The Man Who Never Returned: A Suspense Novel - Gripping Mystery Thriller for Book Clubs & Crime Fiction Lovers

It's a great pleasure, all too rare, to read a book which is well written. This is one of those rare books. The sentences are well-structured and read smoothly -- effortlessly, which makes reading them so pleasurable. And the relationships between parts of a sentence, its clauses and phrases, are always clear: no dangling modifiers or ambiguous antecedents here.The story is interesting, and it's the story that attracted me to the book in the first place. The year is 1955, and Fintan Dunne, former police officer, OSS operative, and private detective, now retired, is hired to find out what happened to Judge Joseph Force Crater, who disappeared on the evening of August 6, 1930 -- 25 years earlier. Dunne and much of the plot are fiction. Crater and his disappearance are nonfiction. The 1950s setting is very well done, from clothing styles to manners to news to television. The pace is a bit slow, though not annoyingly so. I enjoyed the way the author tied everything together: very satisfying.