Excellent read as always. This particularly series Is always gripping and I like the way you have a stand alone thriller but you have the background of the he main characters developing their own story.

Faith Is found wandering the step reefs dazed and distressed. She had been dragged off the street, a plastic bag put over her head, driven to an isolated area where she was subjected to an assault but she is refusing to press charges. DI Farley investigates but there is little he can do without Faiths co-operation. Is she hiding something and why does Fawley keep thinking that he has seen a case like this before? Then another girl disappears and Adam has no choice but to face up to his past. Until he does this victim may not be coming back.

How on earth have I never read anything by this author before? This was brilliant. It kept me reading and when I wasn’t it was all I could think about. The characters were well developed, some not so likeable but they all had a good part to play within the storyline. I didn’t realise this was the fourth book in a a series so I was worried I might have missed out on lots of previous information but I didn’t need to worry, even though I haven’t read anything by this author before, I didn’t feel like I had missed out at all! A truly gripping story which kept me turning the pages until the very end. I loved this book and now need to go and find more by this author.

Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher Penguin Books UK for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Cara Hunter is an excellent author. Her Adam Fawley series is one of the best police procedural books that I have read. Once again, with All the Rage, she has kept me guessing, unsuccessfully, till the last chapter. D.I. Fawley has secrets of his own and I can't wait to read the next book to see where this leads. His team are all brilliant characters and I would love to learn more about them too. I can't recommend this book highly enough, and I would definitely give it more stars if I could.

Thank you NetGalley and Cara Hunter for this amazing book.

Brilliant book edge of the seat. Twists and turns you think you have solved the mystery and then boom something else happens to make you change your mind

Although this is one in a series, it can be read as a stand alone police detective story, although, it’s definitely easier if you recognise the characters.

A young girl is snatched from the street, a plastic bag put over her head and she’s assaulted. What follows is the subsequent investigation. Why won’t she press charges? Each chapter is written from a different perspective and flows reasonably well. This book definitely required my full concentration. Not one to dip in and out of.
Overall, a good read, well constructed and with surprising twists.

3*

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the opportunity to preview in exchange for my honest review.

This is the first book I have read by Cara Hunter, and think that my enjoyment may have been slightly dampened because I wasn't aware that this is the fourth book in a series, so I didn't have an easy intimacy with the characters themselves, the dynamics of the team or their shared history. There are a lot of characters to remember, and I did find it somewhat confusing at times.
The pace of the book is good, and the subject matter is full of current hot topics; bullying, social media, incels, transphobia and hate crimes, the current wave of true crime series on television and stalking. However, these are quite superficially mentioned, so when the truth about the crime emerges, what should have been truly shocking felt somewhat dulled.
I would recommend this to fans of the series

My thanks go to the publishers and Net Galley for the advanced copy in return for an honest review.

If you appreciate a very modern detective story that is full of twists, turns, truths, half-truths and downright lies then this is a book you will definitely enjoy. Would have started reading it earlier in the day if I had known how good it was going to be. Sadly, I started it late in the day and so could not finish it in one sitting, my loss but you know that this really is a "one sitting" book. Go buy it and make sure you make time for an uninterrupted read.

This is the fourth book in a detective series featuring Adam Crawley. I have not read the others, so some references were confusing, and the epilogue is obviously a lead in to the next book. These books are very popular but I do not like series novels or detective novels, especially ones concerning pointless murders and nasty characters. I got bored and skim-read most of it.

I raced through this book in one sitting! There were so many things I loved about this book: how Hunter gave light to the hate crimes that occur every day to trans women, how she managed to portray this without being offensive to trans women (in fact, I thought quite the opposite - Cara did a great job at giving a voice to Faith!), whilst also keeping up with an engaging plot that had me hooked. Thanks for an advanced copy, Net Galley, I can't wait to read the rest of Hunter's works!

Absolutely brilliant! I haven't read any other books in this series, but I will definitely look out for them. The story is clever, and completely believable, and I couldn't put this book down. I know Oxford well, and it is nice to read a book set in Oxford which treats it as just anther city, rather than a romantic place with dreaming spires. I also like the police characters, who seemed like a real team, rather than a group of mavericks. I will be recommending Cara Hunter's books.

