Breathless - This year s most gripping thriller Sunday Times Crime Book of Month

IT'S ICE COLD. YOU'RE MILES FROM HELP. AND ONE OF YOU WILL BE NEXT...

When struggling journalist Cecily Wong is invited to join an expedition to climb one of the world's tallest mountains, it seems like the chance of a lifetime.

She doesn't realise how deadly the climb will be .

As their small team starts to climb, things start to go wrong. There's a theft. Then an accident. Then a mysterious note, pinned to her tent: there's a murderer on the mountain.

The higher they get, the more dangerous the climb becomes, and the more they need to trust one another.

And that's when Cecily finds the first body...

About the author

Amy McCulloch is the Chinese-White author of eight novels for children and young adults, including the #1 bestselling YA novel The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow. In September 2019, she became the youngest Canadian woman to climb Mt Manaslu in Nepal -- the world's eighth highest mountain. She also summited the highest mountain in the Americas, Aconcagua, in -45C and 90kmph winds, and has visited all seven continents. Breathless is her adult fiction debut.

Report

Breathless is a high-altitude, high-stakes thriller that combines fascinating, authentic mountaineering experience with pure thriller entertainment. The suspense rises like the Nepalese mountain it is set on. Reminded me of the best of Michael Crichton, where in-depth knowledge and a masterful plot work together to create a tense adrenaline-fuelled ride. I loved it Matt Haig Sunday Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library

Product details

• Authors: Amy McCulloch
• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2022
• EAN: 9780241534830
• ISBN: 978-0-241-53483-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Mountains, FICTION / Gothic, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Seasonal interest: Winter, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery: women sleuths