Last Step

by Kathleen Walls

Vickie's daughter is dead. Just one more dead druggie among the hundreds that die each year in Jacksonville's drug infested slums. The police aren't concerned about her drug-related death. VICKIE needs to find the answer. Was it an accidental overdose, or murder? To find the answer, she must leave her safe life behind and plunge into the terrors of the drug culture. Will the search lead her to love? Or will she end up on a morgue slab, just one more casualty in the war against drugs? HANK His mistakes caused the death of those he loved most. Drug addiction is his sworn enemy. His chosen life has no place in it for love until he meets Vickie. JOE His money and power haven't been able to save his marriage or his son's love. He seeks Vickie's love but what are his secrets?

101 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2004

About the author

Kathleen Walls is the author of Georgia’s Ghostly Getaways, Finding Florida’s Phantoms, Last Step, Man Hunt- The Eric Rudolph Story, Kudzu, Tax Sale Tactics Hosts With Ghosts: Haunted Historic Hotels in the Southeast and Wild About Florida, Under a Bloody Flag and Under a Black Flag, all published by Global Authors Publications (GAP). Kathleen is the publisher/owner of GAP. By Any Other Name, an e-book, was her first venture into fiction writing. Several of her books are now audio books and most are also ebooks.
She is currently working on Missing—Gone but not Forgotten, a fictionalized version of a true abduction that occurred near her home in Florida in 2009 and has never been solved.
She is also a successful travel writer/photographer who has been published in numerous publications as well as her own online travel magazine, American Roads (www.americanroads.net ) and several online tour guides.
She is a member of North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) and International Food Wine and Travel Writers Association (IFWTWA).
Her dual B.A. in Anthropology and Sociology from the University of Central Florida gives her a good insight into human behavior which is very helpful in writing realistic novels. You can visit her website at http://katywalls.com/

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

DISCLAIMER: I received a free audiobook copy of this in return for my honest review.

I enjoyed the narration of this audio book.
I felt there were too many characters to keep track of, but the story line was okay and the plot did keep a good pace. Just wasn't for me.

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought the story line was good. It kept me reading and I read it in one sitting. There was just so many grammatical errors and misspelled words that it was frustrating at times.

[Delta · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was pretty disappointed in this book. I was hoping for a cozy mystery, but got more of a damsel in distress. Vickie is so clueless that she gets one person killed and nearly gets herself and another killed. Her determination to find her daughter's killer does not match her personality. The romance scenes are so awkward that I would have skipped them entirely if I hadn't been listening to the audio version. The writing was really clunky and created staccato sentences that broke up the flow of the book.

This is the second book I've heard narrated by Lee Ann Howlett. Once again, the pacing was slow and I had to turn it up to 3x speed. However, her characters are always distinct and varied and it is possibly the only good thing about this book.

Listen to the audiobook if you want to enjoy at all.

**I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.**