- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (5 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 074322146X
- ISBN-13: 978-0743221467
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,512,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When she is attacked and knocked unconscious, Nottingham social worker Jo Elliot assumes she was merely unlucky, the random victim of an opportune mugging. But as the days pass, Jo begins to suspect that she was being deliberately targeted.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mixed feelings,
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This review is from: Death Duty (Paperback)
I bought this book after reading the rave reviews by other readers, as it sounded as though it was the kind of book that I really enjoy. However, for me the fact that the main character - Social Worker Jo Elliot - was so obstinate, and behaved in a way that I found difficult to believe she would have got away with in real life, spoilt it. There were times when I was so annoyed by this that I nearly gave up but I persevered and in the end I was glad that I had. Even so, I still have rather mixed feelings about it, and would hesitate to recommend it to my friends. I shall try to get a copy of 'Beholden' and see if that has the same effect on me. On the plus side, the book is certainly different, but you do need to feel some kind of empathy for the lead character in a novel. If I had felt this, then it would have made the ending even more powerful.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Tension factor set to zero,
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This review is from: Death Duty (Paperback)
Death Duty is set in Nottingham and begins with an attack on a social worker. Not the most exciting premise for a novel in terms of location and event and from there it's downhill all the way. Any tension set up by the initial attack is soon squandered as pages are devoted to describing the life of the book's main character: Jo Elliot. She has no hobbies, no boyfriend, not even an interesting pet. She's a social worker. That's about it. No one dies. No one even gets arrested, not even Jo when she inadvertently lifts a bottle or wine from the local Asda. When we reach the grand denoument (and someone does eventually die) it turns out that the terrible act on which all this hinges was that Jo had two boys taken into care and was "really nasty" about it.
Oh dear. With material like this, it's hard to get engrossed. Also, it's poorly edited - one character is in possession of a "larva" lamp. Eurgh.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay,
By Mandy "dreaming_angel" (England.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death Duty (Paperback)
I was drawn to this book because Jo, the main character, is a social worker and I am training to be one. However, I think this was a disadvantage when reading this because I found many of the things Jo did completely unbelievable and although I liked her at first, I quickly became astonished at how she was not struck off due to some of her actions.
The story itself was good, it did keep me interested until the last few chapters, when I think it became a bit too far-fetched. However, I did want to know how it would end and read it quite quickly. I probably would read other books by the author, although this book was not as good as I was expecting.
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