Five Silver Spoons: The edge-of-your-seat crime thriller

Hardback Published on: 23/04/2026; Language: English, English (Original language of a translated text)
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Five Silver Spoons
One of the best crime books I’ve read !
Wow, this book was incredible ! This is the perfect crime book, it is brilliantly paced, keeps you at the edge of your seat, and the forensic and police el... READ MORE
Maddie - Waterstones Hull

Synopsis

'The tension never slackens . a very promising criminal debut' The Times

ONE DOWN.

When a suspected overdose victim is found to have received a postcard marked You're first, DI Hope Fenton uncovers links to a circle of privileged Cambridge alumni: an eco-entrepreneur, a surgeon, a lecturer, and a government minister. They have been bound together since a fateful night twenty years ago, but are they potential victims - or suspects?

FOUR TO GO.

As the body count rises - seemingly the clique is being picked off one by one - Hope fails to cope with the terrible shadow cast by the disappearance of her son Noah eight years ago. The unanswered questions of what happened to him also haunt her ex-husband, colleague, and forensic scientist Dr Adam Fenton. But could it be that this case holds the key to Noah's disappearance?

Five Silver Spoons is a gripping tale of shameless entitlement and merciless revenge.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Allison & Busby
  • ISBN: 9780749033620
  • Number of pages: 416
  • Dimensions: 216 x 134 mm
  • Languages: English, English (Original language of a translated text)

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Five Silver Spoons
Brilliant
This is the first book I’ve read by this author and I really enjoyed it. Whilst at Cambridge University twenty years ago, a friendship group is involved... READ MORE
MandyDB
This reviewer received a free of charge product for review.
Five Silver Spoons
A tense suspenseful read
June 2021 - a vow is made all those years ago to seek revenge for what has been done to him.In September 2025 a series of postcards are sent, one enigmatic... READ MORE
Celia Short
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Five Silver Spoons
A gripping read!
A gripping police procedural read! DI Hope Fenton is a complex character who has her own demons . Her son has been missing for eight years . The pressu... READ MORE
Zoe Hitchen
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Five Silver Spoons
An Intriguing Read.
Hope Fenton #1 They should have made sure he was dead. DI Hope Fenton is haunted by the abduction of her son Noah eight years ago. It shadows every i... READ MORE
Louise Wilson
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Five Silver Spoons
Good Premise
Enjoyable first foray for D I Fenton. Good premise. Plenty of backstory . Plot twists aplenty. Left on a cliffhanger so looking forward to next offering..
Jean Easdon
Five Silver Spoons
A tense crime thriller
A tense crime thriller. Someone is out for revenge, but who? An incident at Cambridge University over 20 years ago looks to be the motive for revenge. DI ... READ MORE
Susan Hunter
Five Silver Spoons
Great debut
I really enjoyed this. It’s a solid police procedural, although you pretty much know the motive of the killer (though not who they are) from the start, as ... READ MORE
Kay RhysEvans
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Five Silver Spoons
A real edge of your seat compelling murder/mystery
As this book is listed as Hope Fenton book 1 of 1, I suspect there may be more? If so, then this is a brilliant introduction to DI Hope Fenton, her team an... READ MORE
Bookandbrew
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Five Silver Spoons
gripping
Five Silver Spoons is a sharp, atmospheric thriller that threads together privilege, guilt, and long‑buried secrets with a pace that tightens chapter by ch... READ MORE
Leanne H
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Five Silver Spoons
The victim of a heinous crime seeks the perpetrators with deadly intent
Revenge served cold certainly describes the two decades spent by our unknown victim, now perpetrator tracking down the group of students responsible for a... READ MORE
George  Young
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Five Silver Spoons
Complex murder mystery (and other crimes)
In 2001, five Cambridge students, drunk after their final May Ball, buried a youth they had just mown down on a quiet country road. All five were high fly... READ MORE
Denis
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Five Silver Spoons
A tense crime thriller
A tense crime thriller. Someone is out for revenge, but who? An incident at Cambridge University over 20 years ago looks to be the motive for revenge. DI ... READ MORE
Susan Hunter
Five Silver Spoons
Well plotted but predictable
This story combines a police procedural with dark academia when a group of former Cambridge university friends are found murdered. With flashbacks to a ter... READ MORE
Ann Alderton
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Five Silver Spoons
Nicely plotted
Twenty years ago five Cambridge students made a huge mistake, now it has come back to haunt them. When a drug addict dies, no-one thinks it is any more th... READ MORE
Jo-anne Atkinson