Cara Hunter writes contemporary British crime fiction best known for the DI Adam Fawley series, set in and around Oxford. Close to Home begins with a child disappearing during a neighbourhood party and introduces Fawley's team through an investigation shaped by family secrets and public suspicion. In the Dark starts when a woman and child are found imprisoned in a cellar, while No Way Out centres on a fatal house fire. Later books use police interviews, news reports, maps, messages and other document-like material alongside conventional narration, giving the investigations a clipped, multi-source feel. Murder in the Family is a standalone built around a true-crime television programme revisiting an old killing. The Fawley novels sit between police procedural and domestic suspense, with Oxford providing a recognisable setting but little of the cosy academic atmosphere associated with Morse. Read more Less

