Murder in the Family, Cara Hunter
Murder in the Family, Cara Hunter
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Murder in the Family
A Novel

Bestseller

Author: Cara Hunter

Narrator: Lisa Armytage, Olivia Dowd, Rupert Farley, James Goode, Colin Mace

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/19/2023


Synopsis

ONE BODY. SIX EXPERTS. CAN YOU SOLVE THE CASE BEFORE THEY DO?Mega-bestselling British crime novelist Cara Hunter makes her big American debut with a wholly immersive thriller like none you've seen before: written as the teleplay of a true-crime documentary, it has the reader puzzling away, reviewing photos, maps, coroner's reports and other evidence as they read. The exciting multi-narrator audiobook features five actors telling the story from different perspectives. Can you tell who's lying?""An excellent, wholly original whodunnit! You won’t have read a mystery like this, and you’ll be kept in the dark right to the end."" --Gilly MacMillan, bestselling author of The Long WeekendIt was a case that gripped the nation. In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard (then aged 10), was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home.Luke Ryder’s murder has never been solved. Guy Howard’s mother and two half-sisters were in the house at the time of the murder—but all swear they saw nothing. Despite a high-profile police investigation and endless media attention, no suspect was ever charged.But some murder cases are simply too big to forget…Now comes the sensational new streaming series Infamous, dedicated to investigating—and perhaps cracking—this famous cold case. Years later a group of experts re-examine the evidence – with shocking results. Does the team know more than they’ve been letting on?True crime lovers and savvy readers, you can review the evidence and testimony at the same time as the experts. But can you solve the case before they do?

About Cara Hunter

Cara Hunter is the author of instant New York Times bestselling thriller Murder in the Family as well as the Sunday Times bestselling crime novels featuring DI Adam Fawley and his Oxford-based police team. Of those novels, Close to Home was shortlisted for Crime Book of the Year in the British Book Awards 2019 and No Way Out was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 100 best crime novels since 1945. Cara’s books have sold more than a million copies worldwide. She lives in Oxford, on a street not unlike those featured in her books. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ali on November 08, 2023

This was such a fun read because it has a really unique format. It follows a fictional true crime tv series so the book is written as a script. It also has graphs, pictures, newspaper articles, etc. So very visually fun! I bounced between the audiobook and physical book and both were fun. The audiob......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on February 11, 2025

My mind! My gray cells! Quick correction: my last remaining gray cells! It took me a day to gather my thoughts after reaching the end of this book, and even now, a day later, I am still rendered speechless. No words I can conjure adequately express my heightened emotions, immense admiration, awe, an......more

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on July 04, 2023

Twist Filled Entertainment 3.5 stars Murder in the Family is a thriller about a cold case that becomes the subject of a true crime Netflix series. Luke Ryder, married to a socialite/cougar, was murdered in 2003. The police were never able to solve the crime. Twenty years later, a group of experts, inc......more

Goodreads review by Jayme on September 19, 2023

3 stars because of the format! Mega-bestselling British crime novelist Cara Hunter makes her big American debut with a story about a cold case, a fictional true crime series, and the family caught in the middle. EIGHT EPISODES. ONE KILLER. The first of seven episodes of the new streaming sensation INF......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee on July 18, 2023

Who killed Luke Ryder in 2003 in leafy, expensive, elite, London, W8?? Luke is found at the bottom of the flight of steps for his teenage stepdaughter‘s. His stepson Guy Howard, then 10 and now a well-known filmmaker is determined to get to the truth of the unsolved case, no matter the personal cost......more