A review by moreadsbooks
Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block

3.0

While I agree with Scudder that murder is worse than most other crimes & that Spinner, for all his faults, at least has never killed anyone & thus deserves better than being dumped in the river with a broken skull, let's be honest here - raping kids is pretty much as horrible & reprehensible as murder. This would've been a four-star book for me, but the fact that Scudder is willing to let Huysendahl off the hook basically because he says he's not into pedophilia all that much anymore does not sit well with me. It jars with my (admittedly limited) experience with what Scudder finds reasonable & with how he defines his morality. It reminds me a lot of why I was angry with Spero Lucas at the end of The Double. I'm not breaking up with Scudder or anything, but in the future, please let's have the pedophiles get more than just a slap on the wrist, shall we?