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The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind the locked door of a Brooklyn hellhole -- one apparently slain by his partner in crime who then took his own life.There's something drawing Matthew Scudder to this case that the cops have quickly and eagerly closed: a nagging suspicion that a third man is involved, a cold, diabolical puppet master who manipulates his two accomplices, then cuts their strings when he's done with them. No one but Scudder even suspects he exists. And his worst fear is that the guy is just getting started ...
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Hope to Die, Lawrence Block
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- Hope to Die
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lawrence Block
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 006103097X
- ISBN13
- 9780061030970
- Series
- Matthew Scudder
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Detective Fiction, Detective, New York, Noir, Private Detective
- First published
- 2001
- Original title
- Hope to die
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind the locked door of a Brooklyn hellhole -- one apparently slain by his partner in crime who then took his own life.There's something drawing Matthew Scudder to this case that the cops have quickly and eagerly closed: a nagging suspicion that a third man is involved, a cold, diabolical puppet master who manipulates his two accomplices, then cuts their strings when he's done with them. No one but Scudder even suspects he exists. And his worst fear is that the guy is just getting started ...