Cara Hunter has done it again!! I absolutely love the DI Fawley series and have read them all and this one was just as fantastic as all the others.

There’s a little recap section about the characters at the beginning, so that even a reader that isn’t familiar with the series can easily read this as a standalone book.

The story starts with what looks like a self defence shooting during a burglary, but soon Adam and his team realise that things are quite as clear cut as they first thought.

An unputdownable thriller full of twists and turns, I absolutely loved it and am actually gutted to have finished it as now starts the long wait to the next one!!

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin UK for letting me review this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Cara Hunter has done it again!!!
I am so so grateful for this book, after reading a lot of shoddy thrillers lately - this was a real blessing!

I loved the little recap at the beginning too. I have read every book in the Adam Fawley series, but with each book coming out over a year a part the little character recap was very much needed!

I was absolutely gripped - there were so many twist and turns in the plot. The more the book went on, the more mysteries there were to solve - very addictive. I love the mixed media too. The transcripts from interviews, newspaper sections, netflix scripts etc - just added that little bit extra and made it all feel all the more real.

I saw in the authors note section at the back that this book was based on a real life true crime story *not going to say which one as don't want to give away spoilers* and I can see myself going down a rabbit hole on youtube looking at clips!

Thoroughly recommend this book - even if you haven't read the previous books in the series, i'm sure you will still love it!

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.

We get the backstory of Camilla Rowen's case told through transcripts and a Netflix documentary. Every time you think you know what is going on, something else will be discovered and send you back to square one. I did have a few OMG moments - love it when a book gets to you like that. 5 stars all the way

Massive thanks to Penguin UK and Netgalley for my advanced copy of this book to read. Published August 18th.

How does this series keep getting better and better?! The sixth in the DI Adam Fawley series and just as fantastic as the first.

“Midnight. A callout to an isolated farm outside Oxford. A body, shot at point blank range in the kitchen.

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.

Suddenly Fawley's team are under more scrutiny than ever before. And when you dig up the past, you're sure to find a few skeletons...”

This book has everything you want in a thriller and it literally had me guessing until the very last page. Loved the Netflix sections too, I love these kind of quirks that this series always adds in. A wonderful new character added to the team in Chloe Sargent too!

Add this to the top of your TBR (and make sure to read the acknowledgments!)

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in return for an honest review.

This series gets better with each book. An absolute page turner from start to finish. Loved it, can't wait for the next in the series.

Hope to Die is a terrific police procedural which reads like watching a gripping TV series. What I particularly enjoyed about this one is that it’s inspired by a real case which has always fascinated me: an Australian woman called Keli Lane who is currently serving time after being convicted of murder. Hunter has taken that case as inspiration for a delightly twisty mystery which is slowly unravelled due to exacting police work.

The book opens with police being called to a remote farmhouse after a gunshot has been heard. A young man – apparently an intruder – has been killed, but there is no way of identifying who he is or why he was there. There are inconsistencies in the accounts given by the elderly couple who live there and as the investigation begins DI Adam Fawley’s team will realise that there’s more to the case than first meets the eye.

This is the sixth book in the series and part of its delight has been getting to know the characters. Now that Elly Griffiths has announced that the next Ruth Galloway novel will be her last (at least for the forseeable future), this might be a way to partially plug that void. If you can imagine a series that focuses only on Nelson and his team – no Ruth, no archeology, more focus on the crimes – this is similar to what that would be.

Honestly I struggled to put this one down and it was a case of reading well beyond lights out time as I flew through it. It’s a complete page turner, with lots of revelations and changes of direction that keep you gripped. Hunter has knocked this one out of the park.

Thank you very much to Penguin for the advance review copy via Net Galley.

DC Adam Fawley and the team are called to investigate a shooting on an isolated farm. It appears to be a burglary gone wrong, but Adam suspects there is more to it, and soon it becomes linked to an old high profile case. Another thrilling entry to the series that keeps you guessing. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of the book in return for my honest feedback.

