Matt Scudder is a superbly drawn, sympathetic character, but there's another reason for reading Scudder novels: no one does New York better than Lawrence Block * THE TIMES *
One of the very best writers now working the beat ... Block has done something new and remarkable with the private eye novel * WASHINGTON POST *
If you know anything about this series, you'll know that it's the best there is, no argument ... Great stuff * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *
One of crime writing's most accomplished stylists * GUARDIAN *
Block is a flat-out entertainer * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
The Matt Scudder books are built on character, atmosphere, crackling dialogue and a great deal of brooding-the taste for them is addictive. * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
Enough pleasures and excitements to keep us smiling and breathing hard all the way through * CHICAGO TRIBUNE *
A tense plot, expressive writing and unusual and thoroughly real people with desperate problems. Not a book for the weak-hearted! * BOOKPAGE *
The next time that friends come to town expecting a personal tour of the real New York City, here's what to hand them: a subway map, a fistful of tokens, and Lawrence Block's big bruiser of a crime novel, A Walk Among the Tombstones * NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS *
Outstanding...excellent...a smoothly paced,deftly plotted,brightly phrased study of perversity * CHICAGO TRIBUNE *
Lawrence Block is a master ... the Matthew Scudder novels are among the finest detective books penned in this century -- Jonathan Kellerman
One of the best ever. Block was, and remains, a pioneer -- Harlan Coben
