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Close to Home: The 'impossible to put down' Richard & Judy Book Club thriller pick 2018 (DI Fawley)

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Adam and his team become embroiled in the tensions and awkward relationships that exist within the Mason family and strange and unsettling details soon begin to emerge. This novel centres around a missing school girl Daisy Mason and her utterly dysfunctional family which is investigated by DI Adam Fawley , who is an interesting character with a sad personal history which became clearer as the book unfolded.

Adam and his team slowly find that every assumption they have made begins to slowly fall apart as they try to find out what happened. Lo interesante es que absolutamente todos los personajes cercanos a ella —familiares y amigos— son bastante sospechosos, por lo que nuestra tarea será descubrir quién es el responsable de la extraña desaparición de la niña. As our crew pick their way through false starts and mistaken assumptions, they eventually get some lucky breaks and make some progress.This fast paced well plotted novel kept me on the edge of my seat, urging DI Adam Fawley and his team to find Daisy. Even though we did get some of his tragic back story, I feel like we’ve barely scratched the surface, and I’m relishing delving more into his psyche as the series progresses. There were also twitter posts inserted throughout, containing sadness and well wishes from the public, as well as accusations, conspiracy theories, and escalations of violence. The detective literary market place is a plentiful one these days and I didn’t think this particularly stood out from the crowd. However after this initial discomfort Close to Home does settle down and the narrative of DI Adam Fawley becomes steadily more engaging and sincere, only for early probing to reveal that the Mason family have a closet full of secrets rattling around.

I thought things were going to be cut and dry in terms of who committed the crime, but in the end, I wasn’t even close to being right about. The precocious 8 year old Daisy goes missing at her parents barbeque and fireworks party for parents and neighbours. El argumento de la historia estuvo bien pero sentí muy artificiales algunas escenas que se desarrollaron.As is the case today, thoughts and feelings about the family are displayed for the whole world to read on the big wide web. Cara Hunter is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling crime novels Close to Home, In the Dark, No Way Out, All the Rage and The Whole Truth all featuring DI Adam Fawley and his Oxford-based police team. Cara introduces modern sources of information gathering including Twitter feeds, police interview reports, transcribed phone discussions etc.

But as the story goes back and forth in the timeline, it is obvious that almost nothing is as it seems. This is definitely trial by social media, with many of the posts making serious accusations without anything material with which to back up those accusations. Aparte de esa premisa, es muy poco lo que se puede decir sin caer en spoilers, pero a medida que se va acercando el final, comienza a ser cada vez más plausible un desenlace que la autora va orientando con pistas muy sutiles. Por ello, me dejé guiar por una corazonada y resulté leyendo repentinamente esta obra, con altas expectativas. Daisy's mother doesn't appear to be concerned and her father is more concerned in keeping a low profile than helping the police to uncover the truth regarding Daisy's whereabouts.Los «trinos» fueron pésimamente desarrollados, fueron irreales y absurdos, y estaban compuestos con un vocabulario que no correspondía para nada a la forma como los usuarios escriben por Twitter. No es lo mismo que un personaje desarrolle un plan, presente dificultades en su realización y que con improvisación e inteligencia logre salir adelante, a que el personaje diseñe su plan, lo lleve a cabo tal y como lo propone, pero necesite de coincidencias o «golpes de suerte» para que todo le salga bien. The first book in the DI Adam Fawley series, Close to Home by Cara Hunter, is one dandy of a debut novel and had my nerves fizzing from the start! As well as looking at the crime itself, Hunter examines the public reaction, and the outside perception of the investigation. Characterisation of both Sharon and Barry Mason is also weak with Barry never rising above seedy and Sharon appearing resolutely self-obsessed.

Lo más seguro es que siga con la serie del inspector Adam Fawley, que le da su toque personal con una trama paralela propia, aunque él, en esta entrega, no deslumbra especialmente, pero sí me gustaron mucho algunos integrantes de su equipo de investigación. Often there would be a plot reveal in the present, followed by the flashback relating to it, increasing my dread at every turn. A social media storm takes off, firstly mostly concerned but later a more trolling, toxic presence with its vilification of the parents, threats and more worryingly, incitement to violence and murder.This was an incredibly interesting story that could have taken predictable paths but fortunately offered something different.

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