It was a long time since I read a Lawrence Block book. The only book that I read by him was A Walk Along The Tombstones, a book that I enjoyed reading. I also enjoyed seeing the movie 8 Million Ways To Die.
After finishing The Sins of the Fathers, his first book, I guess the feeling I had that was that it lacked suspense. I think part of it was the premise. Scudder is hired by the father to look not into the death of her daughter because that was an open and shut case. Instead, the father wanted to know more about his daughter and why this happened.
Scudder goes through the motions of questioning everyone and at one point, he seems to have the answers that the father wanted. Of course, things aren’t as they seem and I have to say that I was surprised with what happened next and I have to say that the ending was a big surprise to me. If there was a little more suspense during the questioning of the various people and suspects, then I would have enjoyed this book more. As it is, I give it three stars because of a good ending which will make me continue to read other books by Lawrence Block.
Rick Holman
After finishing The Sins of the Fathers, his first book, I guess the feeling I had that was that it lacked suspense. I think part of it was the premise. Scudder is hired by the father to look not into the death of her daughter because that was an open and shut case. Instead, the father wanted to know more about his daughter and why this happened.
Scudder goes through the motions of questioning everyone and at one point, he seems to have the answers that the father wanted. Of course, things aren’t as they seem and I have to say that I was surprised with what happened next and I have to say that the ending was a big surprise to me. If there was a little more suspense during the questioning of the various people and suspects, then I would have enjoyed this book more. As it is, I give it three stars because of a good ending which will make me continue to read other books by Lawrence Block.
Rick Holman