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Review title: Hackneyed Mess
Product review: This is an unbelievably bad Lawrence Block novel. I suspect he may have owed his publisher a book after signing a big book deal. Or maybe he wanted to try to write something commercial. But this one is a big dud.It's not that his writing is bad. He's still very good with dialogue and style. However, the plot is horrible. His serial killer characterization is cliched, distasteful, and not believable.Block makes a mistake by alternating the first person narrative of Matt Schudder with the serial killer. It just doesn't work.I've read a lot of Lawrence Block novels, and this is one of the worst.
