After the First Death, Lawrence Block
After the First Death, Lawrence Block
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After the First Death

Author: Lawrence Block

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 5 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2011

Synopsis

It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why, before the police do.

About Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block is the recipient of a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a New York Times bestselling author. His prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four bestselling series and dozens of short stories and articles. He has won multiple Edgar, and Shamus awards, two Falcon Awards from the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan, the Nero and Philip Marlowe Awards, the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of America, and many others. Aside from being a mystery writer, he has also written a number of episodes for television, including two episodes of the ESPN series Tilt; he also cowrote the screenplay for the film My Blueberry Nights, starring Norah Jones. Block currently lives in New York City with his wife, Lynne.

About Peter Berkrot

Peter Berkrot, a forty-year veteran of stage and screen, has voiced over 450 audiobook titles, winning Earphones Awards, a 2012 Audie Award nomination, and a 2016 Audie Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mara

Alex Penn is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. He wakes up painfully hungover, coming out of a blackout drunk. When he finally gets out of bed, he discovers his clothes are all messed up, covered in blood it would seem and, just when he thinks things might have been looking up......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

Alex Penn has had better starts to the day. After waking up following a night of heavy drinking he can, at first, barely face the day. Once he’s persuaded his eyes to open it gets worse – his clothes are covered in blood and what’s that on the floor? It’s a naked and very dead woman. To rub salt in......more

Goodreads review by Ron

I've been going back and reading some of Block's backlist stuff that has been re-released, and this one is the best yet. As anther reviewer said, it's "perfect noir." It was published in 1969, when Block was 31 years old, not yet famous, but writing feverishly. You can feel the enthusiasm coming off......more

Goodreads review by Pamela

The one thing I have to keep remembering is that I'm a bit jaded when I read these books from the 1950s and 1960s. This one is from 1969 and while I always enjoy Lawrence Block's work, this seemed a bit flat to me. But that is what I should remember: this was written in the 1960s and for its time, t......more

Quotes

“Block’s fiction is tense and energetic. His stories unfold smoothly and elegantly, with plenty of detail and rich characterization.” Houston Chronicle

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