One Last Breath

By: P S Cunliffe

Narrated by: Alix Dunmore, Ethan Kelly

The water's rising, the temperature's dropping. Time is running out...

I wake up to darkness, my head pounding. As I reach out, my hands meet cold hard stone, and I realise in one single terrifying moment that I'm back where it all started - trapped at the bottom of the well where my best friend Amy's body was found fifteen years ago.

My husband Martin warned me not to come back here. Westhaven turned its back on me a long time ago, after my hit true crime documentary freed Amy's murderer and made our small town infamous. But when another teenager turned up dead, I knew I couldn't stay away...

Did I get too close to the truth? Is that why my captor put me down here? But the way they're taunting me from the top of the well feels too personal. They say if I want to live, I have to tell the truth.

If I want to hold my little girl again, I have to figure out who put me down here and what secret they claim I'm keeping. But how long until I have only one last breath?©2024 P S Cunliffe (P)2024 Bonnier Books UK

Well done, again!!

Wonderful story, great twists! Can’t wait for next book! Only two books to her credit? Bummer! Write faster😉

An Odd Book

I had a very difficult time getting into this one.
It’s graphic in a way that makes one’s skin crawl (the depictions of being trapped in the well just get darker and darker and I didn’t have the stomach for it)
But the story was constructed in a way that is unique at least.
I won’t be listening to this book again and found it to be tough going for the first several chapters.
If you’re into dark things and enjoy viscerally disturbing descriptions of suffering then this is your book.
I would like more time spent on atmosphere, character development, and setting the scene so that I could feel the story in a more tangible, realistic way.
Anyone can write something that will disturb another person. The real talent lies with those writers who know how to make the reader uncomfortable/tense/freaked out without using overtly disturbing depictions of each scene.
Worth a listen but not a second.
Great narration and an interesting premise though.