Lawrence Block Books in Order

Insurance salesman Don Barshter flees after killing his wife and assumes the identity of Nathaniel Crowley. Building a new life draws him into organized crime, where escaping his original offense means taking increasingly dangerous chances.

Set in the artists’ community of New Hope, Pennsylvania, this novel follows an ensemble of characters through their private lives and sexual entanglements. Multiple viewpoints create a candid portrait of the people behind a picturesque Bucks County setting.

Approaching thirty, suburban housewife Janet Kurland begins keeping a diary of her comfortable but unsatisfying life. An affair leads her toward Greenwich Village, where new relationships and experiences challenge the boundaries of her marriage and identity.

Harry, his wife Rhoda, and the divorced Priss share a relationship and decide to write a novel about it. Their separate contributions reveal things they hadn't understood about one another, changing the arrangement they hoped to describe.

After her divorce, Rhoda explores relationships with women in Greenwich Village and becomes involved with Megan. Questions about what she wants from love mingle with jealousy, complicating her effort to build a satisfying new life.

Seventeen stories take inspiration from works of art spanning cave paintings to modern images. Accompanying reproductions let readers compare each artwork with the fictional lives, conflicts, and possibilities that different writers imagine around it.

Keller's assignment to kill a Detroit man overlaps with a San Francisco stamp auction both men plan to attend. Discovering a fellow collector in his target introduces an uncomfortable connection into the hit man's work.

A woman trying to leave sex work faces a client who refuses to let her go. Through Elaine, retired investigator Matthew Scudder becomes involved, confronting the man's threats while managing his own aging and sobriety.

Broadway producer Johnny Lane finds his leading lady murdered shortly before his new play begins previews. With his cast under threat, he investigates a collection of suspects whose secrets could endanger both the production and himself.

This collection brings together seven works written across sixty years, including the novella Resume Speed. Other stories feature lawyer John J. Malone, a forgotten tale of a husband's death, and a district attorney's ambitions.

In Antrim, Ohio, April North becomes the subject of gossip after Danny Duncan boasts about their relationship. As other men pursue her, she must navigate the expectations and attention that his claims have brought.

Seventeen stories explore darkness across crime fiction, westerns, dystopian settings, and other genres. Contributors including Joe Hill, Joe R. Lansdale, and James Reasoner place characters in unsettling situations that extend beyond a single kind of mystery.

Seventeen American paintings provide the starting points for seventeen stories by different writers. Reproductions accompany fiction inspired by artists including Winslow Homer, Andy Warhol, and Grant Wood, linking imagined events to scenes on canvas.

Lawrence Block gathers nonfiction about travel, family, New York, and the oddities of a writer’s life. A quest to visit places named Buffalo anchors essays that range from personal remembrance to pen names, book tours, and unexpected collecting interests.

A man's account begins with the murder and sexual assault of a woman near Bakersfield. Rather than centering on a detective's investigation, the novel follows the killer's subsequent life and his relationship with what he did.

Bookseller and burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr appears in this collection of short fiction and related pieces. The volume gathers his shorter adventures with excerpts, articles, and background material exploring how Lawrence Block developed the character.

This anthology explores crime and unease in colleges and universities, with stories about rivalries, old murders, plagiarism, and secret societies. Different writers reveal how academic ambitions and hidden resentments can turn familiar campuses into dangerous places.

Lawrence Block recalls his determination to become a writer and the prolific, often pseudonymous work that launched his career. Revisiting his early adulthood decades later, he traces the relationships, publishing experiences, and decisions behind his first novels.

Block gathers afterwords and introductions to his earlier books, recalling how they were written and what his life was like at the time. The pieces form a memoir of his developing career, including work published under pseudonyms.

This crime-fiction anthology explores the urge to collect and the extreme behavior it can inspire. Its stories range from coveted celebrity artifacts and private letters to lost television shows, with collectors whose desire to possess the perfect object turns perilous.

Bernie Rhodenbarr's bookstore and burglary career seem defeated by modern technology. Then he wakes in a slightly different world where both professions flourish, offering a tempting opportunity to steal a famous diamond and discover what else has changed.

Matthew Scudder recounts the life behind his detective cases, from childhood and family influences to his years in the NYPD. His memories explore police work, formative relationships, and alcoholism, revealing how he became the investigator familiar from his later adventures.

Lawrence Block revisits an essay about writing and sobriety that he originally published under a pseudonym after giving up alcohol. His new introduction restores its place in his work, reflecting on a personal transition once kept separate from his public identity.

Freshman David enters a Manhattan university eager for sexual experience and finds an upperclassman willing to guide him. His initiation into a club of libertines introduces a new world of encounters, turning college life into an education beyond the classroom.

Several sex workers share a mobile home near an army base, using it as both their residence and workplace. Their moving establishment forms the premise of an early erotic novel about the unconventional lives of women living and working together.