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A review by shirezu
The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block
5.0
When I started this I thought it would be a detective novel like many others I've read before. You know the story. Tough-as-nails PI gets case he has to solve. There's shady characters, dangerous broads, murder and mayhem.
This book is nothing like that. Yes there's a crime and a murder. But the crime is solved at the start of the book. Scudder is "hired" by the father of the murder victim for something very different. He hasn't spoken to his daughter in three years and wants to know how she ended up where she was. What kind of women had she become.
It made for a really different type of detective novel and I really liked it. It was well written and well thought out and I can't wait to try more of the Scudder books.
This book is nothing like that. Yes there's a crime and a murder. But the crime is solved at the start of the book. Scudder is "hired" by the father of the murder victim for something very different. He hasn't spoken to his daughter in three years and wants to know how she ended up where she was. What kind of women had she become.
It made for a really different type of detective novel and I really liked it. It was well written and well thought out and I can't wait to try more of the Scudder books.