The whole truth by Cara Hunter.
This is book 5 of DI Adam Fawley.
Brilliant read. I love this series. Adam is my favourite character. I love the cover. I Really hope there is more to come. I don't want this series to end. 5*.

I am a huge fan of Cara Hunter's DI Fawley series set in Oxford and so was very excited to read the newest book in the series. In 'The Whole Truth' an Oxford student accuses a University professor of sexual assault, There is a parallel story centring round the murder of a friend of Fawley's wife.
Like the previous books in the series this is a strong police procedural with a good sense of place. I love the flawed character of Adam Fawley as well as the other members of his team. I did find that the use of the two plot lines made this a little disjointed - but this is a minor criticism of a very strong series.
Highly recommended
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a digital ARC.

As I've come to expect from Cara Hunter this was a tense and twisty thriller with some heart stopping moments, brought alive by her unique stye of different POV and social media commentary.

DI Fawley is facing a stressful summer. His wife, Alex, is nearing the end of their longed for late pregnancy and on strict instructions to take it easy. But the release from prison after many years of her attacker, his promises of revenge and the efforts of a miscarriages of justice podcast to revisit Alex's crucial evidence make it hard for her to relax, especially as she is convinced she is being watched.

Meanwhile Fawley finds himself summoned to investigate a sexual assault. The accused a high profile, brilliant academic, the alleged victim a post grad student with an MP as a parent. The twist? The accused is a woman, the accuser a six foot male and as usual no one is telling the whole truth. With pressure from on high to solve this quickly and be discreet, Fawley delegates the investigation of another crime to his team. A woman falls from a bridge in front of a train. It would have been ruled a suicide if the train hadn't braked in time - and all evidence points to murder. And delegating the investigation is Fawley's biggest mistake to date...

I love the way Hunter mixes character development with procedural crime and The Whole Truth doesn't disappoint. Read in one sitting because I absolutely couldn't put it down - hightly recommended.

I absolutely love reading books by Cara and love her style of writing and the subtle use of images to involve the reader in the story. This book was such a page tuner and so much fun to read. I enjoyed the numerous characters and even though there was a lot going on, I never felt that I had lost my way with it due to the author being able to switch effortlessly between them. Highly recommended.

One of my favourites in the series! It had me gripped from the first chapter and I had no clue where it was heading. I absolutely loved the conclusion and it had me genuinely sweating with anticipation and OH MY GOD. I love everything that comes out of Cara's brain.

Trigger Warning: Sexual violence, murder etc

I was delighted to find out that I've been chosen as one of the first readers to read an advanced copy of this book. I love the DI Adam Fawley series with all my heart. I never missed a single book. Although each publication can be read as a standalone, it's best to read from Book 1 to really experience the characters' development and such. This book, in particular, is set to be published in 2021.

The Whole Truth is the fifth instalment and it is as gory and gripping as expected. However, the pace can be a tad slow in the very beginning. It only got interesting in the second half of the book. It is fast-paced towards the ending. I also find myself struggling to remember everyone's names. I'm on book 5 and still clueless? ( probably because I only care about Fawley, oops)

Plot-wise, I enjoyed how everything weaved together towards a satisfying ending. A lot happened in this book. I can't spoil anything but I don't kid when I say A LOT HAPPENED. Can the epilogue be longer, please? I'm so intrigued. It felt rushed somehow.

Again, I can't review this series without mentioning the inclusion of newspaper reports, interview /radio transcripts, WhatsApp messages. I really love these in every single one of the books.

All in all, this was a great addition to my favourite crime series. I can't wait for the sixth book, probably coming in 2022.
Kudos to the author.

Thank you to Penguin Books UK and Netgalley for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Really loved and enjoyed this book and it’s twisted storyline. It does follow on from from an earlier book in the series, but you don’t need to read these as this is a standalone book. Interesting that these books are soon to be made into a TV series, as while reading them you can see an episode happening in your minds eye. Look forward to the next one.

A good story leaving you on the edge of your seat thinking this can't be happening and also trying to work out what on earth is happening!

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A masterpiece by Cara Hunter.
When an Oxford student accuses one of the university's professors of sexual assault, DI Adam Fawley's team think they've heard it all before. But they couldn't be more wrong.Because this time, the predator is a woman and the shining star of the department, and the student a six-foot male rugby player.Soon DI Fawley and his team are up against the clock to figure out the truth. What they don't realise is that someone is watching.
Someone is lying.
But who?
Read it to know more.
Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin UK for giving me an advance copy of this psychological thriller.

A very well constructed story. Who is telling the truth? who is lying? The belief shifts throughout. DI Fawley is worried about his pregnant wife Alex, The man who raped her years ago has been released from prison and she thinks he is stalking her. Things escalate when a friend of Alex's is murdered. Twists and turns to the very end.

When an Oxford student accuses a lecturer of sexual assault it’s not the case DI Adam Fawley was expecting as the student is male and the lecturer is female.

Fawley is soon put into the rings of Hell when a case comes back to haunt him and his wife, Alex, and could cost more than their marriage.

