ALIVE IN NECROPOLIS, by Doug Dorst

(originally posted on June 26, 2008)

My first thought upon finishing it is that Dorst had written a book akin to what Richard Price might have concocted had he dabbled in the supernatural. That's because Dorst's prose is highly realistic and the characters, especially young policeman Matt Mercer, ring very young and very true, but there's the added sense of unreality in the form of the cemetery town of Colma. Whatever way to classify this, the bottom line is Dorst has serious talent that I'm looking forward to seeing develop further.