Hold Your Breath

A Novella

By: Wendy Walker

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

From the best-selling author of All Is Not Forgotten and Don’t Look for Me comes a sharp, compulsive thriller about a young woman who narrowly escapes a violent crime and the psychiatrist helping to recover her memory of the suspect.

Gabby Ashford has just survived an attempt on her life. Detectives have connected her story to two other cases in the area: Professional women drugged at a bar, brought to their homes, and drowned in their bathtubs. Gabby, who miraculously woke up in her own bathtub unharmed, could be the key to finding a serial killer on the loose - but she has no memory of the attack.

Gabby admits herself to a high-end rehabilitation center to recover and to seek the help of a psychiatrist renowned for his work with memory recovery. As Dr. Forrester works with Gabby - interviewing not only her but her overbearing fiancée, her emotionally fragile brother, and the local detective working the case - questions about Gabby’s story, her past, and the ethics of memory recovery emerge.

Dr. Forrester, the central voice of Walker’s breakout debut All Is Not Forgotten, is a fascinating and deeply complicated character, barreling toward the truth of the case at hand while wrestling with the demons of his own past. Shocking and succinct, Hold Your Breath will have you on the edge of your seat from the first minute to the last.

©2020 Wendy Walker (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.

Quick listen

This was a decent short book. sometimes I listen to these shorter books as a pallet cleanser before my next longer listen. this was a good gap book. though it all seemed a little predictable, it wasn't bad.

Another thriller narrated by Dylan Baker

An excellent suspenseful novella by Wendy Walker and read by a favorite narrator of mine, actor Dylan Baker. Having listened to “The Face” by Dean Koontz and narrated by Baker, I found this one in the Audible Plus Catalogue. A traumatic and complex whodunit, I recommend this strange and unusual mystery. A surprise ending I never saw coming.

Way unexpected twist!

This story should be made into a short movie and Morgan Freeman should be the main star.

Not quite.

This was a DNF for me at about 35%, I really tried but I couldn't keep rewinding to catch what I Spaced off. Sometimes it's just hit and miss, and this was a miss for me.

Unexpected Twist

This book was just right. The right length of time, development of characters, the right beginning and end. Very interesting story and nice twist at the end.