當今歐美硬漢派偵探小說第一人

他的作品擁有最多的崇拜者、精英分子最愛收藏

獲愛倫•坡終身大師奬（The Edgar Awards for Grand Master）

獲鑽研匕首奬（The CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger）

兩獲馬耳他之鷹奬（The Maltese Falcon Award）

三獲愛倫•坡最佳小說奬（Edgar Awards for Best Novel）

四獲夏姆斯奬（Shamus Award）

In his sixteenth Matthew Scudder novel, All the Flowers Are Dying, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Lawrence Block takes the award-winning series to a new level of suspense and a new depth of characterization. Building on the critical and commercial success of Hope to Die, Block puts Scudder -- and the reader -- at the very edge of the abyss.</p>

Scudder, a complex character who has grown and aged in real time, confronts the implacable challenge of mortality. But he must also tackle a determined, relentless, and icily inhuman adversary, perhaps the most unforgettable villain Block has ever created.</p>

A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three hideous murders he swears, in the face of irrefutable evidence, he did not commit. A psychologist who claims to believe the convict spends hours with the man in his death row cell, and ultimately watches in the gallery as the lethal injection is administered. His work completed, the psychologist heads back to New York City to attend to unfinished business.</p>

Meanwhile, Scudder has just agreed to investigate the ostensibly suspicious online lover of an acquaintance. It seems simple enough. At first. But when people start dying and the victims are increasingly closer to home, it becomes clear that a vicious killer is at work. And the final targets may be Matt and Elaine Scudder.</p>

The suspense is breathtaking, the outcome never certain. A series that has garnered no end of awards -- the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe, the MalteseFalcon -- has ascended to a dizzying new height. With this novel, Lawrence Block, who recently received the Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement from the Crime Writers Association of the United Kingdom, is at the very top of his form.</p>