This is a chilling, utterly gripping crime fiction that grabs the reader so effectively that it keeps them glued to the novel right up to the final pages of the novel. Sin duda, este es el mejor libro de la saga, ya que primero hay que leer ¿Quién se ha llevado Daisy Mason? Here we see a much more human, much more emotional Fawley than we’ve grown used to, but thankfully it doesn’t seem to have much impact on his deductive reasoning abilities or his ability to solve this increasingly complex case. My only tiny quibble – you didn’t hear as much from Adam Fawley in No Way Out in terms of the investigation, but it was nice to read other characters’ development.

Entiendo que ha querido presentar personajes y circunstancias, pero se le ha ido un poco de las manos. Me enganchó rápidamente con capítulos dedicados a contar la historia de la familia meses antes de la tragedia del incendio, en una especie de cuenta atrás hasta el mismo día del incendio. Given the strength of her writing, and the groundedness of her world and her characters, that’s unlikely to happen any time soon.I like the way too that we seem to have a possible solution and then new evidence comes in that alters the perspective.

DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Penguin Books UK via NetGalley for providing a digital ARC of No Way Out by Cara Hunter for review.In this police procedural, DI Fawley takes a more backseat role, and for good reason, he is an emotional wreck as a schism has opened with his wife, Alex, who has left him to stay with her sister. The case we start out with is more or less unrecognisable by the time we reach the end, but there’s a logical progression – and, thankfully, a logical solution – that leaves us feeling satisfied and entertained. Again there's an even split between the police investigation in the present, and what led up to the crime, in this case 317 days before the fire working forward. But despite everything that unfolds it's still hard to believe that a father could do this to his family and disappear without a trace. As always, the strength of Hunter’s storytelling lies in her ability to constantly keep us on our toes.