Murder in the Family

By Cara Hunter

Book Overview

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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. 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 Weekend

It 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 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?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0063272075
• ISBN13: 9780063272071
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.4" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Amazing thriller in an original format!

This book left me guessing at each twist and turn. The ending was a shock that I did not see coming. And, not only was this book a compelling thriller, it was delivered in an original format! Murder in the Family is a great modern take on the thriller genre. There was no standard writing. Instead, we were moved through the case using scripts for a six episode Netflix documentary. The scripts were interspersed with call sheets, emails, text messages, newspaper articles, internet discussion forums and other miscellaneous documents. So much information is available today in many formats, especially over the internet. Cara Hunter taps into this with the way she formatted this book. She also incorporated the current obsession with true crime. Netflix creating a documentary like this is completely believable. Overall, this was a surprising journey to an unexpected conclusion. I truly enjoyed every second of reading this book. 5/5⭐️