was equally as good as the rest.

Thank you to Penguin General UK - Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Penguin Life, Penguin Business for sending me an advance kindle edition in exchange for an honest review. I was delighted that I got to read this book early as Hunter is fast becoming one of my favourite authors.

Hunters' writing style is so easy to read although I have to admit I had to remind myself of previous storylines in order to make sense of this one. If you haven't read any of the DI Fawley series, I would urge you to at least read book number 4 prior to this one, as it will make this one much easier to follow.

I really like the way that Hunter uses multi media elements. Newspaper accounts, podcasts, WhatsApp and Twitter feeds all feature in this book as they have done in previous Fawley books. Their inclusion is great, makes the story contemporary and really adds to the feel of the book.

Cara Hunter is incredibly clever at making sure everything fits in the end. Although I guessed the ending in the Fawley storyline, I didn't guess the twist in the sexual assult storyline, and Hunter had me gripped till the very end for that one.

The only disappointing thing about this book is that I have to wait another year for the next one!

I can't recommend this series enough - The characters are so believable and have developed as the books have. As a reader you are invested in what happens to them, which is a bit of an emotional rollercoaster in book 5!

This was incredible! I haven’t read any of the other books in the series but the introduction to this book gave me enough information to proceed with this story without any prior reading. Having said that, I would love to now read the previous titles. This is an extremely gripping story and I really look forward to being able to watch it as a TV series in the future!

This is the fifth book in a crime series featuring DI Fawley. I hadn't read the others but this works well as a stand alone novel as there are enough references to past events for the reader to be able to engage. The author uses a range of devices to drive the narrative including diary entries, transcripts of interviews and podcasts, and mobile phone messages. While this is an interesting way to approach the plot, I found it rather distracting and disjointed. Despite this the book is well plotted.

Captivating! Sexual assault, murder, miscarriage of justice, corrupt policeman - its all very mysterious and just when its all starting to make sense, there are so many twists and turns, nothing is what it seems.
Cleverly crafted, I normally break at the end of each chapter but this isn't written in chapters! It comes in a series of reports, diaries, social media accounts and as a result I was completely drawn in and read it in a couple of sittings. Can be read alone but probably best read as a series.
Interesting and intriguing. I absolutely loved it and highly recommend it.

This is the fourth book in the police series, and references a previous case throughout, so maybe best to read the books in order. Having said that, the book starts with a profile of the main characters so you can dive straight in. It’s a great read, mixing up a few different cases with no one really sure of who is the injured party. I also like the way it is a mixture of prose, transcripts from interviews, pages from notepads and text messages. A recommended read.

WOW!! First of all the title alone should give you the clue that whatever the truth is we can never see the full picture.
DI Fawley and his team find all their preconceptions turned upside down in the case of an accusation of sexual harassment by a student against a professor, what are they to think when the student in question is a strapping rugby player and the harasses is a female professor? This has echoes of the real comments made by police at the time of the Mary Kay letourneau case and shows that realistically we have not come very far as a society in the way we view men as victims.
However the truth is a tenuous thing and the book cleverly leads the reader down one set of ideas and thoughts before flipping over to another. Using visuals such as newspaper headline, tweets, text messages on phone screens and the script of a podcast concerning Fawleys own family the reader is kept stimulated and off balance until the end.
Fawley faces a reckoning of his own which again plays with the trope of truth - what are you to believe, your eyes or the small voice in the back of your head that tells you this cannot be true??
Fantastic read, I would recommend to any fans of Colin Dexter, Claire Mackintosh, Sally Hepworth and anyone who enjoys multiple narrator POV

I absolutely love this series! If you've not come across this author before don't start here, start at the beginning with close to home.

Great characters, a believable plot line, told in an interesting way, with snippets of news and online content. Crime fiction doesn't get much better than this.

More please...

This was fresh, intriguing and a real page turner. It’s part of a series but works just as well as a stand-alone book, I will be reading the other though. I liked that there was more than one case being investigated and that there are quite a few twists. I’d highly recommend it!

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin for an advance copy to review.

You had better make sure you are not interrupted, if at all possible, because this is a gripping read, and I couldn't put it down until I was finished, and then I could not guess the ending. Magnificent crime writing from the author, I will be getting more of her books!

Thank you to Netgalley, Penguin General UK and especially Cara Hunter. All opinions are my own.

'Could he, in fact, be so unstable, under such intolerable pressure, that he actually did this?'

Oh.... my......God!!! This was utterly fantastic!
Its the first I have read by Cara and it certainly won't be the last.

Following two storylines one of serial assault between a teacher and a student that keeps getting flipped on its head. You have no idea who to believe then when you think you know, you really really don't.
The other a rape and murder case involving DI Fawley linking to an old case of a serial rapist, another storyline brimming with twists!

Several things I loved about this are the character bios at the start, this really helped me as a first time reader of the series so thank you for that Cara.

The whole team get their lives, their actions all told in their own perspective which made this feel like it had layers upon layers of intricately crafted story. So much so they felt more real than anything I have ever read.

The podcasts throughout where a welcome addition to the overall story and brilliantly done.

Then the last quarter had my heart pounding, the whole section felt so urgent, I was completely hooked.

What a fantastic bit of writing and it truly deserves the 5*

'Standing next to me in this lonely crowd
Is a man who swears he’s not to blame
All day long I hear him shout so loud Crying out that he was framed I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now I shall be released.'

I went into this read not knowing it was part of a series but that didn't hinder my experience at all. I'd requested this on NetGalley because I'd seen other book reviewers getting excited for its release and boy was that a good move to make.

You can tell upon reading this book that there has been a lot of planning and preparation by Cara Hunter to make it into the story it is. I was hooked throughout the entirety of the story and it was one of those reads where anyone who distracted me was met with my extreme annoyance.

I massively recommend this read and I can't wait to read the rest of the books in the series.

Thanks for an advanced copy of this book.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the fifth title in the DI Adam Fawley books and they have me hooked.

There is lots of characters in this book as usual, and it gives a character list at the beginning so you can always reference back to that if you get lost in these characters.

Its starts with the situation between a student and his professor and this is an interesting dynamic to read about. Its extremely thought provoking and makes for a good read.
The second situation (without giving anything away) includes DI Fawley, an old arrest and his wife which is a really good twist. You do not see it coming.

I especially love the style of the different texts in Cara Hunter's books - the text messages, scripts of police interviews, audio radio scripts.

I am looking forward to the next DI Fawley and his team books.

#The whole truth# Netgalley

This was one of those books I really was look forward too, I have read Cara Hunters books before and enjoyed them. However this one for some strange reason I couldn’t get to grips with at all I really really struggled. It in some way was over detailed is the only way I can describe it. Not just the story of the allegations but then there was the rapes of prostitutes. Also the way kg was laid out the crime. On Instagram or Twitter reading bits of there and any other public forum it was being talked about. It all felt disjointed and Alas as much as I really wanted to know if the students was lying or was it the lectures mistake. I just couldn’t finish the noon which I did rind strangely hard to follow on many places. It’s a very rare thing fir me not being able to actually finish the book. I do know me sooner or later can keep. Things together long enough. Then eventually I know I will eventually read thee whole book. How long who knows. The way I feel right now it fils me with dread having to read anymore. Please please try to keep a open mind. This is my perception of the book only many others have given good reviews. Oh I didn’t like the synthesiser in the voice with. Sorry I couldn’t not finish it. When I do eventually finish it I will update my review either for the better or worse again