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Cara Hunter Books in Order

Cara Hunter has written 10 books, published between 2018 and 2025. The first book is Close to Home (2018) and the newest is Making a Killing (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
2018–2025
Confirmed
9 of 10 titles
Pages on record
2,292 in 6 of 10 books
Reading time
38–57 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,292 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

See all 10 books in order Printable Cara Hunter checklist

Cara Hunter is a British writer of crime thrillers, with 10 books catalogued between 2018 and 2025. Hunter writes the DI Adam Fawley series, and police procedure, missing children and England feature among the subject headings. Close to Home (2018) is the first title, followed by In the Dark (2018) and No Way Out (2019). Making a Killing (2025) is the newest, and Hunter also has standalone novels and short fiction.

How many Cara Hunter books are there?

Cara Hunter has 10 books, released between 2018 and 2025. 7 of them belong to the DI Adam Fawley series.

Cara Hunter Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Cara Hunter books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Close to Home by Cara Hunter, book 1 of the DI Adam Fawley series (2018)
  2. Cover of In the Dark by Cara Hunter, book 2 of the DI Adam Fawley series (2018)
  3. Cover of No Way Out by Cara Hunter, book 3 of the DI Adam Fawley series (2019)
  4. Cover of The Whole Truth by Cara Hunter, book 5 of the DI Adam Fawley series (2021)
  1. 1
    Close to HomeDI Adam Fawley #12018 · 292 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018292
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  2. 2
    In the DarkDI Adam Fawley #22018 · 400 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018400
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  3. 3
    No Way OutDI Adam Fawley #32019 · 384 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019384
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  4. 4
    All The RageDI Adam Fawley #42020 · 464 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020464
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  5. 5
    The Whole TruthDI Adam Fawley #52021 · confirmed 3/4
    2021–
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  6. 6
    Hope to DieDI Adam Fawley #62022 · confirmed 3/4
    2022–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Murder in the FamilyCara Hunter Standalone Novels #12023 · confirmed 3/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    You Know Who2024 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2024384
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    DecentCara Hunter Short Stories/Novellas #12025 · confirmed 3/4
    2025–
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  10. 10
    Making a KillingDI Adam Fawley #72025 · 368 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2025368
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Cara Hunter books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

DI Adam Fawley in order

7 books
  1. 1. Close to Home
  2. 2. In the Dark
  3. 3. No Way Out
  4. 4. All The Rage
  5. 5. The Whole Truth
  6. 6. Hope to Die
  7. 7. Making a Killing

Cara Hunter Standalone Novels

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Cara Hunter Short Stories/Novellas

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

1 book

1 Cara Hunter title here is not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Cara Hunter books in order?

You only need to read Cara Hunter books in order within the DI Adam Fawley series, which holds 7 of the 10 Cara Hunter books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Cara Hunter

Start with Close to Home (2018), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Cara Hunter book?

Making a Killing (2025) is the newest Cara Hunter book released so far.

Is there a new Cara Hunter book coming?

No next Cara Hunter book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Cara Hunter at a glance

Still publishing
Cara Hunter published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Cara Hunter books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,292 pages across the 6 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Cara Hunter books, 7 of 10, were published in the 2020s.

What the Cara Hunter books are about

6 of the 10 Cara Hunter books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: english literature is tagged on 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.