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 […]
The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.
The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder Series #1)
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ISBN-13: | 9780061797583 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Publication date: | 10/13/2009 |
Series: | Matthew Scudder Series , #1 |
Sold by: | HARPERCOLLINS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 304 |
Sales rank: | 24,585 |
File size: | 571 KB |
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