Title: Lawrence Block's best effort
Review: I am a big Robert Parker fan. I think he writes the best dialog of any of todays active mystery writers, but LB's latest two novels seriously challenge Parker's preeminence. What truly amazes me is that LB somehow manages to convey to the reader that a character is lying or suspicious without presenting obvious contradictions. It is as if you are in the mind of the protagonist wondering "Why did he say that? Why would he want to know that? What else is going on here?" And LB does this with a brevity of words that should make Robert Parker jealous.
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