Midnight, Amy McCulloch
Midnight, Amy McCulloch
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Midnight
A Thriller

Author: Amy McCulloch

Narrator: Cathleen McCarron

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2024


Synopsis

In this pulse-pounding thriller, a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica—to camp beneath the legendary midnight sun—becomes a desperate battle for survival against a killer determined to follow their prey to the ends of the earth.

"Midnight is a clever mystery, a twisting page-turner, and a blistering adventure." —Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End

THE SUN NEVER SETS AND THIS KILLER NEVER SLEEPS

In the frigid summers of the Antarctic continent, the sun never sets, and Olivia Campbell has long dreamed of spending a sunlit night in this beautiful, remote place. So when her boyfriend—a high-powered art dealer with a taste for the finer things in life—decides to stage an ostentatious, career-making auction aboard a luxury cruise liner to Antarctica, Olivia can hardly believe her luck. That is, until the ship sets sail and her boyfriend is nowhere to be found, and she is left to manage both the auction and her own creeping fear of the open ocean entirely alone. And as though that weren't enough, the first bodies turn up soon after. 

It seems like a terrible accident. This is the Drake Passage, after all, one of the most notorious bodies of water on the planet, and there are always risks in such extreme conditions. But as the situation deteriorates, it soon becomes clear that there is real danger on board—and that the closest help is hundreds of miles away. With tensions rising and temperatures plummeting, Olivia wonders whether she's booked a fabulous adventure . . . or a one-way ticket to her own destruction.

About The Author

AMY McCULLOCH is the author of Breathless and Midnight, as well as eight novels for children and young adults, including the internationally bestselling YA novel The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow. She is the youngest Canadian woman to climb Manaslu in Nepal—the world’s eighth-highest mountain. She has also summited the highest mountain in the Americas, Aconcagua, participated in the Marathon des Sables in the Sahara Desert, and visited all seven continents. She lives outside of London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bookishrealm on January 26, 2024

Mannnn I was so excited to read this one, but it ultimately let me down. Midnight is an adult thriller that follows main character Olivia who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to travel to Antartica on behalf of her art investor boyfriend. After securing a client who unfortunately has an untimely de......more

Goodreads review by Wendy Darling on January 13, 2024

A couple of nice moments describing short excursions during an Antarctic cruise, though not nearly enough of them. You don't get enough sense of the vastness and isolation and snowiness of the setting, though a curious penguin does make an appearance. Mystery and characterization are underwhelming,......more

Goodreads review by Frank on January 15, 2024

My first disappointment of 2024!! I really, really loved this author's debut novel, Breathless, and was really looking forward to reading her follow up, however this one was a big letdown for me, unfortunately. Why? Well, to begin with, it was so very SLOW, and I had to force myself to continue readin......more

Goodreads review by Diana on February 04, 2024

3.25 Stars — For me, this book's strong point is the atmospheric setting. As an armchair traveler, the Antarctic cruise in MIDNIGHT was amazing. Sailing along with these characters as they cross the treacherous Drake Passage and camp on the frozen continent is about as close to Antarctica as I'll ge......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 15, 2023

2.5 / 5 Meh, given how bad breathless the first book was I thought surely you can’t produce another book subpar to it. But nope this was just as a disappointment as the first book. It’s that bad that I don’t really want to waste any of my brain cells remembering this plot. It was boring slow and sad......more


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Praise for Amy McCulloch's Midnight

"Enthralling. . . . Combines an intricate murder mystery with lyrical passages describing ice cliffs and spectacular skies. . . . [McCulloch] has an eye for edgy and unusual settings, and the new novel is easily as good as her first." Sunday Times (UK)

"Amy McCulloch is the ice queen of the stone-cold, twisting thriller. Midnight is chillingly atmospheric, with sub-zero tension and a creeping plot that makes it impossible to look away. I will never not read what she writes!" —Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The Appeal

"Chills, thrills and intense suspense. . . . Midnight is a clever mystery, a twisting page-turner, and a blistering adventure." —Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End

"A chilling, atmospheric rollercoaster of a read filled with clever unpredictable twists and beautiful imagery of Antarctica. I loved it! Amy McCulloch is the queen of the adventure thriller! —Claire Douglas, author of The Girls Who Disappeared

"In Midnight, Amy McCulloch takes us on her most adrenaline-fuelled adventure yet. Transportive, absorbing and perfectly paced. You won't want to miss it!" —Lucy Clarke, author of One of the Girls