一个低调的“三十一俱乐部”是一切问题的开始。从一开始提到这个俱乐部，便吸引着人往下看：“这个俱乐部的结构很简单。三十一个人格高尚的男子宣誓，每年五月的第一个星期四要相聚一堂，吃饭，报告这一年来他们生命中的改变，同时向这一年过世的人致敬。每一年我们都会宣读死者名单。当三十一俱乐部只剩下一个人之时，他就得找三十个理想的候选人来当会员，在特定的这个晚上让他们聚在一起。然后朗诵三十个已经过世的兄弟名字，烧掉名单，结束这一章，并开启下一章。” 这个低调的“三十一俱乐部”自从一九六一年五月的第一个星期四开启新章后，三十二年里死了十四个人，有自杀的、有意外的、有他杀的，这么高的死亡率难道只是偶然吗？

我一直想走进她的生活，结果却一再地面对她的死亡。
纽约格林尼治村一名妓女被刺死在公寓中，整张床成了血海；与她同住的同性恋男孩浑身是血冲上街头，被当作凶犯抓了起来，随后在监狱自尽。
女孩的继父找到马修•斯卡德，希望了解自己的女儿到底是什么人，为什么招来杀身之祸。
劳伦斯·布洛克是当今欧美硬汉派侦探小说第一人，他的作品拥有最多崇拜者、精英分子最爱收藏。
《父之罪》是新星出版社强力推出的“午夜文库”系列的第一部作品，该系列遴选160年侦探小说史上最纯粹、最经典、最具智慧的作品，让阅读成为娱乐，让阅读成为冒险，让阅读成为智能训练。喜欢阅读侦探小说的读者还可以加入新星出版社的“午夜俱乐部”，参加很多读书活动。
作者劳伦斯·布洛克被誉为“在纽约游走的忧郁灵魂”，很多精英分子为之迷狂。侯孝贤把他的书推荐给梁朝伟，后者希望扮演他笔下的角色；朱天心说布洛克——“他是类型小说大师，又是一位不愿驯服的抗拒的越界者”……四十年来，布洛克伴随着落魄固执的马修·斯卡德，还有绅士大盗伯尼·罗登巴尔、睡不着觉的密探伊凡·谭纳、冷酷杀手凯勒，见证了纽约最极致的繁华与罪恶。即使第一页就暴露了凶手，对他的作品也没有影响。有人说，布洛克的本领是先在血腥里看见恐怖，然后把恐怖化成悬疑再在悬疑里寻求理解，理解杀人者为何而杀，被杀者因何而死。

整部小說開始於一個狀似不經意的小動作，在拳擊台觀眾席上，一個狀似父親的男子，把手放在一個狀似他兒子的小男孩額上，溫柔的把小男孩的褐髮往後攏，然而對瞥見這一幕的馬修史卡德而言，卻雷擊般宛如看到該隱的印記一個記敘著謀殺和死亡的印記。
獲獎紀錄：
1992年愛倫坡獎最佳小說

Jerry Broadfield thinks he's a good cop. But he's been charged with extortion - and his former buddies in the NYPD would like to see him laid bare out on a morgue slab for squealing to a committee on police corruption. And when a dead hooker turns up in his apartment, he's saddled with a murder rap as well. Broadfield screams "frame-up" and nobody believes him - except ex-policeman-turned-p.i. Matthew Scudder. But finding a killer among the stoolie-cop's sleazebag connections is going to be as difficult as finding a cold beer in Hell - which is where Scudder is headed if he sticks his nose in too deep.

