{"id":5654,"date":"2024-04-08T06:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2024-04-08T06:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:49:35","slug":"cara-hunter-the-whole-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/cara-hunter-the-whole-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cara Hunter: The Whole Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

DI Adam Fawley #5<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This popular UK series is being released in chunks stateside.\u00a0 With the release of The Whole Truth, <\/em>books 3 through 5 are now available.\u00a0 If the rest of them are anything like this one, sign me up – if Harlan Coben wrote a police series it might be something like this insanely readable and provoking book.\u00a0 Hunter, in golden age style, provides a precis of the characters at the beginning to aid the reader coming late to the series in getting up to speed. It remained a helpful reference as I sorted characters mentally.<\/p>\n

The book has a fascinating premise.\u00a0 The case that opens the narrative involves a call from a swanky, formerly all-women\u2019s college at the edge of Oxford, and it\u2019s to be handled with kid gloves, so despite the fact that DI Fawley is at home with his very pregnant wife, he is the one who heads out along with his team.\u00a0 He is the one who ends up talking alone to the high up college admin, and he\u2019s the one who discovers that the accused is a young, flashy female professor who teaches AI, and the victim, one of her male grad students.<\/p>\n

The young man goes through the whole rape examination just as a woman would, complete with photographs, swabs and intrusive questions, though the women handling him could not be kinder. You are forced to adjust your preconceptions as you follow this case.\u00a0 The professor in question does indeed seem incredibly entitled.\u00a0 There are some physical clues that point to an assault as well as some physical clues in other forms throughout the house. The detectives have enough questions to make it a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n

The home lives of the detectives play a part in the story as well, and the home life of Fawley powers the other threads.\u00a0 One involves a rapist recently released from prison, who went into prison vowing revenge of Fawley and maintaining his innocence.\u00a0 Adam\u2019s pregnant wife, Alex, is certain she\u2019s being watched, though she\u2019s reassured by everyone that there\u2019s no way the rapist could have slipped his monitoring device and turned up down the street from her home.<\/p>\n

Adam is all in on the Oxford rape case and he\u2019s all in when there\u2019s a murder about halfway through the novel, and the outcome of this murder involves him extremely personally.\u00a0 I\u2019ll try not to give anything else away, though as this novel has been out in the UK for several years it\u2019s possible to find information on the story should you choose to look.\u00a0 But really, just read the book \u2013 you won\u2019t be disappointed.<\/p>\n

The story is told not just through straight up narrative, which shifts points of view between various members of the squad, but also through text messages, emails, handwritten notes, and the script of a podcast looking into the possible innocence and wrong imprisonment of the rapist.\u00a0 While this sounds complicated \u2013 and it is complex \u2013 it\u2019s never confusing.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve ever watched a Law & Order<\/em> episode, you should have no trouble following the story.\u00a0 Hunter writes like she\u2019s on fire, and I could not stop reading.<\/p>\n

This is also a really interesting look at perceptions of reality.\u00a0 Public, private, social media-based perceptions \u2013 every player in the story has a bit of the \u201cwhole truth\u201d but not all of it.\u00a0 The police investigation relies as much as anything else on perceptions as well and as you\u2019ll see, the crime narratives constructed by police based on evidence and interviews, is not always the whole truth or even the correct one.\u00a0 This was a fascinating, compelling read.\u00a0 If you are a fan of police novels, snap it up.\u00a0 —\u00a0Robin Agnew<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DI Adam Fawley #5 This popular UK series is being released in chunks stateside.\u00a0 With the release of The Whole Truth, books 3 through 5 are now available.\u00a0 If the rest of them are anything like this one, sign me up – if Harlan Coben wrote a police series it might be something like this … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1654,1655,454,1657,8,1276,1656],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-adam-fawley","tag-cara-hunter","tag-harper-collins","tag-perceptions","tag-police","tag-robin-agnew","tag-the-whole-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5659,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}