Try Not to Breathe by Holly Seddon

Amy Stevenson was the biggest news story of 1995. Only fifteen years old, Amy disappeared walking home from school one day and was found in a coma three days later. Her attacker was never identified and her angelic face was plastered across every paper and nightly news segment.
Fifteen years later, Amy lies in the hospital, surrounded by 90’s Britpop posters, forgotten by the world until reporter Alex Dale stumbles across her while researching a routine story on vegetative patients.
Remembering Amy’s story like it was yesterday, she feels compelled to solve the long-cold case.
The only problem is, Alex is just as lost as Amy—her alcoholism has cost her everything including her marriage and her professional reputation.
In the hopes that finding Amy’s attacker will be her own salvation as well, Alex embarks on a dangerous investigation, suspecting someone close to Amy.

Review: I was given an ARC of Try Not to Breathe from NetGalley for an honest review and this is my review.
This was the debut book for Holly Seddon and a wonderful debut she made. This book was excellent. It had an emotional impact that had the reader cheering for Alex and hoping that she could beat her battle with the bottle to accomplish getting Amy's story written. It also had the suspenseful edge of what really happened to Amy and who did that a lot of veteran authors do not write as well as this new author did.
This book is the total package with well developed characters, great in depth story lines for each main character in the book and a connection that is built between the reader and the characters that last even when the last words are read.
I am giving Try Not to Breathe five out of five stars.