The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Mike Dennis

IN THE DEPTHS OF HER BLUE EYES, HE GLIMPSED—MURDER

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?

©2015 Lawrence Block (P)2015 Recorded Books

Not for everyone

Lawrence Block usually has some fun repartee between characters which can entertain you through a slow plot. In this book that repartee is crude, and the story primarily consists of episodes of raunchy sex.

Not my favorite

Not my favorite Block story. I’ve been reading Block since forever and I never missed a new one’s release.

This one caught me quite off guard. Some of the scenes seemed gratuitously more raunchy than necessary but maybe the excess raunchy is his point? I thought a lot of that could have been edited out without losing the storyline/character development and including so much added little to the overall story, in my opinion. Wondering if the author (who felt like my old freind before) has shifted from his familiar characters of years past and is cutting a new trail here using a more raunchy than normal story to blaze the trail of a new series?? Or is this a one off?
Whatever his purpose , the characters are darker than I recall in past stories, which, let’s face it, weren’t exactly perfect Boy Scouts always behaving gallantly.
Still, the overall story is recognizable as his writing and not uninteresting. As another wrote, welcome back Mr Block. I hope we’ll hear more and better from you going forward. Truly,

Overwhelmed by smut

The entire plot and theme were obscured by the relentless smutty monologues of the main character. No entertaining or enjoyable like Block's stories usually are.

Lawrence Block is back, but...

I was going cold turkey with the absence of new books from the Master. So when the new one came out it did not hesitate a second and went for it. This is not -and by far- the best Block book; the great Matt Scudder's stories play in a very different league. However it’s sassy, it’s dirty, it’s mean and pulp like his very early books used to be..and most of all, it's a Lawrence Block !
Welcome back , Master !

Very different

Huge fan of Lawrence Block especially the Bernie Rhodenbarr series. This was more of a smut diary. Be prepared for the raunchy unnecessary sex scenes.