Detective Inspector Adam Fawley is the titular protagonist of a series of books by Cara Hunter. They are Police Procedural novels set in Oxford but notably not about Oxbridge.
Books in the series
- Close to Home
- In the Dark
- No Way Out
- All the Rage
- The Whole Truth
Tropes
- Accidental Murder: In No Way Out.
- Babies Make Everything Better: Alex and Adam's relationship has been ruined since their son Jake's suicide. Then Alex finds out she's pregnant and their relationship is back on.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Vicky Neal and Pippa Walker from In the Dark.
- Children as Pawns: In The Whole Truth, Marina Wheeler is revealed to manipulate her ambiguously autistic son into claiming that he was sexually abused by his babysitters, her (male) PhD students, in order to force them into a sexual relationship with her.
- Corrupted Character Copy:
- Close To Home: The genius girl (Daisy) from a lower middle class apparently not particularly intelligent family bears a passing resemblance to Matilda. And she fled town with her teacher as her adopted mother. But Daisy is heavily implied to be a sociopath, meaning that the teacher should watch out.
- In The Dark: Vicky from No Way Out for Ma in Room. Both are apparently young women held captive as a Bunker Woman where they were raped repeatedly over a period of years and conceived a son with their captor. But Vicky isn't. She's faking it all for attention and money.
- Cain and Abel: Vicky and Tricia Neal from In the Dark.
- Driven to Suicide: Adam and Alex's son Jake was deeply depressed and committed suicide before he was a teenager.
- Evil Versus Evil: The Whole Truth. Marina coerces her students into sexual relationships with the threat that they and or their girlfriends will be accused of child abuse. However, when Caleb Morgan got revenge on her, he really did drug and rape her.
- Faking the Dead: Despite being a child, Daisy fakes her own death with the help of her teacher Kate in Close To Home.
- Rescue Romance: Alex and Adam met when Adam was investigating her rape.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Dr William Harper in In the Dark.
- Stalker with a Test Tube: In In the Dark, this is how Vicky got pregnant, although it really was all for the scam.
