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Scared to Live
by: Stephen Booth

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780007172108
ISBN: 0007172109
Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: February 05, 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Sales Rank: 65905

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- utter dross
This is the first and last Stephen Booth book I shall buy. It was so boring, dull and tedious that I gave up a third of the way through and put it in the charity bag. I apologise to whoever buys it in the charity shop - but at least it was for a good cause.

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- I struggled with this one
I'd never read anything of Stephen Booth's before and thought this looked promising - four suspicious deaths (one of them especially in very mysterious circumstances) within the first few pages. However, the story dragged on and on and I found it difficult to concentrate on the plot. Had I not had a holiday in Hartington, not far from Matlock, a couple of years ago I think I would have given up about halfway through, but the descriptions of Matlock Bath, the nearby shopping centre in an old converted mill, and the surroundings which were familiar to me helped to hold my interest. By the time I got to the end (and it's quite a long book) I found I really didn't care very much whodunnit, although why they dunnit was more to the point. Having ... Read More:

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- Awful
This is a very bad book. Poor in every way, including the worst way - it is downright dull. It is boring, uninteresting and I found it a real chore to get through. The earlier ones were average (at best) but still better. Avoid.

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- Not bad but not his best
I enjoyed the first half of this book more than the latter. I think the best thing about Stephen Booth's novels is the very English-ness of them and the ordinary, person next door type baddies, and this is lost somewhat in this book with the introduction of the foreign gangsters. It's still quite a good read but not the best in the series. I thought the twist at the end was ok, though not entirely unexpected, I always suspected there would be a bit more to that particular charachter's motives than met the eye. All in all, fairly enjoyable but not as good as Blood on the Tongue.

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- An Exciting Read

A newspaper and magazine journalist for over 25 years, Stephen Booth was born in the English Pennine town of Burnley. He was brought up on the coast at Blackpool, where he began his career in journalism by editing his school magazine and wrote his first 'novel' at the age of 13.

Stephen gave up journalism in 2001 to write crime novels full time. He and his wife Lesley live in a former Georgian dower house near Retford, Nottinghamshire, in Robin Hood country.

To all intents and purposes it seemed like an ordinary accidental fire, but it had tragic consequences, a wife and two children dead. But for DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper the ordinary always meant trouble. This is not the only trouble they are having to ... Read More:

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