“I think it is very interesting to see real crime turning up in fiction and in TV and film. Inspired by several true crime stories - including the well-known Elizabeth Fritzl case in Austria, in which a woman was held captive, assaulted, and raped by her father for 24 years, as well as the now-infamous Ariel Castro case in Cleveland - In the Dark may seem like it takes readers down a familiar road, but its final destination is anything but expected. Hunter's new book is a gripping suspense novel about misguided assumptions and secrets hidden in plain sight. And so begins Cara Hunter's latest novel, In the Dark. Neighbors are unable to believe something so horrific could happen so close to home without anyone suspecting a thing. The owner of the house and its only resident - beside the two apparent prisoners, that is - is an elderly man with dementia who insists he has never seen the woman or the boy before. With a story that feels all too real, Close to Home is the best kind of suspense-the kind that sends chills down your spine and keeps you up late at night, thrilled and terrified.During a routine home renovation of a house on Frampton Road, a quiet residential street in a suburban neighborhood just an hour outside of London, builders have made a shocking discovery: On the other side of a wall shared with a neighboring home, a young woman and a small child are locked in a basement, barely alive. But everyone has an opinion, and everyone, it seems, has a secret to conceal. ĭI Fawley works against the clock to find any trace of the little girl, but it’s as if she disappeared into thin air-no one saw anything no one knows anything. And then there’s Daisy’s little brother, so withdrawn and uncommunicative.
And Daisy’s family is certainly strange-her mother is obsessed with keeping up appearances, while her father is cold and defensive under questioning.
When eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanishes from her family’s Oxford home during a costume party, Detective Inspector Adam Fawley knows that nine times out of ten, the offender is someone close to home. A brilliantly plotted psychological crime novel about a missing child and the scandal that erupts in the aftermath with a shocking twist
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