NEW HOPE FOR THE DEAD [Paperback]

Charles Willeford (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (1988)
• ASIN: B0018WLI0K
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,207,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent Character Study, October 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: New Hope For the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)

So often, you come across a series of books of a certain detective or private investigator and there is no character growth. Well, this book brings about a refreshing change in that procedure. In fact, Willeford gives us a whole novel's worth of character study and you wish it would never end. Hoke Moseley is arguably the most realistic, honest, and likable police detective created in this genre. If you are looking for fluff, do not read this. If you are looking for an intelligent, creative, and interesting read, this is the book for you.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hoke gets a house. . ., October 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: New Hope For the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)

In this second book of the Hoke Moseley series, our loser-pants police detective must deal with various sleazoids while figuring out how to raise his two daughters who have been sent back to him because his ex-wife's pro-ball-player novio finds them distracting during his spring training. Sound Familiar? It's not. Funny and amoral, Hoke's counseling sessions with his daughters are not for the timid or politically correct. Lacking the outrageous antagonists of MIAMI BLUES or SIDESWIPE, this is not the strongest book of the series, but it is an essential set-up for the next tale. Buy it.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great characterizations overshadow the thin storyline..., August 3, 2003

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lazza (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Hope for the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)

'New Hope for the Dead' is one of Charles Willeford's comic-mystery novels starring Hoke Moseley, a crusty yet lovable member of the Miami police force. It is hard to not enjoy the trials and tribulations of Moseley: work partner getting pregnant, his own love life on the skids, two teenaged daughters arriving at his doorstep, etc. Always interesting; I never felt like I was reading the script to a soap opera. However Willeford forgot to include a strong crime element. Yes, there is a dead junkie and a sexy step-mom. But the story itself compares badly to 'Miami Blues', a much superior Hoke Moseley novel. And compared to Willeford's early masterpiece 'The Woman Chaser' one senses the Hoke Moseley series was not the best way for Willeford to end his career.

Bottom line: more of enjoyable literary junk food rather than quality stuff. Recommended for Willeford fans only.