Lawrence Block

Matt Scudder and Jack Ellery were at school together but never exactly friends. 20 years later, Scudder was a detective and Jack was standing the other side of the one-way glass in a police line-up. But when he ends up shot in the head, it's up to Scudder to find the killer.

Everybody's favourite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons. And, wouldn't you know it, there's a dead body, all stretched out on a Trent Barling carpet.

Matt Scudder's friend Mick reveals that he has had two of his workers killed and a warehouse full of bourbon stolen. Matt agrees to investigate but things become personal all too quickly when his mentor is killed and the NYPD warn him off the case.

A beautiful and deadly female serial killer is working her way across the country, tracking down every man she's ever slept with - the ones who got away - and ruthlessly murdering them.