Murder in the Family

In December 2003, Luke Ryder was found dead in the garden of a wealthy family's London home, leaving behind an older widow and three stepchildren. The murder was never solved. Twenty years later, his stepson Guy Howard gives the hit true-crime series Infamous permission to reopen the cold case, assembling a panel of six experts — lawyers, investigators, forensic specialists — to re-examine the evidence on camera.

Cara Hunter tells the whole story through documents: episode transcripts, newspaper clippings, emails, text messages, voicemails, coroner's reports, maps and photographs. The reader sits alongside the panel, weighing conflicting testimony and watching each confident conclusion undermined by the next piece of paper. As the experts close in on the truth, the show's own participants become part of the story.

A wholly immersive, cleverly constructed thriller, Murder in the Family turns the reader into a juror, piecing together a decades-old killing from fragments while the format itself keeps twisting what seems certain.