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'Very engaging as well as ingenious, and the unravelling of the mystery is excellently done...Very enjoyable. FATAL LAST WORDS will accompany many on their holidays and quite right too'
(Allan Massie, Scotsman )
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It's no ordinary summer for DCC Bob Skinner, as murder mystery leaps from the page into reality in the nineteenth volume of Quintin Jardine's outstanding cop series.
It's August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing. So it's a considerable embarrassment when one of Scotland's most successful crime writers is found dead in the author tent. The victim's phone was tapped. Are the spooks involved? Or has mystery fiction become true crime? A second victim begs the question: have the authors become targets themselves?
It's August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing. So it's a considerable embarrassment when one of Scotland's most successful crime writers is found dead in the author tent. The victim's phone was tapped. Are the spooks involved? Or has mystery fiction become true crime? A second victim begs the question: have the authors become targets themselves?
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A barely-credible plot, with implausible coincidences and connections; a pointless and irrelevant sub-plot involving his daughter and former best mate, and quite the most "convenient" promotion to high office.
Jardine still persists in using this awful device of having the characters speak to the reader instead of to each other. So much of the dialogue involves one character telling another things that he already knows, as a way of reminding the reader what happened in previous narratives.
This is quite the worst Skinner novel yet.
Jardine still persists in using this awful device of having the characters speak to the reader instead of to each other. So much of the dialogue involves one character telling another things that he already knows, as a way of reminding the reader what happened in previous narratives.
This is quite the worst Skinner novel yet.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've read the entire series - not proud of it but we all have our guilty pastimes. This is, by my lights, the most self-indulgent of the lot and one where Jardine's weaknesses overwhelm his strengths. You'll find the sudden, inexplicable (but for plot movement) changes of behaviour that his characters are prone to, the unguessable (because the author won't show you all the cards) denouement, Skinner solving it all with a "Hmmm" and a long stare into the distance... all the hallmarks of a Jardine mystery. Those are the good bits. The bad, in my view, are the over-indulgence in horribly clumsy puns, clanking meta-textual excursions, and Jardine's belief that rim-shot-accompanied, blatantly telegraphed authorial interjections will be read as light comic touches. I'll buy the next one - they don't call it a bad habit for nothing - but I do hope he sticks more firmly to action, melodrama and his well-conceived version of the real Edinburgh in future.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would have considered this a good read, though not one of the best Skinner novels (I've bought them all), had it not been ruined for me once I spotted, very early on, the author's 'joke' in making this into a 'spot the crime-writer' game - totally ruining any possiblity of getting absorbed in the story. A great pity.
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Suffolk63
I have not read any of his books yet but bought some on the recommendation of an elderly lady who reads him all the time so I will start reading this book very shortly
Published 5 months ago by Suffolk 63
Thoroughly enjoyed it
I thought this episode in the Skinner saga was wonderful. I really enjoyed it and must have been reading a different book to the negative reviewers! Read more
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Did he do this for a bet?
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Time to retire the series
That is all I want to say: Time to retire the characters and the series. They had their run. The first 10 were reasonably good, the rot set in after that.
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Once again Jardine write's a page turner, and maintains his high standard of story telling . Not easy with an extended series and a single lead character.
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brilliant read from quintin jardine as always
Every time a new skinner book comes out I think it cant be better than his previous one but jardine always manages to do it. Couldnt put this book down once I started it.
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