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- Publisher: Forge (Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312870787
- ISBN-13: 978-0312870782
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"An original, well-written, and often demanding novel". -- Library Journal on Nazareth Hill
"A visceral finale that will startle even the most jaded. Sympathetic characters whose actions blur the boundaries between good and evil... contribute to the novel's complexity". -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Nazareth Hill
"Shocking surprises, alarming horrors, and believable characters -- all expertly blended in a fresh, deft shocker". -- Kirkus Reviews on Nazareth Hill
In The Last Voice They Hear, Campbell continues to focus on the family, as he did in The One Safe Place and Nazareth Hill. For Campbell, the family can be a repository of great strength -- but it can also be the source of nightmare.
Geoff is a happily married man with a successful career as an investigative journalist and a new book to promote. He's in the middle of a publicity tour when his past comes back with a vengeance. A long-missing but never forgotten voice comes out of the phone, and Geoff is suddenly caught up in the most important investigation of his life.
Someone is killing happily married couples in the Windsor area, selecting them carefully, looking for the right combination of age and attitude, the right sort of family ties.
That someone just might be Geoff's brother Ben.
"Ramsey Campbell is highly regarded for his sensitive use of the language and his ability to create psychologically complex characters". -- Dean Koontz
"Menace has always been his keynote ... His fiction (is) felt and experienced, and affect(s) the reader for days afterward". -- Peter Straub
"Beautiful and terrifying ... Campbell is a powerful, original writer, and you owe it to yourself to make his acquaintance". --Washington Post Book World
"Gripping. The climax is stunningly written. Nazareth Hill (is) a superb example of successful disturbing fiction". -- Book Page --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I read an advanced proof of this book and can tell you it is Campbell at the top of his form. Geoff Davenport is a successful investigative journalist working on a high profile TV series. His wife works in TV too, and they have a young son, Paul. Someone has been quietly killing couples in the Windsor area for a number of years but the police have no leads. A telephone call taken by Geoff on a publicity tour brings his childhood roaring back to haunt him. And the killer might be a part of that past, Geoff's half brother Ben. Campbell has here written an intense and emotional thriller with enough suspense to keep us turning the pages long after lights out. The climax of the book is one of the most tense I have ever read and did my fingernails no favours at all! Highly, highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Investigative reporter Geoff Davenport is happy with both his personal and professional lives. He loves his wife and his job. He is currently on an enjoyable publicity tour of Britain, trying to sell his newly released book. For Geoff, life is good.
However, one phone call in the middle of the night abruptly turns everything upside down for Geoff. The voice on the other end apparently is his brother Ben, who accuses Geoff of letting it happen.
At about the same time, a serial killer is murdering happily married couples. Goeff thinks the culprit is Ben. He decides to investigate the killings in an effort to stop them in case it is a family affair.
Ramsey Campbell has a richly deserved reputation for his quality novels outlining the strengths and weaknesses of families (see ONE SAFE PLACE and NAZARETH HILL). His latest book, THE LAST VOICE THEY HEAR, is a brilliant thriller that emphasizes the down side of familial rellationships. Geoff is a wonderful amateur sleuth, and his investigation and fears ring true. Mr. Campbell has written a shocker that is most people's worst nightmare.
.Harriet Klausner
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Despite his powerful work as a horror writer for over 20 years, Ramsey Campbell may be finding that horror is not selling as well as it used to. His subtle and ingenious tales of internal horrors manifested in terrifying reality have given way to a trend that seems dictated by popular demand and editorial constraint. This is not to say that he is not a master of this form, since I would dare anyone to compare The Face That Must Die with Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho and find the British work inferior - I regard this as his landmark work, bereft of humanity and unrelentingly dark. But it is odd that even Shaun Hutson - who I feel ashamed to mention in a review of a true writer - is now submitting novels about London's gangland a la Snatch and Two Smoking Barrels. It is a trend that the general public is dictating, and which is cyclical in horror fiction, largely brought on by the influx of bad, derivative efforts that strain the masses patience and pockets. But here, Ramsey Campbell shows that horror is a universal context found almost anywhere in good literature, and not just a label imposed by PR spin-merchants. Characters are imbued with traits that are both recognisable and uncomfortable. The nature of evil is addressed, and shown as a part of so much we hold dear. Casual sadism towards children, institutionalised prejudices, and the unshakeable nightmare of perception. These are used with skill and variety, in a world where any motive is questionable, and every personality is only a step away from breaking down. Ramsey Campbell has seen the horror of today, in the tradition of the works of Robert Bloch, and the real terror is still coming from within - even when we mean the best. Stephen King may be "The King Of Horror", but there are those among us who believe that Ramsey Campbell has seen that we are all exponents of horror, channeling these intents for good or ill, and he is simply cast as the visionary to warn us all. We must read these works, and we must recognise ourselves.
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