Out on the Cutting Edge, Lawrence Block
Out on the Cutting Edge, Lawrence Block
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Out on the Cutting Edge
A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel

Author: Lawrence Block

Narrator: Dan Butler

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/15/2014


Synopsis

This is a city that seduces dreamersthen eats their dreams. Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Scudder is the best, and now the ex-cop turned private investigator is scouring the hell called Hells Kitchen looking for anything that might resemble a lead. And in this neighborhood of the lost, hes finding loveand deathin the worst possible places.

About Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block is an award-winning, internationally renowned bestselling author. His prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four bestselling series as well as dozens of short stories, articles, and books on writing. Block lives in New York City with his wife, Lynne.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on December 30, 2019

This is a typical Matt Scudder mystery: slow as molasses, slim on plot, very grim—and totally absorbing. Scudder—the unlicensed private detective who “does favors” for money—has two cases to solve: 1) the disappearance of young actress/waitress Paula Hoeldtke from Muncie Indiana, and 2) the mystery o......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on June 25, 2021

And so begins the second phase of Matt Scudder. Block had written about Matt trying to get sober in the mid-‘80s with 8 Million Ways to Die, and then he had done a flashback novel when Matt was still boozing during the ‘70s in When the Sacred Ginmill Closes so there’s been a pretty substantial gap in......more

Goodreads review by James on August 27, 2014

Matthew Scudder is now three years sober, but he's still living in his tiny Hell's Kitchen hotel room and prowling the increasingly mean streets of New York as an unlicensed P.I. Crime is rising; the city seems dirtier than ever, and the number of homeless and other street people seems to be rising......more

Goodreads review by Dave on May 19, 2021

On the Cutting Edge is Lawrence Black’s seventh crime novel focused on Matthew Scudder, an ex-cop and (finally) sober alcoholic trying with great difficulty to keep some balance in his life. As a detective, he is always on the “cutting edge” of death. He’s killed and people have tried to kill him. A......more

Goodreads review by Mara on July 26, 2016

Potentially Unnecessary Preamble I have this thing, a compulsion perhaps, wherein I cannot notfinish a book (yes, that double negative needed to happen). I always worry that the ending will be so amazing as to have made any pain involved in the process worth it (that, and I've managed to convinc......more