Oh my god! This book was just the best instalment in the Fawley cases to date. I had to read it slowly to savour each page as it feels like forever since I read the previous book. Cara has created the most wonderful characters who you can’t help but love and care for. It’s not often you could feel this way with police procedural books but this is one gang I adore!
Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

Such a clever book with your sympathies bouncing from victim to perpetrator and back again as the police themselves are confused as to exactly what crime ahs been committed and by whom.
Set locally to me the place names brought the story to life, as did the details of Oxford college life.

I will definitely be looking out for Fawley in the future

Wow! Cara Hunter has done it AGAIN! With her pulse-racing, nail-biting, stay-up-all-night, cancel-your-life-to-read new book!

‘The Whole Truth’ is her fifth instalment of the DI Fawley series which has just gone from strength to strength with each new release. And this book is testament to her unique writing style and her amazing ability to weave a good tale.

I do recommend, if you haven’t read the previous books in this series, to read them before starting this one. Whilst Cara provides brief insights at the beginning of this book to bring you up to speed. I personally didn’t feel these notes are enough for a ‘newbie’ to enjoy this book fully as a stand-alone novel. It is my opinion that this book bears far greater weight having followed the series.

This book, as the others, features Hunter’s trademark style of peppering her stories with various social media channels and newspaper clippings. Unlike others who have attempted this, Cara’s style really does embellish the story and makes it feel not only more realistic (and in some places humorous) but very modern and up-to-date.

I just couldn’t put this book down! It was utterly brilliant and had me hooked from the moment I opened it on my kindle. ‘The Whole Truth’ seamlessly blends 3 unrelated stories into one, slowly increasing the pressure and pace. I remember looking down at the ‘time left in book’ and thinking wow Cara I’ve only got 50 minutes of reading left and there’s an awful lot to solve. I really hope I don’t have to wait for the next book! But luckily for me I had nothing to worry about...

The only way I can describe the ending of this book is like watching a firework display. It’s all very beautiful in the beginning and in time with the melody... then you reach the end and you’re met with an explosion of short (paragraph length) chapters that quickly and effortlessly flick between all three narratives. Drawing your attention left, right and centre. Each one stopping with a new twist, revelation or decision ‘Ooh! Ahh!’. Before ending with an almighty BANG leaving you to catch your breath and with slightly starry eyes reflect on what just happened.

An excellent new novel by a wonderfully accomplished writer, you’d be a fool to not read them all!

Thanks to NetGalley for my advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for providing an ARC of this book which I devoured in one sitting.

Loved it. The whole series has been great but I especially enjoyed getting a little bit of closure in this one.

This was the first book I had read by Cara Hunter so the first in the Fawley series so I really appreciated the character summary at the beginning of the book. I think all authors of series’s should adopt this as its a brilliant idea.
The Whole Truth was a twisty tale that had it all. Sex scandals, lies, and crime. It’s not written in the usual way a book is. It has interview transcripts, WhatsApp conversations, police reports and podcasts. I was reading this book on my kindle so some of the police and pathology reports were hard to see and read but I wouldn’t imagine it would be a problem in a good old fashioned book.
What I liked most about this book was the idea that the victim of the sexual assault was a male jock and the offender was a female teacher. So often books are the other way found so it was refreshing for an author to write it this way round.
I will definitely be looking for the other books in this series.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for gifting me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Wow wow wow, so many twists and turns I didnt know if I was coming or going. Another unputdownable and irresistable book from Cara Hunter, featuring high flying academics in sex scandals interspersed with true crime podcasts and the hunt for the truth. I always love Cara Hunter's books, it feels so now, with excerpts of podcasts, WhatsApp group chats and texts littered throughout. This was up there with the best. Definitely one to recommend to any crime lovers. Thank you so much for the chance to read it.

Like the previous books in the series, this is gripping and twisty with a contemporary and timely storyline of rape and non-consent with a gender politics overlay. It is, though, very much a story of two halves as Fawley gets sidelined for acute troubles of his own, a development which I found barely credible, however interesting in a 'Line of Duty' way...

The format of podcasts, WhatApp, reports etc. continues and can add to the disjointed feel with some very quick-switch cinematic moments, though undoubtedly a page of WhatsApp posts can tell a story far more swiftly than exposition. At times Fawley's 1st person narrative starts addressing the reader directly ('you') and so I was expecting to learn who that intended reader was at the end, maybe a letter or similar? but no, that gets dropped and remains unresolved. In fact, the ending is the least satisfying part as it is so rushed: Hunter has to resolve it with a sudden inset of flashbacks and then it just ends with many threads still in the air.

Despite some niggles, this is perfect switch-off reading. It's perhaps not quite as twisty and puzzling as some of the earlier entries, and veers more towards the soap opera of Fawley's life which I find problematic as he's such a dull characterless lead. But the initial non-consent story and the far more interesting police teams carry this - a page-turner for sure, but with more thought behind it than many in the genre.

Another brilliant instalment in this well established series sees Adam and team face a case like no other. Having Adam off the scene for part of the plot gives a nice chance for other members of the team to shine.
As always, the authors style of adding in several different medias gives an authentic feel.
What's going on with Somer? Hopefully we'll find out in the next book!

An excellent thriller! The characters were well drawn and the storyline flowed seamlessly. The mystery kept me guessing until the very end. Highly recommended!

Having read the previous books in this serious I was excited to read this latest one. It did not disappoint, could not put it down once I had started it! So many twists, leading to a completely unexpected ending. Definitely worth reading!