I am a great fan of Cara Hunters Adam Fawley series and I was delighted to read the latest; a super twisty plot with great characters, both Adam’s team and the leading players. It starts with what appears to be a burglary at an isolated house in the middle of the night, where a young man has been shot dead in self defense by the elderly home owner. However there is an unexpected witness which puts a different light on it. Subsequently the victim is found to be the adult son of a woman serving 17 years for his murder as a new born baby. Such a complex case takes a great deal of unraveling, but what a journey! I found it almost impossible to put down - and the twists keep on coming right up to the end.
So enjoyable, a real 5⭐️ read.
Thanks to Penguin Random House and NetGalley for an ARC in return for an honest review.

This is another brilliant book by Cara, the sixth in the series, with so many twists and turns it makes you dizzy!

As usual there are print outs, WhatsApp, Twitter and other media bits and bobs thrown in, so that everyone can express their views. Just as you think you’ve solved it all, it isn’t until the end you realise you’re miles out, and really off sync with Cara’s clever writing.

I like Fawley and the team, and hopefully there will be more of this series.

My thanks to Cara, Netgalley and the publishers for the ARC.

Thank you NetGalley for this advanced copy. Cara Hunter is my favorite thriller author!! I love how her books have different formats: interviews, newspaper articles, etc. Suspense of these books are always so intense! So many twists, so many secrets, such suspense!! I am a little disappointed we didn't hear much about Fawley's wife and her baby, but in the next one! Highly recommended. Always five stars!

Another absolute cracker from Cara Hunter.
Some authors are great and others have this extra spark which elevates their work to another level altogether and this is a great example of that.
Twisty and tense from the word go, this is a tale of truth vs lies and whether it's possible for a character that you grow to loathe could possibly be the hero after all.
As usual for Ms Hunter, I worried that there wouldn't be enough pages at the end to tie everything up. I should have known better by now..
That roller coaster at the fair that looks like it's not going to stop before it hits the water? That's just how every single one of her novels has made me feel.
Withdrawal symptoms already.
Huge thanks.

I have been a big fan of Cara Hunter’s books from the very first one. The police characters are so well written, they feel like old friends. Thanks to Cara for putting a character description at the start of the book; this really helps you to quickly reconnect to them. The plot is fabulous, I was surprised to read that she was inspired by a similar real life case. The plot is fantastic and the quality of writing is superb. This is a truly exciting read by a master storyteller. Even if crime fiction isn’t usually your choice of genre, please read as it’s excellent.

I received this much awaited latest book by cara Hunter through netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

What can I say, it did not disappoint, I stayed up into the night to finish it as I needed to see if Fawley and his team got the baddy. Catching up with Fawley and team is like catching up with old friends and I was willing them on all the way.

I would highly recommend this book

Cara Hunter is one of the few authors that I would literally drop everything to read and when I received an email from her publisher asking if I would like a copy of the latest Adam Hawley book Hope To Die I downloaded it and started it immediately.

If you haven’t yet read any of these brilliant books, I would definitely recommend starting at the beginning with book 1: Close to Home as, in my opinion, each book is fantastic and whilst they can all be read as standalones, DI Fawley and his team are such an integral part of each story that the reader can really understand and relate to their particular situations and personalities having followed the series in order.

Once again Cara has supplied the reader with a little “who’s who” at the beginning of the book, giving us a quick recap and enabling us to jump straight back into the world of crime in Oxford.

Hope To Die starts off with a gunshot in an isolated house in a secluded part of the countryside and when the police arrive at the scene the homeowners, an elderly couple, appear shocked to see the police and upon further investigation, the police find a young man dead in their kitchen killed by a gunshot to the face. Richard and Margaret Swann don’t appear to be murderers, but their stories don’t match up and the evidence contradicts what they say really happened.

Once again the book has clever little chapters from different points of view and I particulary enjoyed the “Netflix” series which ran alongside the narrative from the main characters.

Another gripping, page-turning, addictive crime thriller from one of my favourite authors. 5 huge stars.

Loved this book!! Great storyline which was both believable (whereas sometimes crime stories do stretch your believability monitor beyond the max) and kept me guessing as to how it would resolve itself. As I was reading, I could see the characters as they would appear if it were to made into a TV drama. Have read other books by Cara Hunter and will definitely be looking for more.. 5 stars.

A 999 call is received reporting a shooting in a remote farmhouse. When police arrive the officers are led to the kitchen where a man lies dead - shot in the head by the householder who states he was an intruder that had broken in. DI Fawley and his team's investigation starts with trying to identify the victim and discovering exactly what happened by interviewing the householder and his wife. When the victim's DNA results come through a match is found to a woman in prison and a high profile case from several years earlier. Fawley and his team have to wade their way through a myriad of secrets and lies to solve the case.

