Howie Green, EDGE, June 25, 2008

Buckley’s book offers a no-frills and no-fluff approach to exploring the Cape, and offers a fitting style and tone to the Cape’s low key and simple charm. The book is as much a color photo tour of the Cape as it is a written guide to wonderful days spent meandering around the nooks and crannies, and the small towns and hamlets that make up one of New England’s most beloved getaway destinations. It has quickly become a favorite coffee table book in my house, with every new guest thumbing through the pages and commenting on some new discovery or pointing out a nice photograph.”

Debra Lawless, The Cape Cod Chronicle, May 28, 2008

“[Tours of Cape Cod] includes six separate walking, driving and biking routes that lead the visitor from the Canal to Provincetown. The book fills a gap in the guides available for both curious tourists and locals who might want to fill in their knowledge of those monuments they pass every day but know nothing about. (How many know that Sears Park on Main Street is a Civil War memorial?)

This guide has a nice feature for the armchair traveler– its photographs. Mixing aerial photography, historic photos and color photographs by himself and his sister, Elisabeth Kelly, Buckley sketches each area for people who will never hop on their bicycles.”

Mark Zanger and Jessika Bella Mura, Boston Magazine, April, 2000

“The book reviewer’s daydream is to find something that other reviewers have missed. Our dream comes to life in The Bostoner, an absorbing suspense novel by multitalented Cape Codder Andrew Buckley. His materials — a courthouse bombing, maritime history, dissociative mental illness, underachieving slackers, and a splash of the Internet — would overwhelm a lesser book with clutter. Buckley seems to know just when to cut back to another murder and when to dilate upon expertise from his own previous lives as a Republican political consultant, legal investigator, and clam digger. He writes well about places and flirtations. The book could be scarier, but Buckley is aiming more for Michener than for Stephen King.”

Bruce Gellerman, Host of Here and Now, WBUR, March 2, 2000

“Cape Cod novelist Andrew Buckley’s debut psycho-historical thriller, The Bostoner, is a page-turner that makes you want to curl up on the couch and call in sick to work.”

Governor Paul Cellucci (Mass.), in a note to the author, described The Bostoner as “a truly captivating novel”. The Governor said Buckley’s “influence as a local author provides a distinct perspective on Boston and Cape Cod, as well as our maritime history.

Edward F. Maroney, Day & Night, January 26, 2000

“Buckley, who has worked as a shellfisherman on the Cape, has raked up an entire shoreline of facts and exposed them to the air of his fancy, creating a distinctive and disturbing atmosphere for this story… Part of Buckley’s book will appeal to those who savor shipboard adventure, and another will attract those who can appreciate a modern-anti-hero in search of a reason for living.”

Rhys Richards, foremost historian on Pacific whaling and the China trade:

“An intriguing book using shifts in the fifth dimension, time, to convey an attention-holding, full-blooded search for a killer who is similarly dislocated, living half within the ancestoral past and half-engaged in a deadly retribution now for variously percieved historical slights, wrongs and worse. Excellent reading.”

Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll, The Cape Cod Times, January 20 , 2000
Melanie Lauwers, The Cape Cod Times, December 12, 1999
Richard Spitzer, The Cape Cod Chronicle, December 16, 1999
Jeffrey Howell, The Cape Cod Chronicle, December 16, 1999