Redemption...A story of love between a father and son, but a sort of a clunker.Pelecanos’s fiction has for a while now been decidedly more upbeat, less bleak and, I dare say, a little too predictable. What's also getting on my nerves is his skewed syntax and more than a few strangely constructed sen...
The dust jacket of this book makes it seem that this is meant to be a feel good chick lit story. I didn't find the story to fulfill that until the ending. However, the storyline is well written and flows well. The character development does draw you in and I did feel their presence. Overall I fo...
Every time I pick up a George Pelecanos book, I have to convince myself to get it: his stories just don't seem to translate very well to compelling book-jacket blurbs. And every time, I am so glad I did.What Pelecanos does so beautifully is to portray the often-boring everyday routines of police of...
Baltimore noir. Lippman creates some memorably awful characters, and at least one, Heloise, who isn't awful at all. To my surprise, I really enjoyed the bits starring Tess Monaghan, even though I haven't read any of that series.Library copy.
Pelecanos's books are just my kind of reading - a mystery/police procedural that digs into the dark heart of human nature. Gus Ramone is a Washington DC homicide detective and former Internal Affairs investigator, 20 years on the job, married to a woman he still loves (and who still loves him), try...
This book expertly mixed lots of violence, drugs, music, movies, basketball, and other pop culture references from the 1970s in with both over the top characters and others that were extremely realistic.
This book was one hell of a lot of fun. It was like a well written Shaft movie or something. Set in 1972 and chronicling the story of Red "Fury" Jones, Frank "Hound Dog" Vaughn, Derek "About The Only Guy With No Nickname" Strange and a cast of excellent and believable characters. Vaughn and Strange ...
In 2006, Otto Penzler released the anthology Murder at the Foul Line, with stories contributed by a Who's Who of crime fiction, including Michael Malone's winningly deadpan "White Trash Noir," about domestic violence from a former NCAA star that seemingly drives his wife to murder. It was nominated ...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
