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Product Identifiers
PublisherTitan Books The Limited
ISBN-101803369930
ISBN-139781803369938
eBay Product ID (ePID)12064875630
Product Key Features
Book TitleLemons Never Lie
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Mystery & Detective / Traditional
Publication Year2024
GenreFiction
AuthorRichard Stark
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight6 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsPRAISE FOR DONALD E. WESTLAKE One of the great writers of the 20th Century.--Newsweek The novel's deeper meditations will keep you thinking long after you've closed the book.--USA Today Elegant, melancholy... a significant final work from a master.--Publishers Weekly, starred review One of his most interesting books... absolutely a must-read.--Booklist, starred review Terse and bleak and low-key emotional... indelible.--Entertainment Weekly An unsparing look at a man adrift, it's a fitting final dispatch from a master.--Time A tour-de-force that shows a master at the top of his game.--Edward Champion, Philadelphia Inquirer Relentlessly involving.--Weekly Standard Among the best novels of his brilliant career. It is pure noir writing at its best.--BookReporter A great book... it outshines anything else Westlake has done.--Craig Clarke, Somebody Dies Compelling... bleak stuff - though always with a bit of hope shining through.--The Complete Review With the unveiling of his final unpublished novel [Westlake's] range and depth as a writer are only deepened.--Barnes & Noble This is an exceptional and painful book. It is the essence of noir... one man's unceasing, provocative struggle to make good in a relentlessly grim world... Our unanimous pick for the best genre book of the year.--PornoKitsch Few novels conjure up such a state of pervasive dread...This is the noir nightmare, plain and simple. I read it in a white heat.--Vince Keenan The most terrifying identity puzzle Westlake ever crafted, and it keeps you guessing all the way.--The Westlake Review A penetrating tale, a wonderful story.--Midwest Book Review, "The author maintains the dead-eyed tone of Stark while plotting as generously and inventively as Westlake. Trust Stark, or Westlake, to make even the most ordinary heist nail-biting." - Kirkus Reviews PRAISE FOR DONALD E. WESTLAKE One of the great writers of the 20th Century.--Newsweek The novel's deeper meditations will keep you thinking long after you've closed the book.--USA Today Elegant, melancholy... a significant final work from a master.--Publishers Weekly, starred review One of his most interesting books... absolutely a must-read.--Booklist, starred review Terse and bleak and low-key emotional... indelible.--Entertainment Weekly An unsparing look at a man adrift, it's a fitting final dispatch from a master.--Time A tour-de-force that shows a master at the top of his game.--Edward Champion, Philadelphia Inquirer Relentlessly involving.--Weekly Standard Among the best novels of his brilliant career. It is pure noir writing at its best.--BookReporter A great book... it outshines anything else Westlake has done.--Craig Clarke, Somebody Dies Compelling... bleak stuff - though always with a bit of hope shining through.--The Complete Review With the unveiling of his final unpublished novel [Westlake's] range and depth as a writer are only deepened.--Barnes & Noble This is an exceptional and painful book. It is the essence of noir... one man's unceasing, provocative struggle to make good in a relentlessly grim world... Our unanimous pick for the best genre book of the year.--PornoKitsch Few novels conjure up such a state of pervasive dread...This is the noir nightmare, plain and simple. I read it in a white heat.--Vince Keenan The most terrifying identity puzzle Westlake ever crafted, and it keeps you guessing all the way.--The Westlake Review A penetrating tale, a wonderful story.--Midwest Book Review
SynopsisWhen he's not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately - which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers' plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York. Unfortunately, Myers' plan is insane - so Grofield walks out on him. But Myers isn't a man you walk out on, and his retribution culminates in an act of unforgivable brutality. That's when Grofield decides to show him what a disciple of Parker is capable of...
