Title: Hope to Die
Author: Cara Hunter
Narrated by: Emma Cunniffe, Lee Ingleby, Roy McMillan
Publisher: HarperAudio
Length:
Approximately 11 hours and 21 minutes
Source: Audiobook purchased from Amazon.com. Thank you, Partner @bibliolifestyle @williammorrowbooks for the physical copy of the novel.
Do you have any favorite fictional detectives? I love the classic detectives – Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Miss Marple, but I always love to find new and fascinating detectives to read about.
Detective Inspector (DI) Fawley and his team are called into a gruesome and puzzling murder scene in Oxford, England. At a remote home, an elderly man has killed an intruder. At first it seems like a burglary gone wrong, but as the team investigates further, they discover there is much more to the story. I loved all the twists and turns, so I am not going to go any further with the summary.
My thoughts on the
novel:
· Hope to Die is the sixth novel in the DI Adam Fawley series. This was the first book I’ve read in this series, and it worked well as a standalone novel. I definitely want to go back and read the other books in the series.
· There is a great list of characters at the start of the book with detailed descriptions of them. This really helped when you are starting this series six books in. I could see this helping to refresh one too even if you had read other novels in the series, but it has been a while.
· This mystery was very twisty and turny. I kept thinking I knew what was going on, but then the story would take another left turn.
· There was a fun reference to Thomas Hardy books in this novel which was fun as I am currently reading Far From the Madding Crowd for my Back to the Classics Book Club.
· Hope to Die was very well written and intriguing to listen to in an audiobook. I always enjoy the use of different narrators for different viewpoints.
· Hope to Die was written in a unique format. Mixed media is used such as case files, interviews, letters, news stories, excerpts from a Netflix special, etc. There are no chapters, but sections are broken up for readability.
· The Acknowledgements section has interesting information about a real-life case that inspired this story. The real-life story has a documentary on Prime Video discussing the case. I just added it to my “to watch” list.
· This is a very popular crime procedural series and I’m glad I’ve found it.
Overall, Hope to Die by Cara Hunter was an intriguing suspense mystery with a complex case and great ending. I highly recommend this novel.
This book was
published on June 11, 2024.
