#BlogTour: Too Close To Breathe by Olivia Kiernan @LivKiernan @annecater @riverrunbooks #TooCloseToBreathe #RandomThingsTours #FiveStars

Book Description:

FIND THE KILLER WHO LIKES TO PLAY DEAD
A bold, brilliant new crime thriller – perfect for fans of Tana French, Jane Casey and Gillian Flynn

TOO SOON TO SEE

Polished. Professional. Perfect. Dead. Respected scientist Dr Eleanor Costello is found hanged in her immaculate home: the scene the very picture of a suicide.

TOO LATE TO HIDE

DCS Frankie Sheehan is handed the case, and almost immediately spots foul play. Sheehan, a trained profiler, is seeking a murderer with a talent for death.

TOO CLOSE TO BREATHE

As Frankie strives to paint a picture of the killer, and their victim, she starts to sense they are part of a larger, darker canvas, on which the lines between the two blur.

Too Close To Breathe was published on the 5th April 2018 by River Run Books.  You can buy a copy here.

My Review:

I really enjoyed this fascinating, thrilling and unusual thriller.  I was drawn straight into the story from the intriguing prologue and continued to be gripped throughout.  The plot is finely paced with clues and revelations revealed at a perfect pace to keep a reader interested but not too fast that you feel you are in danger of missing anything.  The murders are unusual ones which I won’t say more about for fear of ruining the story, but I was surprised and I haven’t read a book where people had been murdered the same way before.

I had a bit of a love/ hate relationship with the main character, Frankie.  On one hand I felt a bit sorry for her and what she had gone through.  She was quite a strong women and obviously highly respected by her colleagues.  On the other she seemed unduly mean to her colleagues and seemed to let her prejudices cloud her judgement.  I felt quite frustrated with her at times and how she conducted the investigation.  Baz and Clancy were my favourite characters as they seemed very kind towards Frankie, even when I felt she didn’t deserve it, which was very touching.  The banter between Frankie and them was very amusing and led to some light relief from the murder case. I liked that all the police officers,  weren’t the stereotypical grizzly or seasoned police officers but instead seemed to care for each other and worked well as a team.

I always enjoy learning new things from books and I’d never heard of The Dark Web and the type of sites that are featured on it.  I was fascinated to learn more about this and lost quite a few hours researching it on line.  The author has definitely done her research as everything mentioned in the book seems to be true.

I must confess I was a little confused at the beginning as there is a few references to a case Frankie had worked on previously and I thought I might have missed a book in the series when I thought Too Close To Breathe was a debut.  I soon worked out that this wasn’t the case and that the previous case is mentioned as it is relevant to the story.  I only mention it here in case others are similarly confused, it is meant to be this way!

As mentioned above this is Olivia Kiernan’s debut novel and I am so excited to read more by her.  If you like thrilling and unusual crime thrillers that you can’t out down you’ll love this book.

Huge thanks to Anne Cater and River Run Books for my copy of this book and for inviting me onto the blog tour.

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