Thank you for my copy of this book to read and review.

I have read all of the Cara Hunter novels so far and although these all feature the same characters, they can be read as standalone…the book starts with a handy catch up anyway.

I thought the storyline was original and fast paced. It left me guessing right til the end. One thing I particularly like about this one and the previous books are how they are broken up with news articles, online chats, transcripts and interviews etc. I’ve not seen this in any other books and it brings something different.

A well deserved 5 star detective novel and I’m looking forward to the next one..

Hope to Die by Cara Hunter
I give this book 4.5 stars

It looks like a burglary gone wrong, but then the police discover a connection to a high-profile case from years ago, involving a child's murder and an alleged miscarriage of justice.
Suddenly Fawley's team are under scrutiny from the press.And when you dig up the past, you're sure to find a few skeletons...

This is book 6 in the DI Farley series but can easily be read as a standalone thanks to a handy summary of the police team at the start of the story.
Firstly l love that the idea for this story came from a real life crime case and it certainly makes for a gripping and intense read.This author is a firm favourite of mine. She has an incredible talent of injecting a great level of realism and superb attention to detail with the police procedural aspects that make you feel like this story is playing out in front of you.For me this series gets better and better with each book and lm firmly attached to the personalities/characters of this well developed team during the investigation and their private lives.
With thanks to Netgalley, Cara Hunter and Penguin General UK for my chance to read and review this book.

Another brilliant book in the DI Adam Fawley series, having read the whole series I certainly wasn’t disappointed with this one. I’d also say that although it’s part of a series it could be read as a stand alone however I found having knowledge from the previous books was a massive help.

In the middle of the night DI Adam Fawleys team are called out after a passer buyer hears a gun shot. When the team arrive they find a dead man who has been shot lying on the kitchen floor. This looks like a burglary that has gone wrong however there is far more to this case than Adam and his team could ever imagine.

With no ID on the man who has been shot Adam and his team run his DNA through the system and a match is found between their victim and his mother who was arrested years ago and remains in prison on a life sentence for murdering her baby son. This opens up a whole can of worms for Adam and his team as this mother was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her son 13 years ago.

Pressure increase on Adam and his team as the press and the public demand to know how a mother was sentenced for murdering her son as a baby only for him to turn up shot and murdered by someone else years down the line.

Of course this investigation is not clear cut and there were so many different paths and just when a Adam Fawley and his team think they are heading down the right path they are thrown off course by yet another twist and more shocking turns of events.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for an advance copy of this review. I was so pleased to get an early copy of hope to die having read and loved the whole DI Adam Fawley series. Really hoping there will be another one in time to come.

Wow what a roller coaster. A seemingly simple case of shooting an intruder takes mystifying and unusual twists with links to a murder with no body 15 years previously.
Even right up to the last page it keeps your interest and the suspense.

A new Cara Hunter book is always a treat - and this is no exception. I read A LOT of crime fiction and think that Cara Hunter's books are among the best.

This is the sixth book in the series featuring DI Adam Fawley and his team - although there are some plotlines that run across the books (mainly to do with the team's personal lives and relationships), I think this could be enjoyed as a standalone novel.

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.

As always, the police investigation feels credible and realistic - the steps and breakthroughs are logical and clear so there's no suspension of disbelief required. Cara Hunter either has personal knowledge of police work or some pretty brilliant advisers! The people involved also seem plausible - the police team are well-developed as separate characters (and there's even a cast list with back-stories at the front of the book if you need a hand). There are also the relationships you'd expect in a team that work together so closely and intensively - the banter, the one-upmanship, the tensions.

It's impossible to write too much about the plot without giving spoilers, so I'll just say that it was engaging, very twisty and packed some genuine surprises. This novel doesn't rely on lots of graphic violence or a high body count for shocks (don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of all kinds of crime novel!) - it develops character and back-story instead, with the result that readers become invested in the plot.

