The Sins of the Fathers

Book 1: Matthew Scudder Series

by Lawrence Block

Genres: General Fiction; Mystery; Hard-Boiled

Synopsis

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.

Release date: July 1, 2000

Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Print pages: 304