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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
This is definitely a page turner with cliff-hangers throughout the book. I loved how it was set in the Sandhills. I sometimes struggled to keep the names straight and was often very frustrated with the protagonist and his alcoholism.
Pretty good, no frills crime story. Likeable characters, believable plot. Glad I read it, will be looking for more from the author.
Sean Doolittle writes intelligent thrillers with complex and very human protagonists. In [Rain Dogs], Tom Coleman, an ex-journalist mourning the death of both his daughter and his marriage, has inherited a small outdoor outfitters that includes a campground, rafts and kayaks, and an employee he doesn't really need. He's working hard to drink himself to death, but moving back within driving distance of his parents and an old girlfriend isn't making this easier. Nor is the explosion of an old cabin a few miles away that Tom suspects was meth-related, although the sheriff isn't handling it as such.
This was a fun, fast-paced book for a busy time of the year. It's not The Cleanup or Lake Country, but even at less than his best, Doolittle is worth reading.
This was a fun, fast-paced book for a busy time of the year. It's not The Cleanup or Lake Country, but even at less than his best, Doolittle is worth reading.
I liked this book. Fast paced, flawed characters, and a believable mystery. Can't ask for much more than that.
Rural noir about alcoholic ex-journalist from Chicago inheriting his grandfather's Nebraska campground and finding himself in the middle of meth-based drama. Structurally sound and very readable, but a bit anticlimactic (in the way realistic outcomes tend to be).