A teenage girl is snatched from the street, a plastic bag placed over her head, pushed into a van, driven to a remote site and assaulted. She doesn't want to press charges and this is just the first of many questions in this intricate story. When a second girl goes missing, Adam Fawley must not only investigate this crime but must also look at a past case with very similar circumstances. Did he get the right man or not? More questions, more twists, and turns in a complex but compelling plot.
I didn't work it out until near the end because it was clever and this is the reason I kept reading, to find out the answers to all those questions.
However, each chapter incorporated several different characters and their POV. Adam Fawley was written as first person, present tense and this I liked. You get to know Adam and what's going on in his head. Other characters are in third person and the paragraphs are sometimes short, too short to really get into the scene or into the character. I got the impression that some scenes were short just to leave the reader with a cliff hanger and for no other reason. And there were so many characters, it's not just the police investigating the crime who are given a POV but also bit players who are important to the plot but I didn't need the scene from their POV, it just made it confusing. This was not a book I could pick up and put down because when I did it took a while to get back into who was who. In the end, I had to just keep reading and finish it, it was the only way to keep on top of all the names.
I realise now that this is number 4 in a series. If I'd read the others, then most of the names would probably be familiar to me and I wouldn't have felt quite so lost at times. It does work as a stand-alone, but it's hard work.
Having said that, the plot is excellent, I just wish I could have spent more time with fewer characters.

First and foremost, thank you to Netgalley and Penguin UK Books for sending an eArc in exchange for an honest review.
This is a difficult one. Unlike the first two books in the series ( I haven't read the third ), the fourth instalment failed to engage me. Don't get me wrong, Cara Hunter's writing style never disappoints. I also love the format of this particular police procedural series. I've always appreciated the addition of newspaper reports, interview transcriptions and more. Also, the plot was clever and the story doesn't seem too rushed. It was an easy albeit slow read. However, it wasn't as thrilling and gripping as I've expected. The storyline was a tad difficult to follow.
Plus, there were too many characters for my liking, I got confused about who's who throughout the whole book. But I enjoyed reading from the different POVs / narratives. I loved Adam Fawley's character development in this one. Don't skip the other books. Otherwise, you'd miss it.

All in all, a great read still.
And that epilogue? Excuse me. I need the fifth book pronto.
Kudos, Cara Hunter for another great addition to the DI Fawley Adam series!

This was another fantastic instalment in the DI Adam fawley crime series set in Oxford.

I absolutely loved all three books in the series so far and this one was no exception.

I really love how multi media elements are used in this book series. They get more and more creative in each book.

I think the plot was really strong. I found myself constantly guessing as the story unfolded trying to figure the ending out, but I definitely didn't see it coming.

At times, it's not the easiest book to read. It's pretty graphic and definitely upsetting in places but there is also a sprinkling of humour which balances the book out well

There were lots of twists and turns, some of which were pretty shocking.

I cam not fault this series. If you like crime and you've not read this series (although they can be read as standalones) then you are missing out big time

TW: rape, sexual assault, murder and suicide

I would like to thank Netgalley and Penguin UK for an advance copy of All the Rage, the fourth novel to feature DI Adam Fawley of the Thames Valley Police Force.

When teenager Faith Appleton is found wandering the streets it is obvious she has been attacked but with little to go on and an initially unwilling victim the investigation doesn’t get very far. When another teenager, Sasha Blackford, goes missing DI Fawley can’t help but see parallels to a past case.

I enjoyed All the Rage which is a tense procedural with a full plot and plenty of twists and turns. I have loved the previous novels in the series but this one I didn’t find quite so gripping so it has taken me days rather than hours to finish it. I don’t have a reason for this, except perhaps my mood, as it follows the same format, a first person narrative from Fawley intercut with third person narratives, mostly from the team rather than the “other side”, press releases, court transcripts, police interviews and social media screenshots giving the “man on the street” view. It is an interesting approach and certainly gives the reader a wider perspective on events, although mostly they add little but pressure to the investigation. Having said all that I found the last quarter of the novel gripping as that is where all the disparate parts come together in a rather shocking finale.

