If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise…

Kitty Marchland has always known that her family aren’t like others. So when her father uproots them to a remote cottage in the far north of the country, she doesn’t question it. But when they arrive, things start to unravel, with her mother beside herself as events unfold…

Kitty takes sanctuary in the dark woods that surround the cottage – a refuge from the madness that lies within the house. Here she finds companionship with Adah and Levi, giving Kitty the chance of the childhood she always wanted to have.

But years later, Kitty starts to question what really happened when they went away to the cottage in the woods. And when the police revisit a suspicious death, she must examine her most painful memories and the dark secrets that they hide…

Hold Your Breath is a gripping and suspenseful thriller that will captivate you from first to last page.

Praise

‘To open BP Walter’s exceptional new thriller is to step through a cellar door: the air cools, your vision dims… and just a few steps later, you’re tiptoeing across the floor, desperate to switch on a torch — yet frightened of what the light might reveal. Attention, readers of Lucy Foley and Lisa Gardner: Hold Your Breath is your next favourite read.’
A J Finn, author of The Woman in the Window

‘In Hold Your Breath, BP Walter has created a suspenseful and wonderfully creepy and claustrophobic novel. He possesses that unique talent: an ability to create flawed characters the reader can root for, weaving a heartbreakingly dark story that is so compelling we can do nothing else but read on.’
Fiona Cummins, author of The Neighbour