![]() Agent: Anna Power, Johnson & Alcock (U.K.). Adam Fawley, the self-deprecating, ironic narrator of British author Hunter’s arresting, unnerving sequel to 2018’s Close to Home, leads the investigation into the case of a young. ![]() Readers will eagerly await Fawley’s next outing. Hunter exposes human frailties such as social and governmental missteps and policemen’s personal mess-ups while celebrating the essential humanity of those sworn to serve and protect. The painstaking work of Fawley’s highly diverse team emerges in transcripts of interrogations, emails, witness interviews, BBC scripts, and other documents that enhance authenticity. The subsequent discovery of a body buried in Harper’s garden raises the ante. ![]() The unidentified mother and son are taken to a local hospital, where a psychiatrist thinks the mother, who screams when questioned, is suffering from PTSD. The police arrest the house’s Alzheimer’s-afflicted owner, retired professor William Harper, but he claims he knows nothing about them. Adam Fawley, the self-deprecating, ironic narrator of British author Hunter’s arresting, unnerving sequel to 2018’s Close to Home, leads the investigation into the case of a young woman and a toddler, presumably her son, found imprisoned in the cellar of an old Oxford mansion. ![]()
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