The hooker was young, pretty ¿ and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister¿s son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute¿s father wants it opened again¿that¿s where Matthew Scudder comes in. But this assignment carries the unmistakable stench of sleaze and perversion, luring Scudder into a sordid world of phony religion and murderous lust where children must die for their parents¿ most unspeakable sins.
The hooker was young, pretty ¿ and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister¿s son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute¿s father wants it opened again¿that¿s where Matthew Scudder comes in. But this assignment carries the unmistakable stench of sleaze and perversion, luring Scudder into a sordid world of phony religion and murderous lust where children must die for their parents¿ most unspeakable sins.
| BN ID: | 2940169916584 |
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| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 02/01/2011 |
| Series: | Matthew Scudder Series , #1 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
It’s an accepted fact—in fiction, anyway—that to be a brilliant detective, you must also be broken in some fundamental way. Perhaps that brokenness is why they’re able to see the clues the rest of us miss? What’s curious about these flawed, brilliant minds though, is how often their struggles are expressed through substance abuse and […]
