I am reading this now and cannot put it down. Gudenkauf, has it it out of the ballpark yet again as she did with THESE THINGS HIDDEN and A BREATH OF SILENCE. ONE BREATH AWAY is a story ripped from the headlines: A gunman is holding children hostage at their school in a small town in Iowa. Who is he? And what is his motive? Through the voices of a female police officer, a third-grade teacher just about to retire, the grandfather of two of the students -- and his daughter lying in a hospital a thousand miles away, and one of the said grandchildren -- Gudenkauf weaves quite the tale that will have readers on the edge of their seats.