Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who’s looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep blue eyes…
He falls – and falls hard. Soon he’s working with her, against his employer, plotting a devious plan that could get her free from her husband and put millions in her bank account. But can they do it without landing in jail? And once he’s kindled his taste for killing...will he be able to stop at one?
Review
"The premise is classic pulp, so it may surprise you The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes is set in the present day of Web searches and burner phones. There's no one better than Block--steeped in genre tradition, yet as in touch with today as can be--to show the two can work together." -Gerald So, My Life Called So
"A foray into the psyche of sex-obsessed men written with Block's trademark pinpoint psychological accuracy and lively dialogue. Noir enthusiasts and people needing a master class on how to write sex scenes are going to love this novel. We live in oddly puritanical times, and a book like THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES is going make things interesting this fall." -Benoit Lelievre, Dead End Follies
"MWA Grand Master Block adds a generous dollop of eroticism to this ingeniously plotted study in criminality and corruption. Noir fans will be pleased that the book contains not a single likable character." -Publishers Weekly "A gleeful exercise in over the top noir. Aggressively politically incorrect but seriously addictive. Torrid encounters, treachery, twists piled upon each other and a particularly cynical view of the world and its denizens make this a guilty pleasure if you leave any moral judgment at home. Sin and crime have never been so attractive." -Maxim Jakubowski
"Block's writing is as crisp as ever and there's a lot of sex in this book. Not only does The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes read like a sexualized modernization of Double Indemnity or The Postman Always Rings Twice, the character of Doak adds some additional wrinkles I won't give away here. As more is revealed of Doak's true nature, you have to wonder if anyone will make it out alive." -Daniel Schwent, Dangerous Dan's Book Blog
"He's one of the greatest living crime writers, a bearded New Yorker with the head of an old faun. Lawrence Block is the creator of Matt Scudder....Lately, the novelist returned to his roots: pulp fiction. The result is The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes, a spicy, cynical, manipulative, bleak crime novel, full of ribald eroticism, and we don't know yet if there will be a French translation. An American TV producer is going to make a show out of it. Let's hope TV will succeed where cinema has failed." -Sandra Benedetti, L'Express
About the Author
LAWRENCE BLOCK is one of the most acclaimed and highly decorated living mystery writers, having received multiple Edgar, Shamus Awards and Maltese Falcon Awards, as well as lifetime achievement awards in the U.S., UK, and France (including being named a "Grand Master" by the Mystery Writers of America, the organization's highest honor).
Description:
Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who’s looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep blue eyes…
He falls – and falls hard. Soon he’s working with her, against his employer, plotting a devious plan that could get her free from her husband and put millions in her bank account. But can they do it without landing in jail? And once he’s kindled his taste for killing...will he be able to stop at one?
Review
"The premise is classic pulp, so it may surprise you The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes is set in the present day of Web searches and burner phones. There's no one better than Block--steeped in genre tradition, yet as in touch with today as can be--to show the two can work together." -Gerald So, My Life Called So
"A foray into the psyche of sex-obsessed men written with Block's trademark pinpoint psychological accuracy and lively dialogue. Noir enthusiasts and people needing a master class on how to write sex scenes are going to love this novel. We live in oddly puritanical times, and a book like THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES is going make things interesting this fall." -Benoit Lelievre, Dead End Follies
"MWA Grand Master Block adds a generous dollop of eroticism to this ingeniously plotted study in criminality and corruption. Noir fans will be pleased that the book contains not a single likable character." -Publishers Weekly
"A gleeful exercise in over the top noir. Aggressively politically incorrect but seriously addictive. Torrid encounters, treachery, twists piled upon each other and a particularly cynical view of the world and its denizens make this a guilty pleasure if you leave any moral judgment at home. Sin and crime have never been so attractive." -Maxim Jakubowski
"Block's writing is as crisp as ever and there's a lot of sex in this book. Not only does The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes read like a sexualized modernization of Double Indemnity or The Postman Always Rings Twice, the character of Doak adds some additional wrinkles I won't give away here. As more is revealed of Doak's true nature, you have to wonder if anyone will make it out alive." -Daniel Schwent, Dangerous Dan's Book Blog
"He's one of the greatest living crime writers, a bearded New Yorker with the head of an old faun. Lawrence Block is the creator of Matt Scudder....Lately, the novelist returned to his roots: pulp fiction. The result is The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes, a spicy, cynical, manipulative, bleak crime novel, full of ribald eroticism, and we don't know yet if there will be a French translation. An American TV producer is going to make a show out of it. Let's hope TV will succeed where cinema has failed." -Sandra Benedetti, L'Express
About the Author
LAWRENCE BLOCK is one of the most acclaimed and highly decorated living mystery writers, having received multiple Edgar, Shamus Awards and Maltese Falcon Awards, as well as lifetime achievement awards in the U.S., UK, and France (including being named a "Grand Master" by the Mystery Writers of America, the organization's highest honor).