Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block's two ground-breaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color, and it's on glorious...

DID HE WANT HER BADLY ENOUGH... TO KILL FOR HER? As a con man, Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off gullible women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard - and found himself holding a stolen stash of raw heroin. Now Joe's got...

Matthew Scudder is finally on the straight and narrow when he runs into "High-Low" Jack Ellery, a childhood friend from the Bronx. In Scudder, Jack sees the moral man he might have become. In Jack, Scudder sees the hard-won sobriety he...

To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean tocommit, 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...

The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer?a minister's son?hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private...

A brilliant, fast-paced thriller from 'a flat out entertainer' Daily TelegraphAlso a major film starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and Ruth Wilson now available on Netflix von Block, Lawrence

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...

Ein Schluck vom harten Stoff

A philosophical yet practical gentleman, Bernie Rhodenbarr possesses many admirable qualities: charm, intelligence, sparkling wit, and unwavering loyalty. Of course, he also has this special talent and a taste for life's finer things. So...

"Sins of the Fathers", "In the Midst of Death" und "Time to Murder and Create" sind die ersten drei Bände der Matt-Scudder-Mysteries-Serie von Lawrence Block. 1. **Sins of the Fathers**: Der ehemalige Polizist und jetzige Privatdetektiv...

"Hit Me" ist der fünfte Band in Lawrence Blocks John Keller-Reihe. In diesem Thriller folgt die Handlung dem Protagonisten John Keller, einem ehemaligen Auftragskiller, der sich zur Ruhe gesetzt hat und ein ruhiges Leben führt. Er lebt...

Even before Lawrence Block could rest on his laurels from In Sunlight or In Shadow, a question arose. What would he do for an encore? Any number of artists have produced evocative work, paintings that could trigger a literary response....