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A Breath After Drowning

Alice Blanchard

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Publisher
Titan Books (UK)
Date
April 10, 2018
Fiction
Mystery, Crime, & Thriller
Kate Wolfe has been living with more than a decade of guilt after her sister's murder when she learns from a retired detective that her sister may have been one of many victims of a serial killer.
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Rave The Crime Review
Subtly paced and completely engrossing, this is a read that will keep you hooked to the end ... Blanchard does a fantastic job of creating enough twists, turns, red herrings and ambiguous clues that this novel will keep you guessing right until the killer is revealed. Like other great novels, however, you believe the entire time that you know who it is (but you keep being proven wrong) ... She has also written an incredibly strong and nuanced protagonist in Dr. Kate Wolfe ... well worth a read if you are a fan of well-constructed, beautifully paced psychological thrillers!
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Positive Tom Nolan,
The Wall Street Journal
Bizarre coincidences and shocking revelations concerning former neighbors and Kate’s own family members, as well as the murder of the mother of another one of her patients, cause Kate to question her own hard-earned sanity. But she’ll need all her wits about her, and then some, to eventually do battle with one of the most memorable genre villains since Hannibal Lecter.
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Mixed Christina Boswell,
The San Francisco Book Review
I don’t have a lot of feelings either way about this book. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with the plot or characters, but there’s nothing really outstanding either. It was fairly predictable, both in who the killer really was and how it all played out. I didn’t find Kate to be a very relatable character, but I also didn’t dislike her ... I do think readers who enjoy Ruth Ware and Megan Miranda will enjoy this book. It has a similar feel to their styles of writing as well as similar kinds of storylines
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