Gulliver Dowd Mystery: Valentino Pier (Paperback)

from Grandy

An interesting quick read, we worth the time.

from aumbre

I would call this a novelette rather than a novel. It is 137 pages, double spaced, largish letters. I enjoyed it. It was relatively fast paced. The author did not constantly throw in what every single person was eating at every single meal, which seems to be the in thing to do these days. The her...

from kmajort

This was intriguing. I picked this up because I've only just discovered Reed Farrel Coleman. Our library had this (I'd not heard of Rapid Reads before either)and it was a decent little story. Gulliver Dowd is an interesting character, I enjoy PI/noir-ish stories. And it will be nice, having some ...

from readerbynight

For those readers who are unfamiliar with Raven Books' Rapid Reads, I highly recommend them for commuters, or coffee/lunch breaks. They are complete stories told in a condensed time. PI Gulliver Dowd is not your usual protaganist. I love this character--tough, gritty with heart, his stature is sh...

from WhitmelB

This book is from Raven Books, an imprint of Orca Book Publishers, under the rubric "Rapid Reads"and is classed as Adult Fiction. My copy is an advanced one from uncorrected proofs. The plot is fairly straight forward: the protagonist, PI Gulliver Dowd, kindly searches for a street urchin's dog. ...