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Summary: An action packed thriller
Review: Sally Fenning was being stalked but she never told the police and it is this man who she believes broke into her home, knifed her and killed her daughter. The police never apprehended the killer and Sally's marriage fell apart under the weight of guilt. She married an older man and after two years according to the prenuptial agreement, she was worth forty-six million dollars.One day while stopping at an intersection, Sally is murdered. Her will names six potential heirs: her ex-husband, his divorce lawyer, a reporter, a former hitman, a prosecutor and the stalker. The former hitman Tatum Knight wants the best friend of his brother, lawyer Jack Swyteck, to represent him because just before she died Sally tried to hire him to kill her. As Jack protects his client's interests, someone kills the heirs one by one because according to the turns of the will, the last person living inherits everything. James Grippando's version of Agatha Christie's And Than There Were None is an action packed thriller. Readers won't know who the killer is until the author chooses to reveal it because there are so many suspects with forty-six million motives. There is no honor among thieves as the potential heirs play dirty tricks and one even murders the competition. LAST TO DIE shows how far people will go to inherit a fortune which is a sad indictment on the heirs selling their souls as the author intended it to be. This haunting thriller will long be remembered because the stalker, killer, and heir turn out to be the one person it seems incapable of killing Sally's daughter. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: 4 1/2 stars
Review: See storyline above. James Grippando is another of my favorite authors. He never has disappointed me yet.
His latest starts with a bang and doesn't let up till the end. It has witty dialogue (especially between Theo and Jack) along with a writing style that will keep you turning the pages.
I recommend this to everyone who likes a good mystery/thriller.
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Summary: A real pleaser
Review: Seems every novel I read by Mr. Grippando is a pleaser. He seems to always hit the spot. To have built this story with self assasination, revenge and a extra twist in the conclusion shows the abilitys of a fine writer. I am a avid reader and when I see his name I grab the book without reading the story line, I know it will always be a good read.
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Summary: Last To Die forces you to be the last one awake!
Review: Start this book when you have plenty of time because you won't
be able to put it down. If you've read the other reviews you
know Sally Fenning left millions to people she wanted to be at
each others throats. As each died I had no clue who was doing it. I did know who "Alan Sirap" was, but that was a lucky guess.
No matter how many characters or plot twists there are, James Grippando never lets you get lost. His last book, "A King's Ransom" was Killer.........and so is this one. Now I'll have to wait for the next one to appear. I found an author I love and I'm not going to let him get away from me!
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Summary: Last to die gets the dough!
Review: This is my 3rd Grippando book and one of the best whodonits that I have read in a while
Imagine this, Sally Fenning is a beautiful, young woman who has decided to end her life. Her life has been tragic since her young daughter was murdered and she was stabbed by a stalker who the police failed to catch and she feels she has nothing to gain. She asks a contract killer to do the deed. He refuses, she ends up dead anyway and she names him in her will. Along with Tatum, the contract killer, Sally also adds her ex-husband, the divorce lawyer, the DA that covered the investigation, a reporter who was planning on writing a book based on Sally's tragedy and finally a stranger name Alan Sirap to the list of beneficiaries. The amount of the inheritance is $46 million and only the last person living will collect the "jackpot".
This is where the fun starts. Jack Swyteck, best friend of the contract killer's brother is hired to defend Tatum and try to secure the inheritance for his client. Jack is too much of a good guy not to be bothered by the fact that this beautiful mysterious women decides to include the person that she hired to kill her, in her will.
As you coast along the book, you will start to understand the reason why each person was named in the will and you will also have fun trying to figure out who is killing each of the beneficiaries and who is Alan Sirap?
Grippando keeps me entertained and also on the edge of my seat, trying to answer all the questions before the book ended.
He just seems to get better with each book that I read. One of my fav.
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Summary: Excellent read!
Review: This is my favorite Swyteck novel so far (I have read all 3 in series up to date). I have read five of eight Grippando's novels and he hasn't disappointed me so far. I will look forward to Swyteck novel #4 coming out in 2005.
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Summary: EDGE OF THE SEAT!!!
Review: This is one of his best. If what happend in this novel ever happend to me I don't know what I would do. Well hopefully make it out alive ;D Keeps you on the edge and his books always have twists and turns so you never know what is going to happen. Buckle of for this ride and it's one of those ones you just don't want to stop reading.
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Summary: EDGE OF THE SEAT!!!
Review: This is one of his best. If what happend in this novel ever happend to me I don't know what I would do. Well hopefully make it out alive ;D Keeps you on the edge and his books always have twists and turns so you never know what is going to happen. Buckle of for this ride and it's one of those ones you just don't want to stop reading.
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Summary: Love Grippando's Southern Style and Sense of Humor!
Review: This is the second book by Grippando I've read. Wasn't too sure I liked the ending with "Beyond Suspicion," but I have nothing but positive comments to make about "Last to Die". Sally Fenning, young, beautiful and very rich, does not want to live. She tries to hire former contract killer Tatum Knight, brother of Jack Swyteck's best friend, Theo, to murder her. Although Tatum claims he turned her down, Sally is murdered two weeks later. Tatum hires Jack to represent him since Sally had named him as one of the six beneficiaries to her estate. Here's the catch: the 46 million dollars will not be disbursed until all of the heirs but one are deceased. That's where the fun starts. Grippando touches upon a very real, very tragic world situation in this book: child slavery in Africa, where thousands of children are forced to labor in cocoa fields. Believe me, I look at chocolate in a different way now. However, he balances this dark subject with the lighter, comedic relationship between Jack and his somewhat unsavory but lovable friend, Theo. I think Grippando is proving himself to be a mainstay in the legal thriller arena and each book in the Swyteck series seems to entrench him further in a genre that had become tired until he put Swyteck to paper. I'm a fan!
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Summary: On par with Grippando's previous excellent novels
Review: What can I say? James Grippando has a uncanny ability to write stories that feel fresh and exciting. This book is a good follow up in the Swyteck series. Fresh characters and a well written story make this a exciting read. I'm looking forward to Grippando's "Hear no Evil". This is going to be the 4th Swyteck novel. This one is coming out Aug of 2004 and I'm putting my time aside to enjoy this one. Thanks James for your hard work and efforts. Well done.
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