Cara Hunter

The DI Fawley novels are set in Oxford and built out of documents: transcripts, news reports, tweets, case files, dropped between the chapters so the reader assembles the investigation alongside the team.

Hunter is a pen name for a writer who lives in Oxford, and the device works because the fake media coverage is convincingly stupid in the way real coverage is.

Close to Home was the first. The series has kept a strong sense that police work is mostly paperwork and mistaken assumptions rather than intuition.