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    Don't Even Breathe
    Don't Even Breathe
    Don't Even Breathe
    Audiobook8 hours

    Don't Even Breathe

    Written by Keith Houghton

    Narrated by Karen Peakes

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From the bestselling author of Crash comes a riveting thriller rife with murder, misdirection, and ghosts from the past.

    Florida homicide detective Maggie Novak has seen hundreds of brutal murder cases, but when she is called out to investigate the charred remains of a young woman, in what appears to be a Halloween prank gone wrong, she is confronted with a twenty-year-old secret. The body is formally identified as that of school counselor Dana Cullen, but a distinguishing mark makes Maggie look again. She believes it is the body of her school friend Rita, who perished in a fire twenty years ago.

    Maggie’s hunt for the truth behind the murder takes her back to a cruel high school trick she’s desperate to forget. And when another body turns up, Maggie realizes she too may be the target of a sinister plot creeping toward its final act.

    Maggie needs emotional distance to do her job, but she’s so close to this case that she can’t even breathe. Will Maggie be able to uncover the truth of who wanted Rita dead? Or will her past mistakes catch up with her first?



    Also available in the Maggie Novak Thriller series:-

    A PLACE CALLED FEAR

    THE OTHER CHILD

    HER ONLY REGRET

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 4, 2019
    ISBN9781721371488
    Don't Even Breathe
    Author

    Keith Houghton

    Ask Keith Houghton what he writes about and he won’t say crime or murder, even though these are major themes in his work. Instead, he’ll say contrasts and extremes. When it comes to storytelling, what interests him are life’s polar opposites, both internally and externally—what pushes us to reach for the moral high ground or pulls us deep into our psyche. Moreover, his stories aren’t simply concerned with good versus evil, but also with the crossover between the two—the gray area where the line between right and wrong is often blurred. It’s not surprising, therefore, to see his good guys turn out to be half bad and his bad guys half good, all the while being drawn in opposite directions along plot lines split equally between denying truths and embracing lies. In the world of Keith Houghton’s imagination, not everything is black and white—sometimes it’s blood-red. Keith Houghton is the author of the stand-alone psychological thrillers No Coming Back and Before You Leap, as well as the three Gabe Quinn thrillers: Killing Hope, Crossing Lines, and Taking Liberty. To read more about Keith and his writing, please visit www.keithhoughton.com.

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    • 3/5
      Average police procedural. It was kind of messy in parts. It definitely had me guessing but more because I'm not entirely sure it made any sense. There were plots on top of plots. I liked Maggie for the most part. I have the next one and will likely pick it up. 2.5 stars, rounded up to 3.
    • 4/5
      This is a well written mystery.... its has the right pace and it's straight forward in it's plot... the flow of the story is well balanced and the plot twist at the end had my eyes pop and me thinking "why the hell did i not think of that possibility"
      over all the book is good for that lovely cosy mystery night.