The serial rapist whom British Detective Inspector Adam Fawley caught 20 years ago is still serving time and proclaiming his innocence. Now someone else is attacking young women using the same methods. Is it a copycat killer or something much more insidious? The answers in the hypnotic thriller All the Rage by Cara Hunter (Murder in the Family) will leave readers gobsmacked.
A minicab driver finds Faith Appleford, a college student who has been assaulted, stumbling along the road. When D.I. Fawley's team conducts a follow-up, Faith's mother acknowledges her daughter was abducted, but she insists it was just a prank. Days later and near the Appleford household, 15-year-old Sasha Blake is reported missing. Fawley's team has reason to suspect the two incidents are connected; plus, the method by which both Faith and Sasha were abducted shares too many similarities to a serial rapist case Fawley solved two decades ago. Local press and online wannabe detectives imply law enforcement never caught the real culprit and that evidence was manufactured to frame an innocent man. Adding fuel to the fire, the incarcerated rapist's case just happens to be up for review. Suddenly, Fawley gets sidelined as his career-making case faces scrutiny and another victim is targeted. Rage is the driving force of All the Rage, and the alternating viewpoints of Fawley, his teammates, and excerpts from the original trial transcripts ratchet up the tension.
Although this is the fourth installment of Hunter's DI Adam Fawley series, this powerful story of a complicated detective seeking a balance between justice and the law can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel. --Paul Dinh-McCrillis, freelance reviewer