It should come as no surprise that I like to read crime fiction. I watch enough of those movies to make me liking the books to be perfectly predictable.
I just recently started getting into Lawrence Block. He’s probably most famous for a series of novels starring Matthew Scudder a down-on-his-luck former New York police turned sort-of private eye. I’ve read a couple of those books and am currently reading a Block novel that doesn’t involve Scudder. I like his style very much.
I’ve never read anything by Cornell Woolrich, though I should probably rectify that, since he wrote the stories to some great movies including Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, and Mississippi Mermaid.
Into the Night was found in Woolrich’s desk after he died, unfinished. Lawrence Block was hired to finish it. The end result is pretty good. You can read my full review of it here.
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