In his sixteenth Matthew Scudder novel, All the Flowers
Are Dying, New York Times bestselling author Lawrence
Block takes the award-winning series to a new level of
suspense and a new depth of characterization. Building on
the critical and commercial success of Hope to Die,
Block puts Scudder -- and the reader -- at the very edge of
the abyss.
Scudder, a complex character who has grown and aged in real
time, confronts the implacable challenge of mortality. But
he must also tackle a determined, relentless, and icily
inhuman adversary, perhaps the most unforgettable villain
Block has ever created.
A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three
hideous murders he swears, in the face of irrefutable
evidence, he did not commit. A psychologist who claims to
believe the convict spends hours with the man in his death
row cell, and ultimately watches in the gallery as the
lethal injection is administered. His work completed, the
psychologist heads back to New York City to attend to
unfinished business.
Meanwhile, Scudder has just agreed to investigate the
ostensibly suspicious online lover of an acquaintance. It
seems simple enough. At first. But when people start dying
and the victims are increasingly closer to home, it becomes
clear that a vicious killer is at work. And the final
targets may be Matt and Elaine Scudder.
The suspense is breathtaking, the outcome never certain. A
series that has garnered no end of awards -- the Edgar, the
Shamus, the Philip Marlowe, the MalteseFalcon -- has
ascended to a dizzying new height. With this novel,
Lawrence Block, who recently received the Diamond Dagger
for lifetime achievement from the Crime Writers Association
of the United Kingdom, is at the very top of his form.
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