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    All the Flowers Are Dying

    By Lawrence Block

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    New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block returns with another riveting thriller.

    Mystery Grandmaster Lawrence Block has enthralled readers for more than three decades with his novels featuring the lovable burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, Keller, and

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061807497
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    Lawrence Block

    Lawrence Block is one of the most widely recognized names in the mystery genre. He has been named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and is a four-time winner of the prestigious Edgar and Shamus Awards, as well as a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. He received the Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association—only the third American to be given this award. He is a prolific author, having written more than fifty books and numerous short stories, and is a devoted New Yorker and an enthusiastic global traveler.

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    • 4/5
      I've enjoyed watching Scudder grow old. These last two have been particularly gruesome with half the book showing the POV of a deranged but capable sociopath. Nasty stuff.
    • 4/5
      I haven't read Block in several years, found this book on the shelf and thought why not. It was pretty much exactly how I remembered Block's writings. I enjoyed it. Was a quick read, and had a good resolution.
    • 4/5
      "All The Flowers Are Dying" Is the 16th of the 17 Matthew Scudder novels. After it, Block took six long years before publishing another one. If you are just hopping on the Scudder train, you are late and you've missed much of the journey. Scudder Is a former NYPD officer who took it hard when a young child got killed in a shooting and lost the taste for the job. He also lost the taste for his first marriage and his suburban home and moved into a residential hotel and into the bars and dives. Eventually, he picked himself up and started taking it one day at a time with endless AA meetings. He would work off the books without paperwork, taking on impossible cases as favors for friends, chasing down the slimmest of leads. At its best, this series is dark and gritty and the characters are all too real.
      This volume takes an aging Scudder on a journey into several disparate mysteries that ends with a serial killer unleashing terror. It takes a real long while for this story to get moving, perhaps because too much time is spent inside the killer's head. There are threads of the story that don't immediately feel connected.Ultimately, the latter sixty percent of the story saves the day and runs ahead at breackneck speed. I still enjoy the Scudder series, and the characters I have come to know.

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    • 4/5
      Post 9/11 Matt Scudder story, where in his 60s, contently married to Elaine, all but retired and still sober, Scudder is as laid back and away from his old life as we've ever seen him.

      However, winding his way across the states, returning to New York is a mass murderer, whose attention to detail, patience and changing MO has at least one man on death row for the rape and murder of three children he didn't commit.

      Back in New York, and AB is killing time - and people - whilst planning a vengeance on Scudder for a slight either real or imagined. It's only in the last act that things begin to fall into place (perhaps a little too late to please some readers), and some lose threads from earlier stories, that I think I havent read, get tied up.
    • 3/5
      Yet another instance of me jumping into a series at some indeterminable point. I'll likely be putting the rest of this series on my list. This was enjoyable, though sometimes I got tired of reading in the killer's point of view.
    • 3/5
      Somewhat illogical at times---why stay in NY?---but an engrossing read.
    • 4/5
      One of the more challenging of the recent books in Block's Matt Scudder series, this one is tautly written, and bring back memories of an earlier character and the terror he inflicted.