Lawrence Block Archives - John Dwaine McKenna

Mysterious Book Report No. 102 – Hit Me

By admin|2016-04-12T07:56:57+00:00April 12th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Hit Me by Lawrence Block Mulholland Books-Little Brown, $26.99, 337 pages, ISBN 978-0-316-12735-6 The summer reading season is getting underway and this weeks book selection was chosen because it’s ideal for reading in short intervals as time allows. It consists of three novellas, all linked together around two central themes: the first being extraordinary and the second arcane. It’s great crime fiction that transports the reader to another time

Mysterious Book Report No. 24 – A Drop of the Hard Stuff

By admin|2016-01-04T07:51:12+00:00January 4th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block Mulholland Books, $25.99, 319 pages, ISBN 978-0-316-17804-4 This week’s MBR is A Drop of the Hard Stuff, by Lawrence Block, a distinguished author of more than fifty novels. He’s as easy and comfortable to read as a favorite old flannel shirt is to wear beside a warm fire on a nippy fall night. The novel begins with two old friends,