The Hunt and The Kill by Holly Watt is another in the Casey Benedict series and this is a totally engrossing and intriguing storyline. She is looking into antibiotics and whether there is another Greg that is resistant to and able to fight infections and disease. Once again she ends up appearing in different countries trying to work out what is happening and who is responsible for the murders and deaths that could have been saved.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
Highly recommended

Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. This is part of a series and I think reading the first two would give better context, though it is easy to follow the storyline here without reading the others. It’s fast paced and the premise around over use of antibiotics is interesting. Good writing style and characters held my attention to the end. I enjoyed this and would recommend it.

I really enjoyed this novel, which even though I did not know was part of a series I understood completely.

London based investigative reporter Casey has been seconded to health issues due to a colleagues maternity leave. What seems to be a dull story becomes and incredible investigation in to cover ups and “Big Pharma”.

Absolutely brilliant novel and I will be reading more!

Investigative journalist Casey Benedict is - in the latest in this gripping series - on the hunt for the truth about a cover-up that poses a threat to our future health, and brings trouble very close to home.
As always, Casey is ready to do anything if takes to find out the truth, including putting her own life and those of others in danger.
Fortunately as a journalist at the Post, there seems to be the budget to take her to countries including Zimbabwe and South Africa!
If you haven’t read the other novels in this series, it really doesn’t matter as this stands alone.
Watt’s novels are intelligent and fast-paced: this one really gathered momentum in the last half and had me reading at a furious speed to find out what was going to happen.
They’re also utterly believable. The future of antibiotics is something we’re all aware is a big problem and I found this window into that world fascinating.
Recommended if you like an intelligent and gritty thriller.

This is the latest in the award winning Holly Watt's hard hitting superior series featuring the London based investigative journalist, Casey Benedict, working at the Post. An unhappy Casey is miserable at having been taken of the investigative team to provide maternity cover for Heather Webber on health issues. She watches enviously as Hessa and Tillie work under Miranda, gaining confidence in their roles, and all attempts to persuade Ross , the editor, to let her return come to nought as its thought that she needs time to recover from the trauma of previous events. She finds herself sent to interview 20 year old Flora Ashcroft, a cystic fibrosis patient at the Royal Brompton Hospital in South Kensington.

Talking to the exhausted Dr Noah Hart, she learns of the lethal implications of superbugs, the scientific research challenges and failures in trying to keep ahead of anti-bacterial resistance, and which threaten Flora's life now and the future of all humanity in the not too distant future. An antibiotic, saepio, being developed by pharmaceutical giant, Adsera, run by the famously reclusive Elias Bailey, may potentially offer some hope in the short term, as did Corax, a drug that a San Francisco firm, Pergamex, had been working on, until for some inexplicable reasons it folded. Casey has no idea, as she begins to investigate, of just how high the stakes are, as people keep on dying around her, of ostensibly natural causes like heart attacks and all too convenient and suspicious 'accidents'. The dangers come far too close to home, leaving a reeling and grieving Casey following a story that threatens her and all those close to her.

The investigation takes Casey to Mauritius, Miami, the poverty and hardship of Harare, Zimbabwe, and Cape Town, South Africa, but she is up against an unscrupulous pharmaceutical industry and its CEOs, whose interests more often lie in profiteering rather than saving lives, dumping often useless, hazardous and deadly drugs under the guise of 'helping' in global crises and catastrophes, whilst benefiting from tax breaks. This is a superb read, complex, packed with oodles of suspense and tension, smart, engaging, whilst tackling real world issues that are likely to have dire effects on all us in the future. Highly recommended and I cannot wait for the next one in the series. Many thanks to the publisher for an ARC.

I hadn't read anything by Holly Watt before, but am going to start from the beginning now. This book took me to places I have sadly never been to - Harare and Mauritius for starters - and found the detail about the pharmaceutical industry very interesting.

I loved the first two books by Holly Watt, but this one is is absolutely her best yet. Clever and paced and impossible tout down. The action moves all over the world - Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Miami, South Africa - very welcome in a pandemic when I haven't moved from a sofa!. Casey Benedict is an extraordinary character. You so rarely come across a strong successful female character, and this book embraces that. Holly Watt takes complex subjects and creates remarkable fast paced thrillers - can't wait for the TV series. Next one soon please!

Casey Benedict, courageous reporter, is back again and no less determined to uncover corruption even though she is weighed down with sorrow throughout this novel. ‘The Hunt and the Kill’ focuses on the development and misuse of antibiotics, clearly a timely reminder that with the emergence of new wonder drugs, comes fortunes to be made and unscrupulous politicians and drugs companies looking to benefit from others’ plight.
I enjoyed Holly Watts’ first two novels in this series, even though some of her chase scenes are a little too much of a tribute to James Bond for my liking. However, whilst the action of this novel lives up to its title, both the plot and the depiction of those supporting Casey in her quest to discover more about the mysterious Corax wonder drug are less compellingly drawn than in Watts’ previous narratives. Because of this, I was unable to suspend disbelief when Casey announced her mission and motivation. Early in the novel, Watt depicts Casey as, understandably, in no fit state to return to the office, let alone complete dangerous undercover work in several different countries. And yet, she rallies!
Others may enjoy this addition to the Casey Benedict series as much, or even more, than the first two tales of derring-do. Me, not so much.
My thanks to NetGalley and Raven Books for a copy of this novel in exchange for a fair review.

This novel was fan-flipping-tastic. It's my first time reading a novel by Holly Watts and I mistakenly assumed this was her debut novel, but no! She has two prior novels featuring the amazing Casey Benedict that I now have the utter pleasure of going back and getting the chance to read. I'm incredibly excited, actually, as being able to see what makes Casey the way she is in The Hunt and the Kill is going to be a magnificent journey, I feel. Her tenacious attitude towards investigative journalism is second-to-none and I genuinely admired how once she set her mind to something, she got it done. Yes, she had her moments of doubts, wrote no doubt by whatever has happened in prior novels, but she was a fantastic character.

The Hunt and the Kill is the kind of novel that throws you into the action immediately, it did take me a moment or so to get my bearings as it was all action, right from the off, and the formatting on my Kindle wasn't the best for some reason. However as soon as I started reading, I literally couldn't stop, I was glued to this book from beginning to end and it reminded me of why I love reading so, so much.

The pharmaceutical industry is one I have absolutely no knowledge of in the slightest, however that's what this novel centres on, as Casey investigates an apparently miracle antibiotic that barely anyone has any knowledge of, but that a doctor mentions to Casey, to help a sick patient named Flora. As Casey digs deeper, the mystery of this new antibiotic heats up as Casey can't find hide nor hair of it anywhere and anyone she CAN find to speak to ends up gravely injured.

I absolutely loved how this novel took us on a journey around the world - the UK, Miami, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, no place was too far for Casey to go to uncover the truth and I feel like the first two novels in this series are exactly the same; Casey is so relentless that the narrative moves at such an incredibly fast pace without ever feeling like it's too much. I genuinely loved the book from start to finish and I'm so excited I have two more Casey books to dive into ASAP!