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Hold Still
- Narrated by: Katie Moore
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Summary
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.
Critic reviews
"Compulsively readable." (Sunday Times Culture)
"Adler writes with brio." (The Week)
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- Amanda
- 17-11-21
I'll pass on reading Tim Adler again
This book was not well written. I'm thankful I was listening to it, not reading it, and the narrator was engaging. Let's start with the bold assumptions that irked me. For example: "Asperger's Syndrome is a mild form of autism" and "Pregnant women don't commit suicide." Really? But the worst thing was the random and completely unnecessary crude snippets of sexual scenes that did not fit in with the feel of the story, and added nothing to it. Perhaps Tim got off on adding some random vulgar sentences? It's a shame, because the actual storyline was one of the better ones I've listened to recently.
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- S A TRODDEN
- 19-09-21
Far fetched
Unrealistic and long winded, some of the detail was unnecessary and overly graphic. Narration was very good.
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- Criss
- 08-10-20
A really decent story
I picked this up as a total random read. I thoroughly enjoyed this story.
Right from the very beginning you're pulled in to the story and immediately want to know what happened keeps you intrigued until the very end with a good build to the end.
I actually liked the narration which is always a bonus, apart from the switch between a Birmingham accent to a liverpudlian accent at times for one character but easy to get past.
I'm off to find more of this Author now -well worth a read!
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- joanna
- 05-12-21
Rubbish
I tried very hard but this book is a complete waste of space however the publishes could publish this sort of book is beyond me it’s utter rubbish unbelievable
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- honest
- 28-09-21
Hold Still
I enjoyed this story .Well researched lots of twists and turns and dealt with emotions and grief although only part of storyline.
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- mummy mush
- 07-03-23
Ish
A rather silly book the ending is so abrupt I think even the author got bored with it
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- KW
- 07-03-23
Hold Still
I found this one an interesting book. It progressed at a gentle pace most of the time, but had some unusual twists that made it a little different. The main character changed her allegiances rather too readily. The ending was so abrupt at one point that I thought I must have missed a paragraph until the final twists were revealed.
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- Jane
- 03-03-23
a bit too simplistic
I found the plot too implausible, the main character quite silly. then some totally irrelevant little sexual situations and that sealed it for me. I will not read anything by this author again
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- Kirsty
- 24-02-23
Not the best book or narrator
Parts of this were OK but the plot twists were a bit obvious and the main character was stupid and irritating (supposedly just naive 🙄). It might have been better if narrated by someone else and not Katie Moore, but I’m not sure of that. Random crude phrases were also thrown in for no apparent reason and didn’t fit with the rest of story at all. A lazy attempt to spice it up?
Katie Moore narrated with an overly girly, saccharine-sweet voice and pronounced loads of words weirdly, which I found distracting. I’ve no idea if the book was awful or just made worse by the narration. By the end of the book I wanted the lead character to die because she was so irritating!
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- H. HAMER
- 10-01-23
Unbelievable!
How I kept listening to this load of unbelievable tosh I don’t know, how the narrator kept going I don’t know. Thank goodness it was free with membership. How an interior designer becomes stronger and more devious than Europol agents is only one of the unbelievable strands of this ridiculous story.
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