为了拯救深陷泰北丛林的女友，谭纳从纽约，一路赶到泰北原始森林，身无分文，语言不通，被剥了精光后，关进鸟笼般的牢笼里，在一位对与女性发生关系极为执着的年轻泰国男子帮助下，好不容易逃离即将被砍头的命运。但谭纳不改初衷，与这位新朋友继续深入原始丛林，寻找生死未卜的女友.....
本书延续谭纳系列一贯的“逃脱“主题，为内地引入劳伦斯•布洛克”系列小说“的收宫之作。书中对多铎--谭纳儿子的妈妈的现状有一句话的交代，有意者可留心

你可能听说过马修·斯卡德，来，现在认识一下另一个纽约人：伊凡·谭纳。因为睡眠中枢受损，他从来不睡觉，多出来的时间，他读各种书，学各种语言，参加各种异见分子组织。马修几乎不离开纽约，他则到处冒险，第一站是土耳其。看了别睡不着……

A ruthless, ingenious pair of entrepreneurial monsters is preying on the loved ones of those who live outside the law. Though he has no love for drug dealers and poison peddlers, ex-cop-turned-p.i. Matthew Scudder now must help them put two thrill-kill extortionists out of business -- before another drop of innocent blood is spilled.

The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well. </p>
That was the thing about New York -- if you loved it, if it worked for you, it ruined you for anyplace else in the world. </p>
In this dazzlingly constructed novel, Lawrence Block reveals the secret at the heart of the Big Apple. His glorious metropolis is really a small town, filled with men and women from all walks of life whose aspirations, fears, disappointments, and triumphs are interconnected by bonds as unbreakable as they are unseen. Pulsating with the lives of its denizens -- bartenders and hookers, power brokers and politicos, cops and secretaries, editors and dreamers -- the city inspires a passion that is universal yet unique in each of its eight million inhabitants, including: </p>
John Blair Creighton, a writer on the verge of a breakthrough; </p>
Francis Buckram, a charismatic ex&#150;police commissioner -- and the inside choice for the next mayor -- on the verge of a breakdown; </p>
Susan Pomerance, a beautiful, sophisticated folk-art dealer plumbing the depths of her own fierce sexuality; </p>
Maury Winters, a defense attorney who prefers murder trials because there's one less witness; </p>
Jerry Pankow, an ex-addict who has turned being clean into a living, mopping up after New York's nightlife; </p>
And, in the shadows of a city reeling from tragedy, an unlikely killing machine who wages a one-man war against them all. </p>
Infused with the raw cadence, stark beauty, and relentless pace of New York City, Small Town is a tour de force Block fans old and new will celebrate. </p>

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Keller is your basic urban Lonely Guy.He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment.Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country...and kills somebody. It's a living. But is it a life? Keller's not sure. He goes to a shrink, but it doesn't work out the way he planned. He gets a dog, he gets a girlfriend. He gets along.

Ever since The Burglar on the Prowl climbed the bestseller lists in 2004, fans have been clamoring for a new book featuring the lighthearted and lightfingered Bernie Rhodenbarr. Now everybody's favorite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons. And, wouldn't you know it, there's a dead body, all stretched out on a Trent Barling carpet...

「我們什麼都有，就是沒有未來。」
他不是成為一名冷血殺手，就是一具冰冷屍體！
一名行騙度日的男子，一只藏有海洛因的旅行箱，一場拿性命作為籌碼的騙局……
喬．馬林是個年輕的騙子，仗著那看起來強壯又富有的軀體──結實的肌肉，下斜的雙肩，窄窄的腰身，曬成古銅色的肌膚──從好騙的女人身上拐錢度日。
他剛離開一個錯誤的對象──他看走眼了，一副有錢人模樣、有著漂亮胸部的琳達．詹姆森，其實是個想釣金龜婿的窮酸女孩。他離開費城，下一個落腳處是大西洋城，然後，他在海灘上邂逅了穿著連身紅色泳裝、溼漉的金髮還在滴水、紅潤的雙唇看起來充滿饑渴的蒙娜．布若薩德。
他的人生從此起了劇烈的變化。
不只因為蒙娜，還包括藏在他偷來的旅行箱裡，一大盒高純度海洛因。
喬．馬林想擁有蒙娜，以及不虞匱乏的幸福人生。現在他得執行他生涯中最危險的騙局、一場拿性命作賭注的遊戲，他的下場不是成為一名冷血殺手，就是一具冰冷屍體……
喬．馬林，這是我的名字；是我還沒叫大衛．蓋維蘭，也還沒叫蘭尼．K．布雷克或其他一大堆名字之前的真名。
姓名重要嗎？從來就不重要。
但出於某些該死的理由，我希望她喊我喬……

Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It's been an entire year since he's entered anyone's abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord's threat to increase Bernie's rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it's a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless collection of baseball cards, Bernie's stuck with a worthless alibi since he was busy burgling a different apartment at the time . . . one that happened to contain a dead body locked inside a bathroom. So Bernie has a dilemma. He can trade a burglary charge for a murder rap. Or he can shuffle all the cards himself and try to find the joker in the deck -- someone, perhaps, who believes that homicide is the real Great American Pastime.

