Olivia Kiernan

Olivia Kiernan’s tautly written debut novel, Too Close to Breathe, immerses readers in a chilling murder case—and the tantalizing, enigmatic victim at the center of it all. Olivia Kiernan’s debut novel seamlessly juggles three concentric groups of characters. First, the victim: microbiologist and lecturer Eleanor Costello, who “is found hanging from a rope” inside her painfully tidy…