Hope to Die

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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.

Hope to Die is very clever story telling. Cara Hunter weaves in several themes, each with a nod to real-life cases: a notorious and non-communicative central female character (convicted of infanticide and reviled as a child-killer); a possible miscarriage of justice; a remote farmhouse where an elderly couple with a shotgun confront a so-called burglar, an investigative journalist called John Penrose and a four part Netflix exposure. This is a rich and heady brew! And just when I thought I had a fix on the unfolding events Hunter threw another hand grenade into the mix and I had to think again. Midnight. A callout to an isolated farm outside Oxford. A body, shot at point blank range in the kitchen.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. Similar to the past books in the series, the sixth addition to the DI Adam Fawley series promises to deliver from the very start. This time, the Oxfordshire Police struggle to put the pieces together when a strange case of what at first appears to be a burglary gone wrong reaches their department. DI Fawley and his team work to solve the puzzle and create a timeline that spans decades and involves a family tragedy and many red herrings.

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. It looks like a burglary gone wrong, but DC Adam Fawley suspects there's something more to it. Who exactly was the aggressor here? The sixth twisty, up-all-night thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling Cara Hunter. For fans of Shari Lapena, Claire Douglas and Lisa Jewell. Cancel everything. You're not going anywhere until you finish reading' Emily Koch, author of If I Die Before I Wake 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…”Fast paced and a fantastic cast of characters. Kept me guessing to the end' Fiona Barton, author of The Widow