Reddit reviews Galveston: A Novel

It's only one book, but Nic Pizzolato's Galveston is a really great crime novel. Pizzolato is also the writer/creater of HBO's True Detective, so if you enjoyed that, I think you'll really like his work. He's also written a book of short stories titled Between Here and the Yellow Sea

Here are a couple of gritty anti-hero picks:

https://www.amazon.com/Galveston-Novel-Nic-Pizzolatto/dp/1439166668/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535913824&sr=8-1&keywords=galveston

https://www.amazon.com/We-Run-Bad-John-Curry-ebook/dp/B07DDL22LZ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535913480&sr=8-1&keywords=we+run+bad

I second this, The Historic Pleasure Pier is fun for kids but no more historic than just standing on the Seawall.

You can't swing a dead cat without hitting something old or historic in Galveston. Most of which don't have websites, so until you go you just won't know. But when you get there you will have no shortage of things to do.

Read this, not super happy pregnancy material, but the best book about Galveston by far. This one is supposedly pretty good to, bit I haven't read it yet.