The Silence Between Breaths - Hardcover

Cath Staincliffe is an award winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV's hit seriesBlue Murder. Cath's books have been shortlisted for the CWA Best First Novel award. She was joint winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2012.Letters To My Daughter's Killerwas selected for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club on ITV3 in 2014. Cath also writes theScott & Baileybooks based on the popular ITV series.She lives with her family in Manchester.

An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout * Daily Telegraph * For her insistence on looking real life squarely in the face, I would call Staincliffe the most grown-up writer in British crime fiction . . . her novel is mercilessly exciting * Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph * An emotionally engaging thriller * Metro * Paradoxically, it's their very ordinariness that gets you involved in the lives and concerns of a random group of train travellers, before the tension ramps up and a routine journey takes a shocking twist. You'll want to read it in one sitting * Sunday Times Crime Club * Cath Staincliffe gets into the heads of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary. Her power is in the small detail that builds tension and forces us to care about the characters she's created. The Silence Between Breaths will haunt you. You will find yourself thinking: what would I have done in that situation? As harrowing as it is powerful * Sunday Mirror * Cath Staincliffe's writing is so utterly real - and virtually invisible - that the reader experiences the shocking as vividly as the ordinary. -- Sarah Proctor * Myweekly.co.uk * Complex and satisfying * Sunday Times * Cath Staincliffe gets into the heads of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary. Her power is in the small detail that builds tension and forces us to care about the characters she's created. The Silence Between Breaths will haunt you. You will find yourself thinking: what would I have done in that situation? -- Ann Cleeves [A] powerful, thoughtful ensemble novel about a terror attack and its legacy ... Harrowing and humane. A real knockout -- Ian Rankin