The Last Best Hope (Matthew Hope Mysteries): Amazon.de: Ed McBain: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 304 Seiten
Verlag: Grand Central Publishing; Auflage: First THUS (1. Januar 1999)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0446606731
ISBN-13: 978-0446606738
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 10,5 x 2,2 x 17,1 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (6 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.284.383 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Divorced from his wife, recovering from a coma and tired of living in Calusa, Florida, Matthew Hope has reached the end of his spiritual tether. When Jill Lawton hires him to find her husband, who's been seen "up north" with another woman, Hope thinks it's just another failed marriage ... until a body washes up on the beach with no face and Jack Lawton's driver's licence in his pocket.

Hope enlists the help of Steve Carella, from the 87th precinct, and together they find that the Lawtons weren't the ordinary, wholesome, tennis club members that they appeared to be. Jack Lawton is planning to steal a prized Greek artefact from the Calusa museum. Jill has a plan of her own, and both of them are sleeping with Melanie Schwartz, who is also sleeping with Peter Donofrio and Ernest Corrington-- both ex-cons.

The Last Best Hope is a wild ride. It starts out as a sleepy, love-gone-bad story and twists itself into a tightly wound tale of murder, deception and kinky sex. Almost every character is unpredictable and almost every character is a suspect. Ed McBain's two series characters--Hope and Carella--make a powerful team and the friendship that develops through the book lends the story an important sympathetic element. -- Mara Friedman -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Matthew Hope is at the end of his spiritual rope. He's divorced from his wife, recovering from a coma and tired of living in Calusa, Florida. When Jill Lawton hires him to find her husband, who's been seen "up north" with another woman, Hope thinks it's just another failed marriage ... until a body washes up on the beach with no face and Jack Lawton's driver's license in his pocket.

Hope enlists the help of Steve Carella, from the 87th precinct, and together they find that the Lawtons weren't the wholesome, tennis club members that they appeared to be. Jack Lawton is planning to steal a prized Greek artifact from the Calusa museum. Jill has a plan of her own, and both of them are sleeping with Melanie Schwartz, who is also sleeping with Peter Donofrio and Ernest Corrington-both ex cons.

The Last Best Hope is a wild ride. It starts out as a sleepy, love-gone-bad story and twists itself into a tightly wound tale of murder, deception and kinky sex. Almost every character is unpredictable and almost every character is a suspect. Ed McBain's two series characters-Hope and Carella-make a powerful team and the friendship that develops through the book lends the story an important sympathetic element. -- Mara Friedman -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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Intriguing plot but disappointing ending 14. Oktober 1999

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Well written and fast paced. I usually love these stories, but as exciting as the ending started off, the payoff was abrupt and unbelievable.

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great book suspense all the way 3. Juni 1999

Format:Gebundene Ausgabe

ed mcbain is a great writer his matthew hope books are great books not his best but one of his good ones

Enthralling, captivating, sensually titilating; immense void 19. Mai 1999

I have read several other books written by the author. He shamelessly gets right down to the nitty gritty. In an unabashed style, he puts the reader in close company with his characters. With this novel, he had me lapping up each and every word; soaking up the content completely. It was as if I were on the production set of this book as a movie, watching the scenes unfold. The sex scenes were captivating and sensually titilating; the hunt for the missing husband was enthralling - as the reader went from the suffocating humidity of Florida to snowbound New York. The way he took the reader in and out of the present was fabulous. Nonetheless, the spellbinding effect was completely shattered, when at the end of the book - after all the characters and the parts they played had been revealed - the reader was left floundering on dry land like a fish that had been playing too close to the water's edge, expecting the tide to come and go again. Without any forewarning, after reaching the proverbial lead in for the greatest climax ever, the book ran out of steam and ended leaving the reader with feelings of immense void, vagueness, and extreme query.