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Cari Hunter

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Crime, Gay and Lesbian, Mystery

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April 2012

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Cari Hunter lives in the northwest of England with her wife, their cats, and a field full of sheep. She works full-time as a paramedic and dreams up stories in her spare time.

Cari enjoys long, wind-swept, muddy walks in her beloved Peak District. In the summer she can usually be found sitting in the garden with her feet up, scribbling in her writing pad. Although she doesn’t like to boast, she will admit that she makes a very fine Bakewell Tart.

She has written eleven novels, including the Dark Peak series, and has won multiple Goldie and Rainbow awards. In 2024, she won the Best LGBTQ Mystery Lambda for A Calculated Risk, the first book in the DI Jo Shaw series.

The Stolen Girl, the second book in the DI Jo Shaw series, will be released in J ...more

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Average rating: 4.32 · 7,865 ratings · 1,181 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	No Good Reason (The Dark Peak, #1) 4.37 avg rating — 1,201 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snowbound 4.03 avg rating — 1,082 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold to the Touch (The Dark Peak, #2) 4.42 avg rating — 865 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desolation Point 4.17 avg rating — 843 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Quiet Death (The Dark Peak, #3) 4.51 avg rating — 699 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unbreakable 4.57 avg rating — 681 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breathe 4.27 avg rating — 657 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alias 4.20 avg rating — 615 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Calculated Risk (DI Jo Shaw #1) 4.36 avg rating — 522 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tumbledown 4.36 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Desolation Point Deleted Scenes

I dipped into Desolation Point a few weeks ago while I was on my hols. It’s not my favourite of mine by a long shot, but I do still have a lil’ crush on Sarah so it’s fun to occasionally flick through it. Anyway, not a lot of folks know this, but the published book is missing about 8000 words from its ending. They were cut during editing and they’re a mixture of “yes, these are very self-indulgent

Series by Cari Hunter

The Dark Peak (4 books)
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Desolation Point Tumbledown (2 books)
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DI Jo Shaw (2 books)
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Cassiel's Servant (Kushiel's Legacy)

by Jacqueline Carey (Goodreads Author)

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Mountains of the Gods: The Himalaya and the Mountains of Central Asia

by Ian Cameron

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Cari Hunter made a comment on Desolation Point Deleted Scenes " Allie wrote: "I just read this book & really enjoyed it. Will have to flick onto your website to read the deleted bits...Thanks!" That was excellent ti ...more "
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Cari Hunter made a comment on her review of A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) " Liezl wrote: "🤣 I concur" It's so bad, I no longer like the person at work who told me she'd loved it. ...more "
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Cari Hunter rated a book it was ok We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1) by Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
After many years, I think I've finally given up on Karin Slaughter. I DNF-ed the last couple of hers that I tried to read, and I barely made it to the end of this one. As a kick-off point for a new series, it's a long-winded police procedural, full o ...more
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Cari Hunter rated a book did not like it A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I only paid 50p for this, and I still want my money back. Side note and a warning from a health care professional: If you ever use this book for a drinking game, do not include ellipses or em dashes. You will be dead of alcoholic liver poisoning befo ...more
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“He might not have been the brightest spark on the TAU, but he knew how to kick a door down,”
― Cari Hunter, Cold to the Touch

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“I was fully intending to cook you something complicated and delicious,” Meg said. “But then I started to watch this nature documentary, and a fluffy baby seal was being chased by a polar bear, so I muted it and shut my eyes, and when I woke up it was two hours later. How does soup and toasties grab you?”
― Cari Hunter, A Quiet Death

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“You can’t possibly be thinking of sending him home! He can barely walk.” Meg’s smile began to slip. Ambulance crews were queuing almost out the door, and all this lad needed was a stat dose of Man-the-Fuck-Up.”
― Cari Hunter, A Quiet Death

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