There is no accolade or major mystery award that has not already been bestowed upon Lawrence Block. and then destroyed..
Because this investigation is leading Scudder on a frightening grand tour of New York\'s sex-for-sale underworld -- where an innocent young life is simply a commodity to be bought and perverted ...
But this case is more depraved and more potentially devastating than anything he experienced while floundering in the urban depths.
During Scudder\'s hard drinking years, he left a piece of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. has been hired to prove that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife.
Now the ex-cop and unlicensed p.i.
A Dance At The Slaughterhouse In Matt Scudder\'s mind, money, power, and position elevate nobody above morality and the law.
This is the detective Novel as high art.
And perhaps the most respected of his myriad works are the Matthew Scudder books -- masterworks of suspenseful invention featuring a remarkable protagonist rich in conscience and character, with all the flaws that his humanity entails.
His acclaimed Crime novels are asintelligent, provocative, and emotionally complex as they are nerve-tighteningly intense.
There is no accolade or major mystery award that has not already been bestowed upon Lawrence Block
