Grave Passage

By William Doonan
Glencannon Press, $22.95, 277 pages

In his book Grave Passage, author William Doonan gives us detective Henry Grave. During his many years on the planet Henry has acquired many traits, rude, obnoxious, obtrusive and funny. He uses all of these characteristics or rather Doonan uses these to make this a delightful and interesting read.

Henry is called upon to solve a murder on a cruise ship. He takes us for an adventure on the high seas intrigue that is soooooo entertaining.

What can I say–I started reading this book with the anticipation that it would be an average murder mystery, and boy was I wrong. This was so much more; it exceeded my expectations by far. I was bummed when I got to that last page because that meant the story was over.

Aside from the wonderful characters the book is very well written. Doonan’s writing style is one that really draws you into the story line. Doonan’s writing style also has a kind of easy eloquence to it. Not a lot of big intellectual words just that the words and sentences come together flowing so well in a way that you rarely see from a new author.

Reviewed by Marc Filippelli