Reviews for Dooley's Back

The average rating for Dooley's Back based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-05-06 00:00:00 Rosalyn Watson At Left Coast Crime, I did what I always do when surrounded by good writers: I asked who I should be reading, and I kept being told Sam Reaves. Boy, were they right. Reaves is just effortlessly good in this story of a semi-disgraced cop who returns to Chicago after years as a semi-fugitive in Mexico, to face up to the past but who instead gets sidetracked into the present. It Ross Thomas's characters are persuasively cynical, Reaves' are persuasively tough -- good and bad alike. This is sort of a model contemporary noir but with a more hopeful ending than most noir, and I can't for the life of me figure out why Sam Reaves isn't a best-seller.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-09-02 00:00:00 Matthew Jones I was excited to read this follow-on to Homicide-69. Unfortunately, this novel didn't pack the punch of H69. It was slow going. The plot held together all right, the last few concluding pages were rewarding in their own way...but the book dragged for me. Perhaps it was because H69 was so good. Perhaps it's just not that good of a detective novel. If I could describe it as "foggy", some of you might get what I mean. The close environment of a detective novel needs contrast and definition. I didn't see it or feel it.