Hope to Die

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they make some shocking discoveries and my jaw literally drops on occasions and possibly the odd little naughty may be uttered at some of the explosive revelations. As she did with the previous novel, Cara Hunter provides a little background précis of the central characters at the start of the book, which shows wonderful practical consideration for her audience.

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. Having recently cleared his name and become a father to a baby daughter, DI Adam Fawley is back at work and soon confronted by an extremely unusual case.Pages and pages of tiny writing that not only strained my eyes, but made me wish for more text, more story in the straightforward manner of a police procedural. Under questioning, Richard Swann and his more evasive wife Margaret insist that the man was an intruder and they were defending their household, but the police believe the real story is much more complex than that. 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. Tbh there were just a bit too many filler scenes and I didn't feel the main baddie's motive was clear enough. 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.

Richard's wife backs up his story that an intruder had broken in downstairs and Richard shot him in self defence. They changed their name and moved to Oxford seventeen years ago after their daughter Camilla was convicted on circumstantial evidence of killing her baby.Whittling my suspects down with very clever story telling, a very entertaining read and another hit from one of my favourite authors. What continually sets it apart though is the multimedia, as the many different types that are used provide layer upon layer of intrigue.

Como é que dois velhotes que vivem num local remoto acabam envolvidos no assassinato brutal de um jovem? 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. I recommend reading the series from the beginning to get to know the characters who are all well established.Looking into the Swanns background, Adam later discovers that they are not the bland, innocuous couple they claim to be. This is quite hard for me to review as this is my first Cara Hunter book and at the time of joining the blog tour I wasn’t aware this was book six of a series 😫 and only realised this once I started reading it and put it on goodreads as currently reading so I do think that sadly took away some of the reading experience as I felt like I had missed out on things from previous books.

I'll say nowt about the plot as all you need to know is in the blurb, (some of the reviews I've read were a tad spoilery 😬), but I will say it was great to be back sleuthing with DI Fawley and the team (well that's what it felt like 😄). 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. Before long, it becomes clear that the Swanns changed their name by deed poll after a notorious court trial in which their daughter, Camilla aka 'the chameleon', was convicted of the murder of her baby on the basis of circumstantial evidence, no body was ever recovered. Further inquiries then reveal that Swann is not their real surname and that the couple changed their name by deed poll after their daughter Camilla Rowan was convicted in 2003 of killing her newborn son six years earlier.

After the previous book, Fawley's personal and professional life is far more settled, there is joy to be found in baby daughter, Lily Rose, for both him and his wife, Alex, and he is more focused on fulfilling his ambitions for his police career. In the beginning before we discover the connection to Camilla, the Swanns come across as a somewhat quirky old-fashioned couple, but there was always going to be more to it than that. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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.