Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
All the Flowers Are Dying - cover

All the Flowers Are Dying

Lawrence Block

Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

The New York Times–bestselling author “ratchets up the suspense with breathtaking results as only a skilled, inventive and talented writer can do” (Orlando Sentinel). 
 
A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three horrific murders he must have committed but swears he didn’t . . . 
 
An aging investigator in New York City has seen too much and lost too much—and is ready to leave the darkness behind . . . 
 
But a nightmare is coming home—because a brilliant, savage, patient monster has unfinished business in the big city . . . and a hunger that can be satisfied only by fear and the slow, agonizing death of Matthew Scudder and the woman he loves. 
 
“Block, who couldn’t write a dull scene even if he tried to, is in fine form here.” —Los Angeles Times 
 
“Block, as always, takes his readers on a wildly entertaining ride.” —The Buffalo News 
 
“A thrilling, satisfying concoction brewed by a master storyteller in top form.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) 
 
“An unforgettable tale of violence, death and deceit.” —Lansing State Journal 
 
“A page-turning work of art.” —Toronto Sun
Available since: 10/13/2009.
Print length: 384 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • The Fatal Scroll - A Herculaneum Mystery - cover

    The Fatal Scroll - A Herculaneum...

    Eric Siblin

    • 0
    • 2
    • 0
    Marcus Sinclair is a history teacher whose life is stuck in neutral when he inherits a papyrus scroll from his antiquarian uncle. The mysterious scroll might contain a lost masterpiece from ancient Rome or perhaps an ancient recipe for personal tranquility, but it’s unreadable unless Marcus can figure out a way to unroll the scroll without destroying it. His quest takes him to Naples, where he befriends a Google software engineer days before the man is found dead. Marcus is interviewed by an investigative journalist, Kristi Grainger, and they find themselves on parallel paths leading to a Neapolitan trafficker in antiquities, a tech mogul obsessed with the distant past, and a clutch of academics searching for the lost library of Herculaneum. In a seaside city that is by turns lush and lethal, Marcus must confront the unraveling of more than a scroll.
    		 
    This novel is inspired by a real place — the Villa dei Papri, the only library from antiquity to have survived — and coincides with the Vesuvius Challenge, a real-life international competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls.
    Show book
  • The Dacre Dilemma - The enthralling English cosy crime series - cover

    The Dacre Dilemma - The...

    Rebecca Tope

    • 0
    • 1
    • 0
    Simmy Brown is four months pregnant, working partly from home, partly from her Windermere florist shop and very much feeling her age when her husband, Christopher, asks her to deliver flowers to Eleanor Padgett. As an
    
    expert in antique textiles, Eleanor has been a considerable help to him at his auction house.
    
    
    The visit out to the charming Lake District village of Dacre is squeezed into Simmy's endless to-do list. It is a moment of calm to appreciate the approach of spring and the interesting churchyard, but this is shattered
    
    when she discovers the body of a young man among the graves. It is not long before Simmy once again finds herself in a complex and puzzling investigation, led by DI Moxon and aided by her friends Ben and Bonnie.
    Show book
  • Angelhunting - A Seamus Caron Mystery - cover

    Angelhunting - A Seamus Caron...

    Ji Hong Sayo

    • 0
    • 1
    • 0
    Having tried his hand at medicine, pickpocketing, and good old-fashioned thuggery, Seamus Caron has finally settled into life as a private detective, hunting down lost money and wandering husbands. It’s not glamorous work, but it pays the bills and provides a steady supply of fistfights for entertainment. The job also keeps him close to his best friend, Sandra Blair, a homicide detective for the Toronto Police. But when she calls in a favor on a murder case, Seamus realizes that the victim is a notorious mob lawyer, putting an end to what little stability and safety he’d managed to scrape together.
    		 
    Seamus must find the killer before the murder sparks an all-out gang war. Luckily, he’s got help — a confidence man turned barman, the finest cook in Little Chinatown, and Maxwell Moscovitz, his new secretary. She has the mental sharpness and moral flexibility for the job, but she also has a few secrets of her own.
    		 
    Seamus begins to suspect a connection between the murder and a new drug on the street known as Platinum, which promises obscene profits for its suppliers, euphoria for its users, and a shockingly high death rate. As he investigates suspicious overdoses, Seamus can’t help hearing echoes of his past and the tragedy he’s spent 20 years trying to forget. Caught between the police, the mob, and an anonymous killer, Seamus will need to face his demons, or he just might lose it all.
    Show book