Investigations demonstrate links to a missing girl two years previously, (and how DI Fawley and his team painstakingly identify the dots that join the two is just ingenious)!įawley and his team have their work cut out with what turns out to be an extremely complex case, and the author certainly brings these guys to life. It seems that they have been held captive, and the woman in particular is in a bad way, unable even to speak, such is the level of her trauma. The second in the DI Adam Fawley series gets off to a riveting start, with the discovery of a young woman and a child in the cellar of a former academic (who incidentally exhibits all the signs of dementia). The finger of suspicion has a tremendous workout right the way through to the conclusion of ‘In The Dark’, pointing out numerous suspects along the way, ensuring that the reader remains utterly gripped from the word go. But there’s something not quite right about the little boy from the basement, and the truth will send shockwaves through the force that Fawley never could have anticipated.Ī deeply unsettling, heart-stopping mystery of long-buried secrets and the monsters who hide in plain sight, In the Dark is the second gripping novel featuring DI Adam Fawley.
When he realizes the missing woman’s house is directly adjacent to the house in this case, he thinks he might have found the connection that could bring justice for both women. And no one is as innocent as they seem.Īs the police grow desperate for a lead, Fawley stumbles across a breakthrough, a link to a case he worked years before about another young woman and child gone missing, never solved. The inhabitants of the quiet street are in shock-how could this happen right under their noses? But Detective Inspector Adam Fawley knows nothing is impossible.
Do you know what they’re hiding in the house next door?Ī woman and child are found locked in a basement, barely alive, and unidentifiable: the woman can’t speak, there are no missing persons reports that match their profile, and the confused, elderly man who owns the house claims he has never seen them before.
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