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One Last Breath
by: Stephen Booth

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780007172047
ISBN: 0007172044
Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Number Of Pages: 656
Publication Date: April 04, 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Sales Rank: 20031

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Not Booth's Best
Compared with the only other Stephen Booth book that I have read (Blood on the Tongue), this was something of a disappointment. It's one of those massive books (650 pages) within which there is a taut, streamlined - and shorter - novel trying to get out. The characterisation was good, and the loose ends were tied up neatly at the end, but the plotting was somewhat sluggish. A diverting enough read, however, with an excellently realised sense of place.

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- Puzzling and Frustrating
I can honestly say that by the time I'd finished this book, I had not a clue what had happened in it. I'm a careful reader, and I usually manage to follow even the most complicated of plots, but at the end of this novel I didn't know who'd killed whom and why, and nor did I care. I spent some time trying to go over it all in my mind, but I couldn't make it add up, and I can't say I really enjoyed reading this book. There was something drab, squalid and depressing about the writing style, and Ben and Diane, the two police protagonists, made me want to sigh deeply every time they appeared. This is the sort of book that might have been written by one's long-winded and rather dull grandfather.

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- Another winning novel from Stephen Booth
Another winning novel from Stephen Booth. I really enjoyed ONE LAST BREATH and in the 646 pages I thought it was great. For those who haven't read the book I won't give the plot away suffice to say that it really held me. Stephen has always been excellent at descriptions in his novels whether it be the Crime Scene or the descriptions of the Derbyshire Hills.

Diane Fry is a really good character and I like her tough no nonsense approach and she really means business in the novel as indeed she has meant business in previous books. Although she tells Cooper off I still think they are fond of each other but because of the profession and the situations they find themselves in they really cannot progress in a romantic sort of way. (Or ... Read More:

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- Long, boring, shallow ...
I had been told about Stephen Booth some time ago and was looking forward to this the first of his books I've read.
What started off as an anticipated adventure with a new author turned into a boring marathon. A decent editor would have ditched 400 pages and the book would have been much better for it, we certainly wouldn't have been losing any 'purple prose'!
The characters were unsympathetically drawn, and there were too many of them. The 'action' was tedious and the plot tenuous. If this is typical of Stephen Booth's work I won't be rushing to read any more - sadly.

Rating:

- a superb read
This is by far the best book of the series so far. The opening chapters set the scene perfectly. Its a definite page turner that will keep you reading for hours. The exciting and thrilling plot will keep you on the edge of your seat

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