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Last Gasp

By: Robert F. Barker
Narrated by: Guy Mott
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The last time DCI Jamie Carver involved a would-be victim in his hunt for a serial killer, it ended badly. Now they want him to do it again, only this time the 'victim' is a Dominatrix.

As if he hasn't enough on his plate - a brutal killer poised to strike again; shadows of the past that still haunt his dreams; an investigation under mounting pressure to succeed; a beautiful woman whose bizzare lifestyle may be the key to finding the killer. And that's not counting the young girl whose life he's trying to save from ruin or the ambitious colleague scheming to bring him down.

As the kill count mounts, signs point to a link with Carver's first serial killer case - that of the notorious Escort Killer, Edmund Hart. But Hart is dead, having hung himself in prison, so how can that be?

This is just one of the mysteries Carver must solve in this gripping first outing for the detective who knows his reputation as the UK's foremost serial sex crime investigator is built on sand. And when the killer strikes at the heart of the investigation, he knows that in order to protect those closest, he must confront what he most fears - his own failings.

©2015 Robert F. Barker (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Crime Thrillers Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Scary Murder
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Just not my thing overall, I didn’t enjoy story line or content. I didn’t pay for this book 📕

Last Gasp

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The reader was good, the book bad. The protagonist, Jamie Carver, lived his life as a golden boy, without even the nouse to recognise that his top cop dad clearly pulled strings to get him fast-tracked to a senior detective position at a young age. Then the poor little golden boy got involved in a tricky and disturbing serial killer case and totally lost it. Now he spends his time obsessing over it, without trying to process it or deal with the lingering baggage. On top of that, the minute he sees a beautiful woman he loses his mind and becomes a drooling idiot. This trait caused major problems in the serial killer case and causes more in this book. Luckily he has lots of "strong" (ie bossy and arrogant ) women in his life to keep him vaguely on track. One of them is his DS, who snoops, pries, interferes and gossips - with the best of intentions, of course. That, said, there are some decent women in the book who do their best to give Carver a clue when he's particularly naive and oblivious, though why his girlfriend sticks it I cannot say. I don't think the author intended to write a book about a self-centred, self-pitying, none too bright guy who gained his senior rank through nepotism, but he did. This book was free and Audible should make the whole series free so that I can laugh my way through the rest of this rubbish. I certainly won't drop a credit on any more of it.

Utterly incredible rubbish

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