The release date for the English version of 'Breathless' by
Amy McCulloch is May 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A breath-taking thriller set at high altitudes—Miles above sea level, Cecily Wong is embarking on her most perilous trek to yet. However, the most terrifying fact of all is that there is a murderer on the mountain.
Cecily Wong is a journalist who is overachieving. She is at Manaslu, the eighth highest peak in the world, to conduct an interview with world-renowned climber Charles McVeigh, who is now completing the last ascent in a record-breaking sequence of peaks. She's sacrificed everything for this narrative, including her life savings, her relationship with her partner, and her ability to move on from her previous climbing setbacks, but it's also a chance to launch her career. Her life could at last get back on track with it.
However, she worries that their trip is in jeopardy when one climber perishes in what everyone else believes to be a strange accident. And it's too late to turn back by the time another climber loses their life. She will have to combat not only the weather but also a murderer who is killing them one by one as she is stranded on a mountain in one of the most isolated places on earth.