The crowd at Abingdon Library fell silent as Cara Hunter, the acclaimed crime writer, prepared to answer questions. The event was overbooked, with many people on the waiting list. Abingdon Library regularly hosts talks with authors of both fiction and non-fiction writings and this was one of the most popular.

Cara answered questions on writing a crime novel and how her new novel, Murder in the Family, differed from her previous successful series of novels featuring DI Adam Fawley. The DI Fawley novels are based in Oxford, and have sold over a million copies. Murder in the Family has a much larger stage and is based on a true crime TV series where experts discuss a twenty-year-old unsolved murder that gripped the nation. The experts antagonism towards each other increases, as the net tightens, and one of them becomes a suspect. It is written in multi-media styles including TV script, discussion forums, press reports etc.

Murder in the Family will be out on 20th July 2023. Pre-publication copies sold out at the library.