Hope to Die

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This is a good story for Fawley, who comes across as having a new lease of life and it was fun getting an insight into his thoughts on this particular case and giving an interview about it, as well as the dynamic between the members of his team. A masterful, engrossing, twisty novel -- Rosamund Lupton, author of THREE HOURS on The Whole Truth --This text refers to the paperback edition. 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.

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. Richard’s wife Margaret backs up his story – they had retired for the night when they heard someone breaking in downstairs. in my paperback), there's a description of Fawley and Gis watching Gis's son throw bread to the ducks. Hope to Die is an intricately plotted story and the last few chapters absolutely had me on the edge of my seat. There is something not adding up at the crime scene from the beginning, and the team struggle to identify the deceased man.I’m such a sucker for formats that include like you said mixture of narrative, transcripts of interviews, Wikipedia-style entries, online chats, letters, news headlines so that alone would make me pick this book up. When the police arrive and knock at the door,at first no one answers then the door is opened by pensioner Richard. 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.

I must say though the Keli Lane case aspects, which the author was inspired by, was just a bit too repetitive if you've watched docos or read up on it.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. Quinn is still punchable, Gis is Honda Civic Reliable, Fawley is mysterious but brilliant, and so forth. Rather than synopsize this book I'm going to recommend you read the blurb or just go in blind and don't read too many reviews ahead of time. Speaking of which, Quinn has been reinstated as a DS and it was entertaining early on to see him to eager to set an example, but his egotistical ways are still very prevalent.

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. Despite these slight misgivings I enjoyed Hope to Die and will certainly look for book seven when it comes out. Thankfully Cara Hunter was kind enough to entertain me and answer my questions and tell me – politely – to read the acknowledgements section.I love these characters so it’s a delight to be back in Oxford especially now that Adam and his wife Alex have the joy of baby Lily Rose; these cases are always just the right blend of police investigation and the personal. Como é que dois velhotes que vivem num local remoto acabam envolvidos no assassinato brutal de um jovem? 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.