Lawrence Block

Make sure you know what you are getting into if you read this book. I would say over half of it was previously printed in other Block short story collections. It was still a good book but it is huge and if you have desire to reread previous stories, then you can skip this book.

The new stuff was good but I am not sure it alone was worth have to deal with this giant book. If you want all of your Block in one spot, then this is the book for you. I gave it 3 stars only because of the amount of reprints. The stories are great, I had just read a lot of them already.… (mere)

This book should have been released on the Hard-On Case Crime label, not the one that it is! The author basically writes the smuttiest sex scenes he can, while slightly mentioning that a woman wants to hire someone to kill her husband. Sex scene after sex scene is occasionally interrupted by the crime subplot. And the sex scenes are super explicit! I mean, Penthouse Forum explicit! The author should have just gone for it in total, and skipped the murder for hire thing. As dumb as the main character is, he gets to have a lot of sex with many different women in many different ways! In super detail!
So, it's a pretty steamy sex book, but a crime novel, it is not.

“I knew better, but…”
“So many sad stories start with those four words.”

Man, ain’t that the truth!… (mere)