Month: July 2012

Book Review: David Goodis’ Nightfall

Book Review: David Goodis’ Nightfall

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Nightfallin Paperback edition on May 1, 2007 and has 220 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon A psychological suspense crime story set just after World War II. My Take Nightfall is an interesting blend of a staccato-like series of events all smoothed over, almost like the humidity in this story, heating up events, slowing things down, rolling over the rough edges. It’s just a blip of time for Vanning, for us, yet it encompasses eight months. Seen from today’s perspective, it’s an awkward use of psychology and profiling as Goodis pushes new frontiers in this thriller, slipping back and forth between his protagonist’s current life and events in the past, teasing us with just enough to begin to answer questions, to raise new ones. (Keep in mind that this story was first published in 1947.) It’s very well done even if it does drive me a bit nuts. I like how Goodis portrays Fraser as a cop who questions. He has a conscience and really wants the right bad guy in jail. He […]

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