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Hold Still

By: Tim Adler
Narrated by: Katie Moore
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I photographed the moment of my husband's death....' So begins Hold Still, a nerve-twisting thriller from best-selling author Tim Adler.

How much do we really know about those we love?

Kate is visiting Albania with her husband, Paul, a much needed break from Paul's stressful website business. 'Hold still,' says Kate, taking a picture as Paul steps onto the hotel room balcony. 'We'll always be together,' Paul responds. Suddenly there is screaming below and a blaring car horn. Kate stares down from the balcony at the broken body of her husband lying lifeless in the street.

Overcome with grief, Kate can't accept the truth of Paul's tragic death and replays the incident over and over again, searching her pictures for a vital clue to what really happened. When she meets the enigmatic Priest at a grief support group, they journey together into a dangerous world of violence and secrets as Kate realises what Paul really meant when he said he would never leave her....

Tim Adler is an author and commissioning editor on The Daily Telegraph who has also written for the Financial Times and The Times. His debut self-published thriller, Slow Bleed, went to number one in the Amazon medical thriller chart while influential review site Crime Book Club made it a Book of the Month.

Its follow-up, Surrogate, has stayed in the top 40 psychological thrillers for over a year and was a Book of the Month on E-thriller.com. The Sunday Times called Adler's most recent nonfiction book, The House of Redgrave, compulsively listenable while The Mail on Sunday called it dazzling.

Adler's previous novel, Hollywood and the Mob, an exposé of how the Mafia has corrupted the movie industry, was Book of the Week in The Mail on Sunday and Critic's Choice in the Daily Mail. Tim is former London editor of Deadline Hollywood, a US entertainment news website.

©2016 Tim Adler (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
Psychological Suspense Fiction Marriage Thriller Mafia

Critic Reviews

"Hold Still hooked me from the very beginning and Adler's engaging style and sharp pace kept me glued." (Peter James)
"Compulsively readable." (Sunday Times Culture)
"Adler writes with brio." (The Week)

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Don’t bother with this book

Could’ve been about 5 chapters shorter. I don’t know how anyone would go through that punishment and still have the strength to keep going for what seemed like days. Totally unbelievable.

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Midsummer Murders meets Die Hard... hmmmm

A naive wife, unknowingly married to a former people smuggler loses her husband to an apparent suicide while they are in Albania at a funeral. Then she learns from his Albanian mother, he was unhappy in their marriage. She also learns he was in massive debt. Coincidently she has some photographs from the scene of the suicide. Turns out the old man who lives downstairs from their London flat was also in Albania that night and she captured him in a photograph too. Then she goes to a Grief Support Group and coincidently takes up with an undercover Europol officer masquerading as a used car salesman - whom she also photographed that night IN ALBANIA - before they are both kidnapped from a Vietnamese drug lab by an evil genius "Teardrop" who wants to get his hands on her dead husband's data company files. I haven't even begun to unravel all the foreshadowing plot hints...

"Teardrop" named for his tattoo below his eye uses her to access the husband's office "datafarm" but while he needs her to open the door, he knows the alarm code.... WTF!? I'm struggling to believe I'm still listening never mind believe any of this amateurish detective work done by a curious mix of Miss Marple, Jessica Fletcher and James Bond... and all while her supposedly dead husband is barely cold, (Except that we are repeatedly told in a clear foreshadowing manoeuvre - one of the many foreshadows - that she had his body conveniently cremated.)

The story takes place days from her husband's (supposed) death and given how much she loved him, really hard to believe she is ready to go on a spy mission prepared to 'honey-trap' the initially suspected car salesman/Europol officer who actually goes onto to help her pursue an international drug and people smuggler gang with a terrified and clearly trafficked Vietnamese girl.

***Facepalm*** no, this review is not really a recommendation.

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don't do it

most unbelievable story I think I have ever listened to. that was so not enjoyable

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