Time to Murder and Create
Book description
From the author behind the upcoming Hollywood all-star film A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - the second brilliant novel in the Matthew Scudder series
The Spinner is dead, bashed on the head and left to rot in a river. There are three suspects.
Henry Prager has paid enough for the…
Why read it?
1 author picked Time to Murder and Create as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It is hard to beat Lawrence Block’s writing. It often seems like a conversation you’d have, late at night, on a bar stool while sipping a bourbon served neat. Later in the Scudder series, it might seem more like a conversation you might have in a diner after an AA meeting but that’s hardly important.
What is important in this book is Scudder’s motive. He’s hired to look after something and then his client winds up dead. Scudder has no reason to keep pursuing the case—he’s not getting paid and his client won’t ever know the difference.
A promise is…
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