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Title details for All the Flowers Are Dying by Lawrence Block - Available

All the Flowers Are Dying

#16 in series

by Lawrence Block
Alan Sklar
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In this sixteenth book-length adventure, Matthew Scudder, Block's acclaimed unlicensed private investigator, pursues his most personal case to date. Scudder has just agreed to investigate the ostensibly suspicious online lover of an acquaintance. It seems simple enough. At first. But when people start dying and the victims are increasingly close to home, it becomes clear that a vicious killer is at work. And the final targets may be Matt and Elaine Scudder. All the Flowers Are Dying will leave the hordes of Scudder fans clamoring for more.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Matthew Scudder

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    August 2, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792744276
      • File size: 284975 KB
      • Duration: 09:53:41

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      With a title taken from the ballad "Danny Boy," Lawrence Block's sixteenth novel to feature Matthew Scudder is his darkest in years. When a woman he meets at an AA meeting asks him to check the background of her new boyfriend, Scudder finds his path crossed with that of a brilliant serial killer who changes his methods at will and leaves virtually no trace of his identity. Alan Sklar reads the novel with his customary professional precision. It isn't only his baritone vibrato that helps maintain Block's dark mood, but the way in which timing, pacing, and the subtlest vocal nuances define the characters as he narrates Scudder's close and unforgettable brush with evil. S.E.S. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 14, 2005
      Matt Scudder, bestseller Block's extraordinary private detective, has been around for almost 30 years, and if his aging has been neither gentle nor graceful, it's certainly been eventful. In his stellar 16th outing (after 2001's Hope to Die
      ), the 60-something Scudder proves to be as tough and resilient as ever when faced with the slickest, sickest killer to ever test his mettle. Fans won't be surprised that the killer is linked to the unresolved murders of Hope to Die
      or that Elaine and Scudder may become the fiend's target. The narrative smoothly shifts between Scudder's point-of-view and the thoughts and actions of the killer, whose ingenuity, daring and pure viciousness sear the pages. Aware of the danger but without a clue to the person behind the threat, Scudder and Elaine are forced into a protective siege while Scudder uses all his skills to probe the mystery. Series fans will welcome the familiar characters and places that have become such an important part of Scudder's universe: TJ, Mick Ballou, Grogan's Bar, the AA meeting spots. Add them together with some brilliant twists and one gets a thrilling, satisfying concoction brewed by a master storyteller in top form. Agent, Daniel Baror at Baror International. (Mar. 1)

      FYI:
      MWA Grandmaster Block has won numerous Edgar and Shamus awards and recently began his first full-time job in 40 years as an executive story consultant on the ESPN series
      Tilt!, which debuted in January.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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