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The journalists in novelist Al Hooper’s world are hardened and experienced, but their tough personas are leavened with strains of gentleness, understanding and, of course, love.

All traits are on deck with Hooper’s latest launch, “One Last Shot,” which is his third offering in a series of mystery novels centered on the adventures of longtime scribe Adam Cole.

In “One Last Shot” the action takes place in Yakima and its surrounding countryside where Cole, who long ago moved from a reporter’s beat to a columnist’s musings, finds himself teaming up with an old newspaper collea...