Sibel Hodge's "Their Last Breath"

Sibel Hodge is the bestselling author of Look Behind You, Untouchable, Duplicity, and Into the Darkness. Her books have sold over a million copies in the UK, USA, Australia, France, Canada and Germany.

Here Hodge dreamcasts an adaptation of her new novel, Their Last Breath:

Whenever I’m writing I always see the scenes play out in my head like a movie, and I think that helps to keep the narration quite visual. Sometimes I see the characters as actors I’m familiar with, sometimes they’re just faceless, but their traits and quirks are what shine through to me.

Their Last Breath has three main points of view. Detective Warren Carter is an experienced cop brought out of retirement to potentially investigate one of his own colleagues. He’s tenacious, driven, and has a strong sense of justice, but at the same time he’s prepared to break the rules to protect the most vulnerable. He’s also got a great British dry sense of humour. Even though Carter’s face was elusive to me when writing, I’d probably have a few choices: Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, or Liam Neeson, who are all incredibly talented.

Detective Becky Harris is the second POV. Mentored by Detective Carter and now working on a different team, she’s similar to him in a lot of ways. She’s feisty, with a good sense of humour, and prepared to take risks. Writing her, I always picture Olivia Colman from the fantastic series Broadchurch. She’d definitely make an amazing Becky but that's probably stereotyping her!

The third POV is a Syrian refugee called Hayat with a heartbreaking story to tell, but I wouldn’t know who to pick! There are amazing Middle Eastern actresses out there but I’m out of the loop with any around the early 20s age.

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My Book, The Movie: Untouchable.

My Book, The Movie: Into the Darkness.

--Marshal Zeringue