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.

well done!

A great little story. well written, flowed nicely with an interesting ending. Dylan Baker is a great narrator. I'm pretty fussy about the readers of any audible book. I like that he read it like a story with very minimal "acting out" of any of the characters. (I hate that!) would like to hear more from them both again.

Sooooo good!

Initially I was annoyed at the narrators voice but it is an excellent fit once you learn the characters.
Such an interesting story!
I thought I had it figured out multiple times & was always wrong.
Definitely worth listening to!!

Excellent

Excellent story and well performed. A must listen for students of psychology. You'll recognize the medical doctor and understand his disdain for pop psychology methods.

great storyline

it was a quick story but the author developed them well. very interesting and well written.

Could have been better.

The book was a great book I feel that other people may like this book. But I like my books a little bit longer. Besides that it was a great book and I would recommend this book to anyone who like to read murder mysteries.

Narrative was fine. Story was ok

Didn’t grab me but I listened to it. Confusing end left me wondering who did it ?

Nice Twist

Short listen, the story pulls you in and flows nicely. Not predictable which is a nice change of pace. Really enjoyed the ride.

Excellent great listen...very real

Loved it... the perspective she writes from makes the story so real. different from American girl which I loved.

Great! Suspenseful!

I loved this book although it is very short. I wish there was more because it’s that good. Took me a few chapters to get warmed up to the narrator, nothing bad I’m just more used to female narrators I guess.

Needs a different narrator.

The story all in all was very good and interesting.
But the narrator was too punctuative with his words and when he tried to do a female’s voice, it was so cringey!
His voice, in my opinion, was too monotone for this story. He seems like he’s narrating a science book for middle schoolers.
If a different narrator was used, this audio book would’ve been perfect!