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  • Don't Even Breathe

  • Maggie Novak Thriller, Book 1
  • By: Keith Houghton
  • Narrated by: Karen Peakes
  • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (37 ratings)

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Don't Even Breathe

By: Keith Houghton
Narrated by: Karen Peakes
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Summary

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.
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Ok, but why does the author repeat everything so much.

Leaving aside the reader’s atrocious Scottish accent, this is a pleasant listen with a decent plot. It’s ruined by acres of repetition. All the characters ‘think’ the same things again and again, repeat their suspicions, feel the same feelings. Worst of all, throughout all the DS Hart books so far, everything the police officers do is not only described in detail, but then reported to a more senior officer directly afterwards, in great detail. Sometimes, that officer then reports it to the Team. We KNOW!! We just read or heard it. We don’t need to be told it all again. I spent more time yelling “I know!” at the story than appreciating it. It’s as if the author is writing the next chapter a few months later and thinks we need reminding what just happened. We don’t.

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