To The Last Page

It sounds like a fairly generic title for a thriller, but Olivia Tiernan’s Too Close to Breathe perhaps tells us a little more about the nature of the book that you might think, and perhaps even more than the author realises. Set in Dublin, this pacy serial killer thriller introduces a new police detective, DCS Frankie Sheenan, a Garda police detective investigating serious crime in Dublin, where the cases she is involved with do seem to be rather close to home. In this first DCS Sheenan novel, Frankie has only just returned to duty after suffering a knife wound to the head while investigating another case involving a dangerous killer. That case is about to come to trial and Frankie will soon be called as a witness. Still suffering to some extent from pain and trauma from the injury, she is nonetheless deemed fit to return to work by her boss, who asks her to look into a new investigation. Eleanor Costello, a microbiologist and university lecturer has been found dead in her home, an a...