Matthew Scudder: In the Midst of Death Lib/E: A Matthew Scudder Novel (Audiobook)

from ccookie

First line: ~ October is about as good as the city gets~ This, the third book in the Matt Scudder series, moves us along in getting to know Scudder, a skilled, private investigator. If you have read my reviews of Book 1 and Book 2 The Sins of the Fathers and Time to Murder and Create you will kno...

from James_Patrick_Joyce

Lawrence Block's Scudder is a wonderful character. He and his world are entirely believable. In fact, these are stories that could be an account of a real guy's experiences, which is not usually the case in hardboiled detective fiction. This is a hard-drinking PI (without a license) who, later in...

from crazybatcow

Firstly, to be clear, I love Lawrence Block's writing style - he is crisp, to the point, sometimes a bit shocking (more so in later books), and non-moralistic. His characters are flawed men who remain calm, cool and collected under pressure... all without any whining or "woe is me" behind it all....

from miyurose

I liked this soooooooo much more than When the Sacred Ginmill Closes. I like how Block doesn't really narrate the story... he lets the characters tell you what's going on through the dialogue. There's no futzing around with pages of background story and set-up. The book does show its age at some ...

from col2910

Blurb.... NYPD cop Jerry Broadfield has turned on his own, collaborating in a Special Prosecutor's investigation into police corruption. It's a move that lands him in a jail cell on a murder rap and Scudder has his work cut out trying to free Broadfield. I've got a bit of a series jag on at the m...