After the First Death

by Lawrence Block

Published 13 August 1981
It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why-before the police do.

Coward's Kiss

by Lawrence Block

Published 1 March 1987
A WOMAN FOUND SHOT IN CENTRAL PARK MEANS MORE THAN MURDER IN ONE OF BLOCK'S MOST CHILLING MYSTERIES. ANOTHER NOVEL OF NONSTOP SUSPENSE FROM MYSTERY'S GRAND MASTER OF MURDER AND MAYHEM. New York City private investigator Ed London has a problem. Or rather, the problem is his brother-in-law's. Jack Enright's mistress, a woman with secrets of her own, has been shot to death in the apartment that he pays for. But when the body, moved by London to Central Park, is finally identified, London knows he must act quickly to find her killer, before the killer and the police find him.