Hope to Die

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PC Puttergill pulls on the handbrake and the two of them peer out of the window. It may have ‘Manor’ in its name but it’s actually just a farmhouse, though to be fair, a pretty hefty one – a gravel drive, a five-bar gate and an old mud-spattered SUV parked outside an open barn. It looks quiet, private and a little run-down, as a certain type of old-money home so often does. What it certainly doesn’t look like is a place where bad things happen. Hunter’s imagining of what happened to Camilla’s baby results in a fast paced, intricate plot, filled with suspense and some great twists. It really is an intriguing case. Fawley finds himself interviewing Camilla in prison and she truly is just as slippery and unhelpful as reported in her original interviews. A brilliant read, recommended for all fans of crime fiction. 4.5★ I don’t want to give too much away but at the centre of the puzzling conundrum is a character who is fascinating, who will make you recoil in horror and who is most definitely a chameleon who changes and lies with startling alacrity. That characterisation is superb as your emotions change as new evidence emerges. It’s full of very good twists and turns, it’s exciting and unpredictable and as yet another excellent addition to this outstanding series.

The story opens with a murder in a remote farmhouse – the police arrive, alerted to a gunshot, and find a body plus two householders who can’t quite explain what happened. The police assume it was a burglary gone wrong, but things don’t quite add up. When links are discovered to a past child murder, it seems that DI Fawley and his team have a very complex tale to unravel. They trudge up the drive, the gravel crunching beneath their feet, puffing white in the cold air. They can almost feel the temperature dropping; there’ll be ice on that SUV by morning. The story begins with a 999 caller reporting possible gunshots at an isolated Oxfordshire farmhouse. At first it seems that a burglar has had his head blown off by the elderly man who disturbed him, but when DI Adam Fawley and his team get involved, it soon becomes clear that this case might not be as cut and dried as it first appeared. Some aspects of the old man's account do not ring true and his wife is openly hostile. And when the couple are found to have a connection to a high profile murder trial 20 years ago everything becomes very complicated. Cara Hunter has hit this one out of the park and, if not for the format. I cannot wait to see what she comes up with next. Many thanks to Netgalley and Penguin General UK - Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Penguin Life, Penguin Business for the much appreciated arc which I reviewed voluntarily and honestly.I am a massive fan of the DI Adam Fawley series and Cara Hunter. I know that I probably say this every time, but Hope to Die might just be my new favourite. I did not want to stop reading it. Book 6 and the series just keeps getting better and better all the time, I loved that this one was inspired by a true crime from Australia, the case of Keli Lane. This book is seriously addictive. What at first seems like an easy case of an intruder being shot by an elderly man in his home, turns into a complex and twisty case that has links to a high profile case of convicted child killer, Camilla Rowan. There is something not adding up at the crime scene from the beginning, and the team struggle to identify the deceased man. DNA tests throw a huge curveball and the team suddenly have a massive task ahead of them. The DI Adam Fawley series just keeps getting better and better' Victoria Selman, Truly, Darkly, Deeply I hope Oxford will be getting a new TV crime series,” she laughs, “which is really exciting but we will have to see. It would be the icing on an already huge birthday cake but it’s out of my hands. Cara Hunter in Oxford’s Anchor Famous crime writer Cara Hunter is on a roll. Her new book Hope To Die, part of the best-selling Adam Fawley series, was published on Thursday, she has just signed a new four book deal with Harper Collins and TV companies are currently making a pilot of In The Dark for a new TV series.

Fast paced and a fantastic cast of characters. Kept me guessing to the end' Fiona Barton, author of The Widow When the police discover a connection to a high-profile case from years ago, involving a child's murder and an alleged miscarriage of justice, the press go wild. The sixth twisty, up-all-night thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling Cara Hunter. For fans of Shari Lapena, Claire Douglas and Lisa Jewell. When the police discover a connection to a high-profile case from years ago, involving a child’s murder and an alleged miscarriage of justice, the press go wild. In this sixth novel in the series, police are called out to a remote house in response to the report of a gunshot, heard by a man out photographing the stars. When they arrive, they find an elderly couple, Richard and Peggy Swann, with the body of a young man in their kitchen. The dead man, his face been destroyed by a blast from a shotgun, is holding a knife in his hand and the Swanns claim they woke to him breaking in and shot him in self-defence. However, they not only failed to call the police but some of the evidence also doesn’t add up to this being an attempted burglary for Adam.I was engrossed at the start of the book, I love a good murder and the whole trying to work out who had done it. Police procedurals are probably my favourite type of reads. So what is her standalone Murder In The Family about? “It’s based around a true crime show format, where experts are gathered to try to revisit an unsolved crime in London like police, psychologists and lawyers, put together to reinvestigate the case from scratch and interview all the witnesses again…..except one of them is the murderer. As I got further in the book I think I struggled with the format and the addition of newspaper articles, police interviews and similar information. I became a little distracted from what was actually going on. A young man is found shot at point-blank range. The shooter and his wife claim self-defense, but when a connection is made to a decade's old case, DI Adam Fawley and his team are under immense pressure to discover the truth.