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superwendy 's review for:
A Dance At The Slaughterhouse
by Lawrence Block
Continuing to spiral down the grimdark rabbit hole that is the Scudder series. This one hinges on a major coincidence - a man hires Scudder to investigate his brother-in-law, who he believes is responsible for his sister's murder. But Scudder is soon distracted by an investigation nobody is paying him for - a snuff film that a member of his AA group brings to his attention. Eventually the two cases converge.
We've got the Kinky = Evil trope here and there's a snuff film - so it's fairly graphic. Underage gay hustlers and women don't exactly fare well in the story (they have this habit of winding up murdered). Block also spent a little too much word count on Mick/Scudder tangents for my liking but I kept listening which just goes to show my tolerance for grim seems to have no bottom.
We've got the Kinky = Evil trope here and there's a snuff film - so it's fairly graphic. Underage gay hustlers and women don't exactly fare well in the story (they have this habit of winding up murdered). Block also spent a little too much word count on Mick/Scudder tangents for my liking but I kept listening which just goes to show my tolerance for grim seems to have no bottom.