This is another fantastic instalment in the DI Adam Fawley series with plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader guessing.

Thanks to Netgalley, Penguin Books and Cara Hunter for the ARC of this book in return for an honest review.

Book # 6 in the DI Adam Fawley series, and if you enjoy police procedurals, you’ll love this one.

Reports come in of the sound of gunshot at a remote farmhouse late at night. Police arrive at the scene, and even with their past experience, they find the sight of a dead man, shot in the head at very close range, pretty hard to stomach. The crime scene is horrific.

D I Fawley and his team head up the investigation, but it’s not going to be an easy one to solve. The victim has no ID on him whatsoever, not even a mobile phone, and the elderly couple who live there claim they don’t know him, insist it was a burglary, but investigators discover that not everything is as it seems.

Long held secrets from the past are about to be revealed, cold cases will be re-examined, and tough as this case will be to crack, Fawley and his team pull out all the stops, to bring one cold, calculating individual to justice.

Well what can I say that hasn’t already been said about this wonderful series. Cara Hunter has pulled it off again, producing a real page turner, with revelations and twists galore, in this complex, but utterly absorbing police procedural. Another winner for this accomplished writer.

‘Hope to Die’ is the sixth in the DI Adam Fawley series based in Oxford and it certainly doesn’t disappoint. Those who have read Cara Hunter’s previous novels will appreciate just how talented she is at creating really interesting characters as well as intricate plots; this latest offering shows that her ability to write a gripping crime story goes from strength to strength!
After a gruesome callout to deal with an elderly couple who have defended themselves against an intruder, Adam and his team soon realise that this crime is not as it first appeared. There’s an important backstory and, as the police explore this, they delve deeper and deeper into a history of infanticide. Why has a mother sought to get rid of her babies? Is she the heartless killer depicted in the press?
The author often makes use of different styles of storytelling and ‘Hope to Die’ furnishes us with reportage, a Netflix script, emails, interviews and Adam’s first-person narrative. This challenges the reader’s own detective qualities - an effective way of laying both false trails and useful clues.
Another gripping, fast-paced read from Cara Hunter. Her Oxford police team are interesting enough characters in their own right; add to their depictions another fascinating narrative and you have a winning combination. Highly recommended.
My thanks to NetGalley and Penguin General UK for a copy of this novel in exchange for a fair review.

I love Cara Hunter's books, the best kind of police procedural, and once again, Hope to Die was a fantastic read. The familiar police characters - Adam Fawley and his team - are back, with some new additions, and a baffling case to solve.

Camilla Rowan is in prison for killing her newborn baby twenty years earlier, although no body has ever been found and she swears she didn't do it - and a Netflix documentary series suggests that there are, at least, unanswered questions. Now, dramatic new evidence seems to prove that she is indeed innocent of the crime for which she was convicted. But of course, it's not that simple.

The story really centres around the character of Camilla, the "chameleon girl", and she's a hard person to understand, behaving in ways which most of us - to put it mildly - wouldn't. But is she a murderer, or is she herself a victim? The truth when it emerges is shocking - and more than a little heartbreaking - and that's all I'm saying.

I'm not sure why it wasn't called The Chameleon Girl, which is referenced throughout and feels like an obvious title. Hope to Die is snappy, but doesn't seem to mean that much other than as a reference to lying - which is certainly a theme.

A great read from an author who has rapidly become one of my favourites.

This series just gets better and better
None stop action
DC Adam Cowley and his team
face a miscarriage of justice
with plenty of twists, turns and red herrings
This read will have you on the edge of your seat thriller
Definitely not predictable

Adam Frawley is a captivating character and draws the reader in to his investigation. There is so much truth in this book around the risks of unearthing the past, the question as to what is the worst that can happen and what is right and wrong. Loved the Oxford setting, which was beautifully drawn and described.

A new Adam Fawley book is a cause for celebration, so I was rather surprised that he took something of a back seat in this very odd case.
We open with an anonymous 999 call. When the police investigate, they find an elderly couple and the body of a young man blasted in the face with a shotgun. The investigating officers are suspicious. Something isn’t ringing true in the elderly couple’s story about shooting a burglar in self-defence. But nothing prepares them for what their investigations reveal.
The victim is found to have a DNA match with a young woman currently in prison for the murder of her child.
From start to finish there was a sense of the truth eluding our detectives. The characters involved were slippery to say the least, and I was gripped from start to finish as we watched them trying to navigate their stories.
There were attempts to develop some of the other characters on the force, and I’m wondering where this will go next. Huge thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for giving me the chance to read this prior to publication.

