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    Close to Home: A Novel

    Written by Cara Hunter

    Narrated by Lee Ingleby and Emma Cunniffe

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    About this audiobook

    A truly original psychological crime novel about a missing child and the scandal that erupts in the aftermath, brilliantly plotted with a shocking twist

    She was certain it was Daisy in the flower costume. . . .

    It's every parent's worst nightmare. When eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanishes from her family's Oxford home during a costume party, Detective Inspector Adam Fawley knows that nine times out of ten, the offender is someone close to home. And Daisy's family is certainly strange—her mother is obsessed with keeping up appearances, while her father is cold and defensive under questioning. And then there's Daisy's little brother, so withdrawn and uncommunicative. . . .

    DI Fawley works against the clock to find any trace of the little girl, but it's as if she disappeared into thin air: no one saw anything; no one knows anything. But everyone has an opinion, and everyone, it seems, has a secret to conceal. As the Masons come under closer scrutiny and every move the police makes is dissected under the glare of the press and an increasingly hostile flurry of social media, secrets begin to unravel and accusations fly. But will the unfolding drama and scandal bring the police any closer to the truth?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 6, 2018
    ISBN9780525587972
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    Close to Home: A Novel
    Author

    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.  Find out more at cara-hunter.com

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    • 4/5
      GREAT!
      Well written mystery, very absorbing. Kept me listening and interested all the way to the deliciously surprising ending! (I loved the cover of this audiobook and, okay, may have been partly why I chose it! But, don’t we all do that sometimes, even though they (they??) tell us not to!).

      Anyway, well done! It had the always fascinating premise of the Dysfunctional Family going on, with lots of suspects, and I found myself frequently changing my mind as to who actually “did it”. However, I never would have guessed the surprise that turns up in the end.

      Very well narrated too, by the way. There is one male and one female narrator, both very good. However, with some technological trick it ends up sounding like there are a whole cast of narrators which I thought was very cool.

      So, to summarize, I would say this is a great listen with excellent narration, well worth the time. Recommend!!