I think the plot is rather clever as it has, as its basis, several real life crimes melded together to make what would seem a fairly unbelievable scenario if you didn’t know (as a true crime documentary aficionado I recognised some of them, by the end, I should stress, not during the novel). I liked looking back with this knowledge to admire Ms Hunter’s skill at weaving them together but all through the novel I appreciated the bombshells she kept launching to keep the reader on their toes. I think where the novel falls down that these don’t always have the impact they should as they get lost in all the different points of view and bogged down in other details. I have no doubt that the novel accurately reflects a police investigation with its emphasis on detail and a myriad of false leads and theories but it’s not always enough to maintain attention.

The first person narrative by Adam Fawley brings a more personal note to the novel. His wife is pregnant again after their first son died and is suffering from stress and anxiety. Throughout the novel the reader is led to believe that this is due to the pregnancy but secrets have a way of getting out, so maybe there’s more to it.

All the Rage is a good read which I have no hesitation in recommending.

Best book I’ve read all year.
Clever plot, interesting characters and extremely well written.
I read this in one go. I just did not want to put it down.
Focused on current themes and with some great twists.
DI Adam Fawley and his team investigate an attack on a young trans woman and the death of a schoolgirl in Oxford which look like copycats of a man that Fawley investigated and got sentenced to life imprisonment almost 20 years previously.
5 STARS 🌟

When a teenaged girl is found wandering the streets of Oxford in distress, the police are shocked by her story: snatched off the street by someone she didn't see, shut in a van with a plastic bag over her head, and assaulted, she is understandably traumatised, but refuses to press charges and won't say why. The case bears undeniable similarities to a case DI Adam Fawley worked on twenty years ago, but the man responsible for those crimes is still locked away, and Adam is certain they got the right man...isn't he?

When a second girl goes missing, Adam and his team must investigate not only the current crime, but also the past. Did they make a mistake twenty years ago, or do they have a copycat on their hands?

This is a well-written police procedural with several twists and turns - just when you think that you've worked things out, another spanner gets thrown into the works.

It wasn't a perfect novel for me - I've read other Cara Hunter books which I much preferred - but it's an enjoyable read for those who like police procedurals. There were a LOT of characters in this, and it was pretty dense, so at times I got a little lost as to what was what and who was who, and while some of the twists were ingenious, others fell flat for me, and I felt there was maybe one twist too many towards the end. I did like it, but I'm glad this wasn't the first Cara Hunter book I'd read.

Thank you to NetGalley, who provided me with a free ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I always enjoy Cara Hunter's books. I love the setting of Oxford, as I am so familiar with them. I grew up in the exact area described in this book and like the girls in the story, I often walked to the Vicky Arms with friends. A lovely spot. It is always nice to be able to place yourself in the location of the story.

I have to say that I did not find this story as enjoyable, or as mysterious as some of her previous work, but it was a good story and I would recommend it..

This is latest installment of DI Fawley although he takes something of a back seat in this investigation because the case has similarities to one he prosecuted many years ago - a case where the rapist has always maintained his innocence and said the Fawley set him up. In the current case, a girl is found walking along the street obviously distressed. At first, she doesn’t want to speak to the police but they persuade her to. Shortly after, another girl is missing and late found murdered in similar circumstances. This is a dark and disturbing case, really, but very gripping. Thanks to Netgalley for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

A girl is found missing she tells about a grab at the street a boy put a bag over her head then he subject her to assault
But the girl does not want to press charges
But when another girl goes missing she’s scared
I’ve had a ARC from penguin books

The fourth book in this series and totally honoured to review it. I absolutely loved this. Wanted to devour it but as it’s so well written, so griping, such a twisty-turns and brilliantly original story I savoured every last word.
I won’t spoil the plot but it’s a book you can either read as a stand-alone but you’d be better reading the first three as there is a story that runs through all 4 books following the police characters.
What I love most about the book? It’s believable.
In summary: another amazingly written, rollercoaster of a compelling ride written by easily the most talented writer. I feel she is the heir apparent of Ruth Rendell.
5/5 and I’m spreading the word!