Not Comin' Home to You

a fast moving story of murder and escape and pursuit with our 24 year old killer picking up a disillusioned 15 year schoolgirl and going on the run across 7 or 8 states. A violent story but written very well by Block, as usual......more

Lawrence Block wrote this as Paul Kavanagh. It was loosely based or maybe themed would be the better word on the Starkweather murder spree which occurred in 1958. I say themed rather than based because Block did not try to recreate the facts or replicate the characters, but instead wrote a story bas......more

3.5, actually. It's the early 1970's and Jimmie John, 22 years old and already well down that road that leads nowhere, is drifting across the country, hitching rides and popping speed. In Texas he gets a ride in a fine new car with all the bells and whistles. Jimmie John impulsively decides that he m......more

Having read nearly all of Lawrence Block's major series (Keller, Rhodenbarr, Scudder), and his more recent one-offs and collections (Resume Speed, The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes), I've been delving deeper into his back catalog. Some of these excursions have paid off excitingly: Getting Off, about......more