Making a Killing

A Novel

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 showInfamous, 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...

Unsatisfactory endings spoil good books

Engaging till the end, and then *SPLAT, or should I say *fizzle* - what a letdown! Crime fans read books for resolution and non-resolution leaves a bad taste that taints all that came before.

Also, since the ending was such a non-ending, it would have been helpful to actually say “The End” before rolling without pause into a tacked-on short story. I had to rewind and then go searching on the internet to confirm that, yes, that was the end, and the final 40 minutes of audio are something unrelated!

The narrators are amazing, particularly Lee Ingelby, who couldn’t sound more natural if he were sitting in your living room chatting to you.

I’ve read the whole series and feel let down by this entry, which while intriguing and cleverly plotted, is also unfinished, which I find irritating. I don’t mind a small teaser to entice readers to the next book, but just totally open-ended after a 12-hour investment is a bitter pill.