5.0 stars: I want to go visit the grave sites of his characters, because surely they're buried somewhere.

Remington I've read all of John Horst's novels and I'm a fan. Why? The guy writes good stories; well plotted and like the title says, with vivid imagery. But let's talk for a moment about John's forte. No one can read a Horst novel and criticize his characters. It's like he knows them personally, and not just on the printed page. It doesn't seem like he's created them, but that they actually lived! As I go through his books, I'm thinking, I want to go visit the grave sites of his characters, because surely they're buried somewhere.

Allingham is a man, not a place. When you're done with this book, you simply cannot imagine that he hadn't lived...or that he lives right now. The same is true of the entire cast. The gamblers and whores and politicians - some would say are pretty much the same thing - all come alive. Dan Chamberlain, Author
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