This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

Omg talk about a roller coaster read wow this book kept me on the edge of my seat threw out I just couldn't put it down this writer keeps you hooked and once your hooked your not letting go I found this book thrilling the characters were fantastic and well thought out and the little clues all the way threw keep you guessing until the end this book stays with you long after you close the book this book is well worth the read I promise you wont be disappointed

Great story, thrilling plot that I could not put down. Well worth a read, and would recommend to others.

Really enjoyable read. Good characters and a Good story. Well worth a read. Think others will enjoy.

Really enjoyed the book, surprised by the ending, not who I was expecting at all, as I was thinking more dramatically, but certainly an unforeseen finale. well worth the read.

I haven't read much by Ms Buchanan before so I did not know what to expect. Wow was I pleasantly surprised!
The book grabs the reader from the beginning, starting with a young girl gone missing, and making me wonder throughout what the connection really is to Estelle.... The plot was wrapped up nicely and I just loved the way it was done! Recommended!!!

Really loved the premise of this story. Very readable storyline and excellent writing.
It follows the tale of Estelle who is a food blogger and auther who learns of the disappearance of a young girl named Poppy. Something about this girl makes Estelle take notice and over the next 350 pages we find out how they are linked and the sinister underlay of the story.
I think this makes a good Book Group read- although I was not too keen on the ending. Seemed a bit rushed and not refined enough.

Thank you to the publishers and Netgalley for my free copy.

What has Estelle Forster, up and coming blogger, got to do with recent missing person Poppy O’Farrell? She's received a photo of the missing 15 year old, and been threatened with exposure of her secrets, but how is she linked in any way? From this firs discovery, the reader is hooked and drawn into a psychological thriller that will keep you compelled to read to the finish.

With secrets and betrayals and twists and turns that makes the reader wonder who is telling the truth, it will keep you guessing all the way through. Make your way through various suspects, and you will find your way to the truth.

A good bookgroup read.

Estelle is a famous chef but her life is overshadowed by the fact she gave her daughter up for adoption. She then receives post and realises her adopted daughter Poppy has gone missing. This gives Estelle the Impetus to go back to the coastal town where Poppy was conceived, to Poppy's father who never knew she existed.
The town has its own secrets and no one seems to want Estelle around.
This was a good read and I liked the interplay of the characters.

Full review to follow on my blog this week but Her Last Breath is an intriguing read with lots of twist and sub plots which thoroughly held my interest and even though the ending left me feeling a little flat it kept me guessing throughout as to who sent what!

3.5 Stars

Well this was certainly a book that kept me guessing throughout. There are two perspectives in this book, Estelle a food blogger who is launching a book, and then another person who pops up now and then that is written very cleverly.

For it is this mystery person that is clearly behind all the weird things occurring in Estelle’s life but for most of the book I was left wondering who they are, and just what they are trying to achieve.
Oddly I enjoyed reading about Estelle’s childhood, its gritty and very real, from a 7 year old until placed into foster care and then the main story features around one of her foster families while she was 15.

For during that year there were two main events that left their mark on young Estelle and shaped her into the woman she is now. And it is these events that seem to have come to the surface and are the focus of the book.

I am sorry to say that I didn’t find this book anywhere near as gripping as I had hoped, although I did enjoy reading the story. The characters on the whole I just found incredibly hard to like and for me that makes it harder to read.

I was intrigued to find out what was happening, and there is a storyline that takes in landslides that definitely kept me reading. There is plenty of deception and mystery to this book to keep you guessing.

Thank you to Netgalley and Avon for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

I enjoyed the beginning but it lost me in the middle. Sadly just didn't hold my interest. I'm sure others will love it. There are some good characters and interesting twists. Would read others from this author.

I really enjoyed this story. A 15 year old girl has gone missing and food writer Estelle has been sent a photo of her. She can't understand why. When she discovers that the girl might be the baby she gave up for adoption, she decides to return to the seaside town where she was fostered at the time. This is a real page turner which will keep you guessing, and has a good twist at the end. Thanks to NetGalley for a preview copy.

This book was a struggle to read. I enjoyed parts of it, but it dragged a lot. I didn't really like the character at all. I get what the author was doing with her and how everything about her past added up to create who she is, but I just didn't like her at all.

The mystery didn't really grab me at all either. I don't really know why. I think because Estelle didn't really know Poppy there was none of the drama that books about missing children often have. I don't know. I just didn't get into it.

I hated the ending as well. It was screwed up and I felt like the stuff that was revealed about Estelle at the end just came out of the blue. I think maybe this type of reveal doesn't really work with a third person narrator or at least they should have had more hints and foreshadowing.

This was my first Tracy Buchanan novel, drawn in by the story of food writer, Estelle Forster, who returns to the picture postcard pretty coastal town of Lillysands, a place she used to think of as home. When a child goes missing and Estelle receives threatening notes linking her to the missing girl, life by the coast becomes anything but idyllic. Dark secrets lie behind the perfect seaside-town facade and soon Estelle is frightened for those she loves dearest - making the reader question everyone involved. Plenty of interesting twists make this a great beach page-turner, with a jaw-dropping final revelation. I devoured Her Last Breath in two days and now look forward to enjoying more of Buchanan's back catalogue.

