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Lucas Stonecoat #4
Final Edge
The bodies of young girls are turning up--piece by piece. The ghastly mementos are being delivered to Detective Lucas Stonecoat and Dr. Meredyth Sanger, signaling the beginning of a gruesome game. But who's playing it? Why? And how far will it go? Stonecoat and Sanger are going to find out...
- GenresMystery
464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 24, 2004
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Robert W. Walker
184 books75 followersAka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson
Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
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August 11, 2021Well, the jury is still out on this one. I am not sure what my final opinion will be. Keeps you interested -- indeed you just can't imagine what is going to happen next. Characters believable -- not sure -- law enforcement and the victims seemed ok -- not sure about the villainess and her seduced vet companion. Story -- not sure on this one either. It seems to me that Meredyth was a far-fetched target of this girl. I am sure there were other people that were involved in her never being adopted --- for her to go back so long and pick out some volunteer student in the court house/childrens services that signed her into the orphanage is kind of pushing the reality button. I will read another of his books if I come across one then I'll have something to compare it to. On to Mary Higgins Clark for a little light reading!
December 7, 2019
Story was pretty good. Not great, but it did keep my attention.
The authors lack of attention to detail, and failure to do basic research does however annoy me.
Example 1: The author refers to a "German made Glock". Glocks are pistols made in Austra, not Germany.
Example 2: Main character (Lucus) states that the victim was "only a couple of years older than us". This implies that Lucas and Meredith are about the same age. Meredith states later in the book that she was 18 in 1984. So if Lucas was also about 18 in 1984, how could he be th he Veitnam veteran he claimed to be at the beginning of the book? Confusing and contradictory!
The authors lack of attention to detail, and failure to do basic research does however annoy me.
Example 1: The author refers to a "German made Glock". Glocks are pistols made in Austra, not Germany.
Example 2: Main character (Lucus) states that the victim was "only a couple of years older than us". This implies that Lucas and Meredith are about the same age. Meredith states later in the book that she was 18 in 1984. So if Lucas was also about 18 in 1984, how could he be th he Veitnam veteran he claimed to be at the beginning of the book? Confusing and contradictory!
September 23, 2021
This gets one star because I can’t give it zero. I honestly had to choose not to write the review in my head because it would take too long and only upset me again. Don’t waste your time. Racist, sexist, stupidly plotted with unbelievable characters and the clumsiest dialogue.
April 19, 2009
Walker needs to do his homework...sets a novel in Houston, TX and has his main character drives one hour to the desert. The desert is a good fifteen hour drive from Houston. There are so many geographical and sociological errors regarding Texas in the book that it is obvious that the author has his knowledge of the state from old western movies.
The plot was good and once you get half way into it the book becomes interesting enough that you want to keep turning pages.
The plot was good and once you get half way into it the book becomes interesting enough that you want to keep turning pages.
September 2, 2010
This book seemed to last forever. Itis 457 pages and seemed very violent at first--even disgusting. Lucas Stonecoat, a police officer, and Meredith Sanger had something going at an earlier time as they team up to solve a murder, and hopefully prevent more. They plod on and the killer, a severely deranged young woman who hates Meredith, leaves pieces of corpse for them to find. There were times when I felt bogged down. Obviously, other people found it more compelling.
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