White Rabbit: A Mystery

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Summary: Top writing, thrilling mystery
Review: Daniel provides a good mystery, a thrilling story, and a walk back through the "Summer of Love," in White Rabbit, a page-turner that is also of the highest literary quality. Not to be missed...not only for those former flower children who lived through Haight-Ashbury, not only for Boomers who wished they had, but for all readers who enjoy a good scare, a good mystery, and a wonderfully-written book--something rarely seen in this genre. The 60s setting is amazing. You can almost smell the pot...you can certainly smell the flowers...and the blood.

Rating:
Summary: Top writing, thrilling mystery
Review: Daniel provides a good mystery, a thrilling story, and a walk back through the "Summer of Love," in White Rabbit, a page-turner that is also of the highest literary quality. Not to be missed...not only for those former flower children who lived through Haight-Ashbury, not only for Boomers who wished they had, but for all readers who enjoy a good scare, a good mystery, and a wonderfully-written book--something rarely seen in this genre. The 60s setting is amazing. You can almost smell the pot...you can certainly smell the flowers...and the blood.

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Summary: White Rabbit, A Mystery
Review: In 1967 everybody coming to San Francisco seems to wear flowers in their hair as the city gears up to what seems as a half million strong during the summer of love. However, someone does not want somebody to love, killing three hippies and mutilating their smiling faces in the Haight district. Well-respected SFPD detective John Sparrow works the investigation that has made the usually cool city streets hotter than a matchstick.

At a news conference, underground newspaper The Rag reporter Amy Cole introduces herself to John, but neither trusts the other. She sees him as a kind of a drag pig unable to accept an alternate lifestyle. He believes she is just another associate of the drugged crazies. Though unhappy together, they need to make up their mind and come together to insure a murderer pays the pied piper. Demanding his respect, she guides him through doors closed by those residents, who all they need is love, a joint, and no interaction with oinkers claiming to have built this city. Soon both become believers that teaming up may enable them to stop, stop, stop a killer.

If this novel were just a nostalgic piece the Woodstock Generation would still want to read it. However, instead David Daniel scribes a pleasant police procedural that provides the audience with a reflective look back at the love summer in the City on the Bay. The investigation is cleverly designed so that cross-generation readers will gain plenty of pleasure from this treasure that lets the sun shine on the Age of Aquarius.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Dave Daniel Mixes the '60s with Suspense
Review: In a wonderfully written book, David Daniel has taken the reader back to 1967 Haight-Ashbury and the Summer of Love. In a wild trip you will experience music,love, drugs, murder and mayhem.

There is a killer loose and the victims are as nameless and lost as he/she is. Partner a down on his luck San Francisco inspector with a young, attractive writer for an underground newspaper and you have an odd couple hoping to catch an elusive prey before The Summer of Love becomes The Summer of Blood.

I recommend this book for all of you who were there in the 60s' and all of you who wish that you were.

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Summary: Groovy!
Review: This book is a well written mystery about a San Francisco police officer tracking down a serial killer while simultaneously keeping a crazed colleague from head bashing hippies, because, yes, it is set during the *summer of love,* 1967. It is almost painful for me to read -- all those ideals that seemed so real at the time, and so many of them didn't work out the way we thought they would. But, hey! It is still a great story! Enjoy!

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Summary: White Rabbit, A Mystery
Review: White Rabbit is first and foremost a good story well told. Set against the backdrop of San Fransico and the Summer of Love, Daniel captures a slice of Americana, without sentimentalizing it, and portrays the charcters through defly drawn scenes as the characters respond to the times and to each other carrying the story along.
The story glides as the main characters find and keep their humanity through the maze of powerful music, new ideals truly and twistedly expressed, social institutions that both grind down and allow for freedom, and the crazy, dog-legged trail of one person whose childhood and Vietnam experiences can't be left behind.
It's a good read. Daniel trusts both the story and his chararcters enough to let them speak for themselves; this is a great gift and let's the story pull the reader into it.
If you like a book you can't put down, pick White Rabbit up (I even took it to work and read it on breaks!) Kudos to Daniel for a story well told.