3.5 stars

This is the story about Estelle a foster child turning her life in to a success. However, what is the cost of this?
A missing child, a past revisited and you find that Estelle has lots of skeletons in the closet, as do the people in her life.
This is a roller coaster book , a psychological thriller and a real who dunnit. Sadly I have read many similar books recently and this is not a strong, it seemed to loose pace a bit in the middle.
The ending rather puzzled me and Estelle was rather unlikeable.
The writing is good and this is a first novel.
It is a book you want to finish to know all the answers.
Thanks to Netgalley,the author and the publisher for the opportunity to review

Estelle seems to have it all, a successful husband,her own apartment and a cookery book just about to be launched. After surviving a horribly deprived childhood she has finally made good. She lives a "pure life" which is what her pure cookbook is all about but is she kidding herself or her public?

When a teenage girl,Poppy O'Farrell disappears and Estelle is sent a Polaroid photo of her along with threatening notes she has no idea what this has to do with her. To find out she will have to re visit her past,a past she thought she had left behind forever, she will have to go back to Lillysands.

This is a real who done it story. Who is sending threats to Estelle and why? Everyone I read about seemed guilty and I changed my mind many times throughout the story. There was a twist that I didn't see coming which added to the suspense.
There are so many spoilers on Amazon that I urge you to just read the book without reading them.
Tracy Buchanan never fails to produce a good read and I eagerly await her next one.

Did not finish this book as it was very uninteresting to me.

If I'm honest this book didn't wow me from the first page but it did grow on me and towards the end I got more into it.- in fact I stayed up far too late just to get to the end.

Estelle is a successful food writer and is about to publish her first book. She leads a healthy lifestyle and advocates fresh food, clean living where possible. She lives with boyfriend Seb, an ex-Olympic rower. Life seems perfect. However she has kept hidden from everyone the fact that she grew up in the care system and her early years had been chaotic but over time she had worked hard and had created a different persona.

During a dinner party to celebrate her success a small bouquet of red flowers is delivered late in the evening. The card was addressed to Stel, a name she hadn't used in years.

The next day she while she's being interviewed by journalist who is known for digging deep to get a story, she gets a delivery from her butcher and on top of the delivery is an envelope with the name 'Stel' written on. Inside is a polaroid photograph of a teenage girl and a message that ends with “...I'm watching you. I know everything about you.” Initially she has no idea who the teenager is. She's rattled by this and the fact that the journalist has done some digging and asks her questions about her background and her birth parents that she doesn't really want to answer.

When she realises later it is a photograph of a tv presenter's runaway teenage daughter, she is baffled as she can't see any connection. She calls the Police who tell her someone will call but she feels they haven't really taken her seriously.

All the time you feel her anxiety building as Estelle has no idea who is threatening her or how she might be connected to the missing girl but then she learns something that might connect them. Meanwhile her relationship with her boyfriend isn't going too well and he doesn't seem to very supportive towards her.

Without giving anything away, she decides she has to go to the seaside town of Lillysands where she used to live with the last of her foster parents, Max and Autumn and their son Aiden despite having had no contact with them for years, to try and find some answers. Lillysands didn't appear to have changed in all the time she had been away.

However she does go and see her foster parents and is persuaded to stay until the next day but then gets asked to stay a bit longer to help celebrate Autumn's 60th birthday.

Suffice to say, not everything is rosy and perfect. On the surface, yes but you feel there are darker things happening underneath.

Estelle is a complex character. She grew up in horrendous circumstances (the first pages are a social work report on her when she was very young) and had many problems growing up. Max and Autumn were the foster parents of last resort and she had more or less settled there but left suddenly after the suicide of her foster sister Alice.

It's like the longer Estelle is in Lillysands the more she unravels. A reminder that her perfect life wasn't always so perfect and is really based on lies. Throughout the book there are passages that are very chilling – more threatening notes or someone's thoughts as they watch?

A storm is brewing and emotions are running high. The tension escalates. There are a lot of secrets in the town, and lies. In the meantime Estelle is still searching for Poppy. Will the truth be revealed?

The pace gets better. I actually ended up enjoying the book although I wasn't enthralled initially. . There are a couple of unexpected twists (well I didn't expect them!) which I thought were pretty good.

I've given it 4 stars. I would probably put it somewhere between 3 and 4 but I decided to go with 4 as it kept me reading into the early hours.

Estelle Forster has a successful life. Her blog has thousands of followers, her new book ‘Pure’ tells of her clean lifestyle without processed food or artificial ingredients and her boyfriend is an ex Olympic rower. So when she receives a picture of the runaway/missing daughter of a TV presenter and a note, she cannot think of one reason why it was sent to her.
The beginning had me hooked, the ending had me speculating with all the concluding twists, but the middle dragged. I felt for Estelle as her perfect world began to crumble but for me the imagery of crumbling was overdone although it cleverly showed Estelle’s fragile state of mind.
With twists aplenty this is an ingenious read which needs sticking with.