Hope to Die

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Overall, I’d recommend this to lovers of clever and immersive police procedurals – once you’ve met DI Fawley and his team, you’ll definitely want more. stars - this was a real page turner but it was more the format than the storyline that had me hooked. However, the identification of the killer and reason why all seems to be described in somewhat of a rush, leaving the reader slightly deflated. My favourite feedback is when readers tell me it's like getting the raw material of the case, so they can be detectives themselves. Cara Hunter is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling crime novels Close to Home , In the Dark , No Way Out , All the Rage and The Whole Truth all featuring DI Adam Fawley and his Oxford-based police team.

However, I can acknowledge it might be trickier for series newbies to get a grasp, which is why the "Fawley Files" within the cover are another great touch.

The story does a draw comparison between the workings of two very different mothers within the story, one of which is Adam’s wife and the other the wife under suspicion. POV’s included our regulars who appear in every book - Adam Fawley and his team as we follow their investigation, and those connected to the crime a. I have now read all of the instalments except book two - In The Dark - which I hope to get around to soon. It’s truly a case of fact being stranger than fiction and worth looking up the reports or podcast made about her after finishing the novel.

At first DI Adam Fawley’s team is pretty stumped, there is not much to go on but gradually through a lot of hard graft they learn that the couple had changed their names some years ago.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. An all round winner, and I have no hesitation in recommending this book, and the entire series, to mystery, crime, thriller, psychological suspense, domestic drama, and police procedural fans. And, what does it have to do with a shocking, sensational crime from the late 90’s, that’s recently been turned into a Netflix’s documentary series? Whittling my suspects down with very clever story telling, a very entertaining read and another hit from one of my favourite authors.

Shootings don’t happen often and there are a few things about the scene that don’t seem quite right.And yes, this is based on a true story, but since other creative liberties were taken, I think it would've been worth it to make the motive a bit clearer.

When the uniforms arrive there is a man lying dead on the kitchen floor with his face blown off by a shotgun blast, pretty gross I know. I've always been a voracious reader and viewer of crime - I've learned so much from the outstanding writing that we now see on crime TV like Line of Duty or Broadchurch, and I've tried to recreate the experience of watching series like that for my readers. In the acknowledgements, Hunter notes that Camilla’s history of multiple unplanned and secret pregnancies, resulting in two babies given up for adoption in addition to the missing baby, is based on the case of Australian Keli Lane. 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. At times the story almost seemed over-complicated, although the case was satisfactorily solved in the end but there were still one or two issues that I felt were open to interpretation – which for me is a good thing.As Adam and his hardworking team look into the past, at the previous police investigation and Camilla as a schoolgirl, her multiple pregnancies, her friends and family, and the present, who is the dead man and how did he come to make the fateful visit to the farmhouse to see the Swanns? You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The sub-plot about Somer is quite sad, but the three new additions to the team are all great and it does not take long to get to know them. Her baby’s body was never found but, after keeping her pregnancy secret from her family and friends, he simply disappeared the day Camilla left hospital with him and her explanations of what happened to him were vague and inconsistent.