FICTION
Released: Sept. 20, 1991
"Block were treading water, albeit it dark and deep."
A wrenching and lurid Matt Scudder outing that pits the unlicensed p.i. against childkilling slime and climaxes in vigilante violence.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 21, 1994
"Unfortunately, the autumnal acceptance of mortality Scudder's been moving toward in his recent outings (The Devil Knows You're Dead, 1993, etc.) works against both mystery and suspense this time, though Scudder's many fans won't want to miss his ritual Nunc Dimittis."
FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 1997
"An ingenious whodunit that's also, in Block's recent manner, a provoking meditation on mortality—with a particularly strong supporting role for the City of New York, which turns in its finest performance since Ellery Queen's Cat of Many Tails."
FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2002
"But true-blue mystery fans would be crazy to pass it up—except for those determined to hold out for a future collection that tops a thousand pages."
Most authors who'd just published a 754-page Collected Mystery Stories two years ago would still be catching their breath.
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2003
"No drop-dead entrée, but something worth a nibble on almost every plate that passes."
The latest anthology from the Mystery Writers of America serves up 19 murderous new morsels.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2005
"Another powerful meditation on mortality in thriller's clothing. As Scudder puts it, "There's always another funeral to go to. They're like buses." "
For Matthew Scudder's 16th case, and his first in three years, Block borrows the time-honored pattern of the sleuth whose hearth and home are menaced by a killer from his past.
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