Death Minus Zero [Hardcover]

John Baker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 26, 1996

When Norman bursts out of Dartmoor, he heads for York, where Selina lives. His favourite lust object, prison psychiatrist Jennie Cosgrove, also lives there, which makes it doubly desirable. This is the second Sam Turner novel.

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John Baker is the author of four Sam Turner novels, Poet in the Corner, Death Minus Zero and Walking With Ghosts. His latest novel is The Chinese Girl. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Gollancz; First edition (September 26, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0575063815
• ISBN-13: 978-0575063815
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,887,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Death Minus Zero - No Limit, September 24, 2005

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Vesta Irene (the Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Minus Zero (Sam Taylor Mysteries) (Paperback)

Sam Turner is fifty-something, kind, but tough when he has to be. And he's a recovering alcoholic who listens to a lot of Bob Dylan. His private investigation firm is off to a good start. Attorneys, insurance companies, and private citizens have started coming to him and he's encouraged by his early success.

Meanwhile a mentally unbalanced inmate named Norman Bunce has escaped from Dartmoor prison and he brutally robs and plunders, kills and corrupts his way up to York while Sam is getting his act together. When Norman gets to town he hires Sam to find an ex-girlfriend he calls Snow White (because she'd made off with his stash). Sam sees straightaway that Norman might not be the most straightforward, straight and narrow client on the planet, but he's short on cash so he takes the case.

Norman moves in with Janet, a girl rowing with only one oar in the water who has a crush on John Lennon. But he can't help himself and soon unexplained bodies start piling up. Sam is suspicious about Norman so he has him followed and Norman begins to suspect that Sam is on to him.

Sam Turner is an engaging character, as is Norman in his own way. Add to the mix the splendid supporting cast and you have a book that is impossible not to like. I loved it and it gets five stars from me.

Reviewed by Vesta Irene

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very good read., April 9, 2005

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L. J. Roberts (Oakland, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death Minus Zero (Paperback)

This series came recommended to me by one of my U.K. booksellers. I read the first in the series and wasn't completely sold, but I am now. Sam and his staff are great characters and well written. I cheered the end of the book, not because I was glad to see it end but because the end was very well deserved. Happily, books 3 - 5 are waiting on my shelf.