I really loved that the story is told through a mixture of narrative, transcripts of interviews, Wikipedia-style entries, online chats, letters, news headlines and lots more. This really enhances the reader's sense of immersion in the story and credibility of plot. The only comment on this is that these inserts are in very tiny font and are a bit challenging on the Kindle - I couldn't get them to enlarge.

The Oxford setting of these novels always takes me back to reading the brilliant Inspector Morse stories by Colin Dexter. I'd say that Cara Hunter deserves a place in the crime writers' pantheon alongside him.

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.

Thanks to NetGalley for my copy in exchange for an honest review.

Holiday reading No 2, mysteries. Over the years, I have become a fan of Cara Hunter's cleverly constructed mysteries and have recommended her to friends looking for new English crime writing. 

"Hope to die", her latest is brilliantly plotted, loved it . Adam Fawley, DI and his team of Oxford detectives are called to a remote manor house where an apparent burglar was shot. Right from the beginning the story the owners tell has holes and Fawley discovers that they have changed their name after their daughter was sentenced to a long prison term for killing her baby. It takes 411 pages until this dark case is solved and I kept turning the pages fasr. What I like about Hunter's writing is the utterly realistic and plausible  way Fawleys team operates and go about their cases. Thumbs up from me !!

I do love a really good procedural and this one certainly fits the bill. We are back in the company of DI Adam Fawley and his team, with a story that is suitably convoluted, and with characters who are superbly drawn.

Camilla Rowan was jailed for the murder of her newborn baby some fifteen years earlier, when another murder occurs that proves that she couldn’t have killed her baby. But of course there is more the story than that, and DI Fawley and his team have to get to the bottom of what becomes and increasingly complex tale as the book goes on. Complex, yes, but always easy to follow and absolutely engrossing from start to finish. This book is number 6 in a series, but can be read as a stand alone easily.

Cara Hunter has done it again!

A fast paced police thriller that keeps you intrigued from first to last page.

DI Adam Fawley and his team have to unravel a recent shooting with ties to a 20 year old case. Who is the victim? What were they doing there?

With an intricate plot and a few twists and turns this book will keep you reading late into the night.

A brilliant 5 🌟 from me.

Thanks to Netgalley and Penguin for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A man visits the home of strangers late at night and winds up dead. The home owners don't report it but a person who happens to be nearby calls the police. DI Adam Fawley investigates and finds this is related to a case from some years back where a teenager was convicted of murdering her baby son just after he was born.

This was a great book and the best in the series in my opinion. I read it in a day. I found the story to be very intriguing and my interest never waned as the story unfolded. There was new evidence being turned up constantly. I also like the characters in this one although I admit that despite the cheat sheet at the front I still have some issues keeping some of them straight. Can't wait for the next one.

Adam Fawley Book 6 was FANTASTIC.

Read in a couple of days, I hated putting it down, when it was put down it was all that I could think about. I sneaked in chapters wherever I could, even in the queue at the supermarket!

Like the last book, there was a who’s who section at the beginning which was really helpful in remembering everyone. Alongside the story we have tweets, bits of newspaper articles and a Netflix series which I really enjoyed reading.

This really was another fantastic book in the series, it really is a fast addictive page turner from an author who is fast becoming one of my favourites.

Thank you to Netgalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Cara Hunter never disappoints! I am always excited to read a new novel from this author, and this one is no exception. With DI Fawley and his team in charge of the investigation into a burglary which appears to have gone wrong, the story is fast paced and utterly engrossing. It had me reading far too late at night, the twists and turns coming fast, and exercising the reader’s brain to keep up, and try to make sense if it all. Exciting and convoluted, I loved it. Highly recommended.
My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my advance copy of this title. I can’t wait for the next one.,

Utterly unputdownable
Another great instalment of the Oxford-based Adam Fawley series whose twisty plot kept me at the edge of my seat to the very end. Highly recommended, can‘t wait for book no.7!

I enjoy this series and found this a twisty and compelling theory. The characters in the series continue to engage me and their back stores are as engrossing as the plot of the murder.