All The Rage
A teenage girl is found wandering the outskirts of Oxford, dazed and distressed. The story she tells is terrifying. Grabbed off the street, a plastic bag pulled over her face, then driven to an isolated location where she was subjected to what sounds like an assault. Yet she refuses to press charges.
DI Fawley investigates, but there's little he can do without the girl's co-operation. Is she hiding something, and if so, what? And why does Fawley keep getting the feeling he's seen a case like this before?
And then another girl disappears, and Adam no longer has a choice: he has to face up to his past.
Because unless he does, this victim may not be coming back .
I read the first DI Fawley but can't remember that much about it. I'm not sure that you need to have read the others to catch up with what is happening.
There was a lot of use of social media text or images. For me this doesn't work on a Kindle, you can't enlarge the images and so you can't read them easily.
Early on in the book they “allegedly” download from the internet a birth certificate. This is not possible, only the indexes are available and the certificate has to be applied for. The indexes don't contain that much information and they would have needed to know the mother's maiden name. Sloppy work there. Also I couldn't even read the certificate as it was so small, not a great idea. Some of us read on a Kindle as you can enlarge the text.
I didn't like the switching between first and third person in the narrative either.
Overall the twists and turns made for a good read.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC in return for an honest review.