Search - A Walk Among the Tombstones (Matthew Scudder, Bk 10)

classic Matt Scudder

A new breed of entrepreneurial monster has setup shop in the big city-ruthless,sadistic,ingenious butchers who prey on the loved ones of those living outside the law. Matthew Scudder has no love for the poison peddlers-but drug dealers can't turn to the police for help. It falls to the unlicensed excop-turned p.i.to put the thrill-kill extortionists out of business.

In "Tombstones," a drug dealer whose wife was kidnapped and hideously murdered hires Scudder to track down the perpetrators. Scudder quickly discovers that the deed was the work of a team of serial killers who have decided to turn their "fun" into profit. Like most novels in the Scudder series, this one is dark and obssessed with death. It seems that even as the alcoholic Scudder gets more of a firm handle on his sobriety and his life, his cases get uglier.