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Block, LawrenceBlock, Lawrence
Summary: Well past retirement age and feeling his years--but still staying sober one day at a time--Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2019
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Summary: "Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who's looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep blue eyes ... He falls-- and falls hard. Soon he's working with her, against his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd. 2015
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Summary: To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hard Case Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Block 2016Block, Lawrence
Summary: While robbing houses, apartments, and a museum, burglars Bernie Rhodenbarr and Carolyn Kaiser stumble over a dead body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Block 2015Block, Lawrence
Summary: Block's short stories are intelligent and respectful of the reader yet often take an unexpected turn. He plays fair. If you reread the story, you'll find that he left you little clues about the final destination but didn't connect the dots. Block is a master of the long-form mystery, and this collection proves he's got the short form locked down as well.Brings together seventeen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Block 2013Block, Lawrence
Summary: High-volume dope dealers make an easy mark for kidnappers. After all, what are they going to do, call the cops? But Kenan Khoury, heroin wholesaler to the five boroughs, haggled over the price, and his wife came back in pieces. The only person he can trust to avenge her is Matt Scudder, ex-cop, sober alcoholic, who wields his own brand of guerrilla justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014