Hope to Die sure kept me on my toes.

Police are dispatched to an isolated farmhouse, following a suspicious 999 call from a member of the public. Initially, there is no answer to their repeated knocking, even though there’s a light on upstairs. But, finally the door is opened by the homeowner, pensioner Richard Swann, who seems startled to see them. In the kitchen they discover the body of a young man – an intruder shot dead by Richard. Richard’s wife Margaret backs up his story – they had retired for the night when they heard someone breaking in downstairs. But, their version of events just doesn’t add up, the major flaw being that they didn’t phone the police neither prior nor after the incident. What are they hiding? 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?

I was tickled pink to be invited by the publisher to read an advanced copy of no. six in the DI Adam Fawley series – Hope to Die – as I’ve been a big fan of Cara Hunter’s from book one, and never miss an instalment. In fact I was so delighted, that I couldn’t wait another minute, and dropped everything to read it straightaway. And, I’m thrilled to report that it was just as incredible as the previous books.

Even though I’ve rated them all 5 stars, I thought it would be fun to rank them in order from best to worse, so here goes:

1. No Way Out #3
2. In the Dark #2
3. Hope to Die #6
4. Close to Home #1
5. All the Rage #4
6. The Whole Truth #5

Whew, that was tougher than I thought as they were all so good. As you can see, Hope to Die was right up there. Creepy, disturbing, exciting, fast-paced, with a high level of suspense maintained throughout, culminating in an explosive, satisfying conclusion. 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.ka. victims, witnesses, and suspects. There are no chapters, aside from a prologue and epilogue, but there are frequent paragraph breaks every time there’s a scene/POV shift.

Hope to Die could be read as a standalone, as I thought this one was more crime than character focused when compared to the previous books. There’s also a handy ‘Previously … in the Fawley Files’ chart at the beginning, a dossier of the team members to help new readers, and old ones like me, who have short memories. Three new characters joined Adam’s team, and they were all great additions, even if they weren’t all particularly likeable. One of the main characters (and I won’t spoil why) was largely absent from this book, and they were missed. But, I did get a kick out of a character who had a major role in The Whole Truth, making a brief cameo in this one.

As per usual, I loved the various methods used to reveal snippets of information – emails, voicemails, texts, online news articles, phone calls, newspaper clippings and even house plans. There were also transcripts of the Netflix series, and transcripts of police interviews, which I really loved as it eliminated the need for body language descriptions and dialogue tags, yet conveyed pertinent points concisely and succinctly.

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. I buddy read this with Pat, and Ceecee (because they couldn’t wait to read it either 😊), and all three of us enjoyed it.

I’d like to thank Netgalley UK, Lou Nyuar from Penguin UK, and Cara Hunter for the e-ARC.

Sorry for those that have to wait until the Publication Date: 18th August, 2022, but it will be well worth it

Wow! cara has done it again a great read that had me gripped from start to finish with a surprise ending that I didn’t see coming!
A great plot, fast moving, intriguing and compelling, great to be reunited with all of Fawleys team and to be updated re their current posts and family dynamics!
Wonderful characterisation of the main character such a deep, convulated, intriguing, manipulative, clever woman who constantly surprises you with her actions!
From the start when a gun shot was heard at an isolated house and we meet the swanns you are totally drawn in and eager to find out more, how this family have been living under such a cloud and now torn apart by such an awful event, the depths and repercussions of family loyalty and past mistakes!
A fantastic read that I would highly recommend!

I am a massive fan of Cara Hunter's books so was delighted to be able to read this one. I wasn't disappointed. It is a clever, twisty tale, and as usual is well-written and a great read. All the usual characters are here, and it is a real pleasure to spend time with "old friends". An excellent book, and I was sorry to finish it - I'm waiting for the next one now!

I am a HUGE Adam Fawley fan!

Any book Cara Hunter writes, I will read.

This one is no different, once more we see Fawley get drawn into an interesting case, Highly recommend

This is an author who really excels in making the reader feel as if they are part of story. The way she prints excerpts of newspaper reports, evidence logs, and cold case files really makes you feel as if you are discovering past crimes and tracking down leads along with the murder team. This story had me changing my mind every couple of pages as to whether different characters were guilty or not so I wanted to surge through the pages while at the same time trying to slow down and really savour the book. The facts of the case when they finally came to light left me reeling. I hope it won't be long before we get another case to investigate along with DI Fawley and the team.