Dark Harbor

Occasionally, Hosp's clumsiness with key details--and the attempt to drop red herrings--are obvious and telegraph the reader that s/he is being manipulated. The inclusion of too-helpful friends and colleagues, along with Finn's own loose lips about crucial information, are the marks of an inexperien......more

This hardback is a disappointment. The cover is great though, it grabs the attention I had to skim most of what I read. I just could not get into the story at all. Nor could I get into the characters. It might be a brilliant plot, in the end, but life's too short to wade through a book that does not......more

This was a book that I was 'forced' to read through my monthly readers group and managed to get through it in two days whilst on holiday. Not a book I would have picked up through choice and starts, develops and ends as you would imagine for a book of this kind. Relatively straight forward plot whic......more

Entertaining, but predictable. Dark Harbor takes place in the gritty Boston of Dennis Lehane, with all the sense of depth and conspiracy of James Ellroy. Throw some Grisham into the equation and this is the novel that remains. In fact, there are too many elements that seem familiar; however, David H......more

I really enjoyed this first novel by David Hosp. There were some cliche types of things scattered among the really good writing but the bottom line is that I cared about many of the characters, and that's one of my key measures of whether I like a book or not. I believe David Hosp had a bright futur......more