DI Adam Fawley Series: Book 7
Publication Date: May 20, 2025
From the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok sensation Murder in the Family and the popular DI Adam Fawley series comes a brand-new gripping thriller in which a true-crime TV show turns up the heat on a controversial case from Fawley’s past…
When Nick Vincent, producer of true-crime show Infamous, hears about an explosive new angle on a high-profile case—the 2016 murder of an eight-year-old girl in Oxford—he leaps at the chance to send a researcher to verify the claims.
Two months later, a dog walker discovers a woman’s body, bound and buried in a shallow grave in the woods. Forensic evidence links the corpse to the disappearance of that same child.
DCI Adam Fawley, the original investigating officer, is called in to run the enquiry. And he remembers the case well—he arrested the child’s mother for murder. A murder he now knows she didn’t commit.
The investigation raises more questions than answers. What connects the two crimes? Where has the dead girl been all these years? How did she manage to disappear? For Adam Fawley, this is personal…
DCI Adam Fawley remembers the high-profile murder investigation where a mother was convicted of murdering her 8-year-old daughter, although no body was ever found.
In Making a Killing, the seventh installment of the series bearing his name, those memories come crashing back. Author Cara Hunter sets this story six years after Hope to Die ended but continues to build on existing characters while adding others.
The beauty of this series is the author continues to incorporate character summaries to help fill in gaps for out-of-sequence reading. Additionally, the series features a variety of interactive material, such as emails, police reports, newspaper articles, and social media posts within the text. This does make it a bit tricky to follow in places.
This time, though, a true crime show dredges up new information about the Daisy Mason case. Add in some unusual DNA from a woman’s body found buried in the woods that indicates a link to Daisy, who was killed eight years before. As a result, Adam must consider that the suspect he arrested might have been innocent.
Making a Killing serves up a well-crafted police procedural full of action as DCI Adam Fawley puts the pieces of the mystery together.
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.