他是個睡不著覺的奇男子，
熱愛消逝的理想與美麗女子，
FBI調查他、CIA監聽他、還有一個極機密組織想延攬他，
但是這次，他只為被人口販子擄走的美女賣命──
心愛的莫慌莫急，妳的英雄譚納來了！
伊凡．麥可．譚納，三十四歲，自從韓戰時被一枚榴霰彈碎片摧毀腦裡的睡眠中樞之後，就沒闔眼睡過覺。譚納熱愛消逝的理想和美麗的女子，聯邦調查局有關於他的厚厚一疊檔案，中央情報局監聽他的電話，另外還有一個極機密的情報組織則想延攬他效力！
譚納怎麼可能拒絕一位焦急母親的請託，更何況這位母親有個像菲德菈．哈洛這般美麗的女兒？在阿富汗某個偏僻的角落裡，菲德菈在人口販子的手中消失了，譚納似乎沒有別的選擇，只能動身前去找到她......

A beautiful young woman called Marilyn picks up a stranger in a bar and takes him home to her Manhattan apartment. The next morning her housekeeper discovers Marilyn's body. Marilyn's life and death have far-reaching effects on others, even people she has never met: a charismatic former police commissioner on the verge of a breakdown; a struggling writer; a folk art dealer plumbing the depths of her own fierce sexuality; a lawyer who prefers murder trials because there's one witness fewer. And in a city reeling from 9/11, an unlikely mass murderer wages a one-man war against everyone. In this gripping, multi-faceted story, Block not only brings to life in brilliant detail the city of New York, but proves he is one of the most talented, innovative and surprising crime writers in the business.

"I don t play cards with men named Doc， or eat at places called Mom s. Or drink before I burgle. . . . It is， I should point out， not a career I would recommend for anyone. The fact that I evidently can t give it up doesn t mean I m not well aware of the disagreeably sordid nature of what I do." -- Bernie Rhodenbarr Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block returns with one of his most inspired and popular characters: the extraordinary Bernie Rhodenbarr. Antiquarian bookseller by day， burglar by night， Bernie has an innate knack， a gift， for getting into places designed to keep him out. Sophisticated yet down-to-earth， philosophical yet practical， Bernie is a gentleman who knows and loves his territory， the gloriously diverse and electric streets of Manhattan; a connoisseur who surrounds himself with the finer things in life， including his tailless Manx tabby， Raffles， and good friends like his neighbor Carolyn. In fact， it s a friend who gets him in his latest jam. Bernie is minding his own business when he s asked for a favor -- a neat， uncomplicated bit of vengeful larceny that will reap a tidy profit -- an offer the intrepid thief can t refuse. But with a few days to go before the crime， Bernie gets restless. So what does a burglar do to change his mood? Go on the prowl， of course. Though not the best way to do business， as he well knows. This bit of prowling lands Bernie in a pile of trouble that includes four murders and the burglary of his own home. Caught in the center of a deadly mystery， he must use his wits and wiles to connect the dots and add up the coincidences. Because if Bernie doesn t catch a killer， he ll lose not only his freedom but his life. Infused with the rich atmosphere of New York City and filled with a smart， charming cast of characters headed by the stylish Bernie， The Burglar on the Prowl is an engaging and delightfully suspenseful tale sure to be savored by Block fans old and new.

《酒店关门之后》主要内容简介：莫西里酒吧被抢[小猫小姐]的账本被偷、蒂勒里太太被杀。三个当事人都请马修出面帮助查出真相，在一条条线索发现之后，三个案件的零碎拼图慢慢被拼在了一起，所有真相水落石出，马修自会有他的解决办法。