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Don't Even Breathe

Maggie Novak Thriller, Book 1

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Don't Even Breathe

By: Keith Houghton
Narrated by: Karen Peakes
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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?

©2019 by Keith William Houghton. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Murder Exciting
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The pace of this story is quite fast, there's plenty of action... that's a positive. But I didn't like the repetition used to flush out the main character's personality, which became annoying. Some pieces of the mystery just got dropped so the story could rush off in a new direction, with a couple of wild leaps and a conclusion that seemed rushed.

Some nice twists but characters lack real depth

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