Book info

• Title One Last Breath
• Author P S Cunliffe
• Year 2024
• Genre Thriller

The water's rising, the temperature's dropping. Time is running out... Jessie wakes in total darkness, shivering with cold, the rain beating down on her. She reaches out, and her hand meets hard stone. In a heartbeat, she knows where she is: deep in the woods, at the bottom of the well where her best friend Amy's body was found fifteen years ago. If only she hadn't ignored her husband's warnings about returning to Westhaven, a town still haunted by the revelations contained in Jessie's true crime documentary. Thanks to her, the innocent man convicted of her friend's murder is now free to walk the streets. But now another teenager has turned up dead, and someone is determined to stop Jessie from getting to the truth. Can Jessie escape the well before she's forced to take one last breath? And what will be waiting for her on the surface if she does?

Thoughts

This was a recommended audiobook on Apple Books which I picked up without knowing anything about it other than the small preview clip had me hooked. And it was that way the whole way through. The book is split into very manageable chapters, flipping back and forward in time and from a couple of different points of view. There was a moment in the middle where it felt a little bit drawn out but for the most part I was really keen to find out what happened next. I guessed that the person on the other end of the phone wasn’t who they said they were, but did not guess who or why! And that final twist was like a punch to the stomach!

Rating: 4 / 5