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Cari Hunter

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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, was released in June, ...more

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	No Good Reason (The Dark Peak, #1) 4.36 avg rating — 1,255 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 4.04 avg rating — 1,108 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) 4.43 avg rating — 902 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 — 864 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) 4.52 avg rating — 733 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 4.56 avg rating — 713 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 — 680 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 4.22 avg rating — 630 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 — 569 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 — 416 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

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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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Into the Wild

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

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I've been on a bit of a mountaineering disaster-reading romp of late, and Krakauer's book shines out in a crowded field, mainly because his career as an author/journalist means he can actually string a decent bloody sentence together. Whatever your o ...more
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I know you shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but this is not a good book. Hargreaves gives a bland, soulless account of soloing six classic European north face routes, interspersed with short, grumpy and arrogant asides about not being happy with the ...more
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A different POV on the K2 disaster covered by Jim Curran in K2: Triumph & Tragedy, this is Kurt Diemberger's rather verbose account of why he decided to climb his "mountain of mountains" despite conditions being...let's just say less than ideal. Diem ...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,”
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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.”
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