Making a Killing
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4.6 • 32 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
*Contains an exclusive Adam Fawley short story*
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Tiktok sensation MURDER IN THE FAMILY and the DI Adam Fawley series comes a brand new gripping crime thriller about a figure from the past…
You thought she was dead.
She fooled you once.
Will she fool you again?
In 2016, eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanished.
Her mother was convicted of her murder. But her body was never found.
Now, evidence at a current murder scene calls the whole case into question. DCI Adam Fawley and the team are brought back to investigate. And they all have one question on their minds.
What really happened to Daisy Mason?
PRAISE FOR MAKING A KILLING
‘Chilling … Don’t miss it!’ – Shari Lapena
‘Intricate and cunningly plotted’ – Mick Herron
‘Clever, twisty, addictive and hugely entertaining’ – Andrea Mara
‘Inimitable Cara Hunter: immersive, bold, twisty and tender’ – Nicci French
‘Fiendishly clever and immensely satisfying’ – Lesley Kara
‘Fascinating, ingenious and spell-binding from a master plotter’ – Simon Mason
‘A brilliantly constructed tale’ – Fiona Barton
‘Twisty, fast-paced and immersive’ – JP Delaney
‘Ingenious, twisting and always captivating’ – John Marrs
‘I raced through this twisty mystery, wrong-footed at every perfectly executed turn’ – Victoria Selman
About the author
Cara Hunter is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling crime novels featuring DI Adam Fawley and his Oxford-based police team. Her books have sold over a million copies in the UK alone, and have been translated into 27 languages so far. Her third novel, No Way Out, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 100 best crime novels since 1945. Her first novel, Close to Home, sold over half a million copies, was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and was shortlisted for Crime Book of the Year in the British Book Awards 2019. The fifth book, The Whole Truth, was a Richard and Judy summer pick for 2021. The series is now in script development for TV, and the screen rights to Murder in the Family have been acquired by Neal Street Productions.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Detective Chief Inspector Adam Fawley returns for the seventh page-turning instalment of Cara Hunter’s Oxford-set crime thriller series. Making a Killing harks back to the first book in the series, Close to Home, cleverly casting the 2016 murder at the centre of that story—that of eight-year-old Daisy Mason—in a radically different light. Nick Vincent, producer of true-crime show Infamous, sets in motion a chain of events that leads Fawley to realise he came to the wrong conclusion about Daisy’s disappearance. As he and his team apply fresh evidence to everything they thought they knew about the case, twists abound, coupled with Hunter’s trademark brilliant characterisation and a fascinating exploration of the true-crime world, in which deaths are treated as mere entertainment fodder. Despite its links to an earlier title, this novel stands alone as a captivating story that will keep you guessing every step of the way.
Customer Reviews
Twisty and exciting plot
DCI Adam Fawley is given the task of overseeing two separate teams to investigate a body found in the Cotswolds. This is due to new evidence coming to light regarding the case of a suspected murder of an eight year old girl, Daisy Mason, some eight years earlier. At the time, Fawley and his team investigated and due to much circumstantial evidence, the child’s mother was charged and convicted of Daisy’s murder. Still protesting her innocence all these years later, Sharon Mason is astounded to discover that the police may have made a mistake. A HUGE mistake!
This is a slightly different Adam Fawley book. In this he is more the glue that holds the two teams together, whilst letting his colleagues take the lead and shine. A very twisty and exciting plot, that, if you can get over the issue of the police marking their own homework, it’s a book to lose yourself in and get totally absorbed.
I really liked the emails, news clippings, etc., and it was interesting to read Daisy’s journal.
Although part of a series, this works as a standalone too.
For anyone with the same arc problem I had, download via the NetGalley Shelf instead of Kindle. Formatting problem seemed to disappear.