The Whole Truth

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This is the fifth book in the Fawley series, so if this is the first one you’ve picked up you might like a quick summary of the key members of the team, so you can hit the ground running. Starting, of course, with the man himself …

Name

DI Adam Fawley

Age

46

Married?

Yes, to Alex, 44. She’s a lawyer working in Oxford.

Children?

The Fawleys’ ten-year-old

son Jake took his own life two years ago. They were devastated and thought they’d never be able to have another child. But now Alex is pregnant again …

Personality

Introspective, observant and intelligent, outwardly resilient, inwardly less so. He doesn’t care that Alex earns more than he does, or that she’s taller than him in high heels. He’s good at lateral thinking and bad at office politics.

He’s compassionate and fair-minded, but it’s not all positives: he can be impatient and he has a short temper. He was brought up in a dreary North London suburb, and he’s adopted, though he only discovered that by accident – to this day his parents have never discussed it.

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