Last Breath (original 2001; edition 2001)

by Michael Prescott

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Caitlin Osborn was only ten years old when he came for her the first time. Now, 16 years later, LAPD Officer Osborn still suffers from her inescapable childhood fears--made all the more real by a recent wave of bizarre murders. She can see his shadow moving outside her window. She can feel his footsteps--and she recognizes his foul whispers.… (more)

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Title:	Last Breath
Authors:	Michael Prescott
Info:	Signet (2001), Paperback, 400 pages
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This book started off great. The prologue was truly scary and creepy. After that, the book settled into the usual hunt for a serial killer procedural. I liked the main character, CJ. She was a strong woman who didn't give up. Even though the plot was a little predictable, it still moved along nicely, and kept up the action through out. This was the second book by Michael Prescott that I have read, and I plan to read more. He is a very entertaining author. (

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readingover50 | Jun 11, 2019 |

C.J. Osborn was ten years old when the boogeyman came for her. Ever since, she has feared his return.

Now an LAPD cop, C.J. faces danger every day on the streets of Newton Division - Shootin' Newton," the city's roughest territory. But the greatest danger lies in C.J.'s own home, where a stranger's eyes are watching her - a stranger who plans to finish what he started sixteen years ago ...

Suspenseful, fast-moving with twists and turns you don't see coming. I can always depend on Michael Prescott to keep me on the edge of my seat!. Very enjoyable." (

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Bettesbooks | Jul 29, 2016 |

Last Breath by Michael Prescott has a good premise (the boogeyman appears to a small girl, and she battles fear all her life), and the characters have a lot of potential. However, the plot hinged on coincidences and didn't seem plausible to me. (

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cmwilson101 | Aug 24, 2011 |

Good mystery. Creepy serial killer chases child, no one believes her. She grows up to chase criminals. Pretty cliche but a good read. (

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cal8769 | Oct 4, 2008 |

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2001

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I don't think any tragedy in literature that I have ever come across impressed me so much as the first one, that I spelled out slowly for myself in words of three letters: the bad fox has got the red hen. There was something so dramatically complete about it; the badness of the fox, added to all the traditional guile of his race, seemed to heighten the horror of the hen's fate, and there was such a suggestion of masterful malice about the word "got." One felt that a country-side in arms would not get that hen away from the bad fox.
-Saki (H.H. Munro), The Unbearable Bassington

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C.J. Osborn was ten years old when the boogeyman came for her.

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Caitlin Osborn was only ten years old when he came for her the first time. Now, 16 years later, LAPD Officer Osborn still suffers from her inescapable childhood fears--made all the more real by a recent wave of bizarre murders. She can see his shadow moving outside her window. She can feel his footsteps--and she recognizes his foul whispers.

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