{"product_id":"9780316132732","title":"A Drop of the Hard Stuff (Matthew Scudder Series #17)","description":"\"Right up there with Mr. Block's best....A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF keeps us guessing.\"--Tom Nolan, \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFacing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder reluctantly begins his own investigation, with just one lead: Ellery's Alcoholics Anonymous list of people he wronged. One of them may be a killer, but that's not necessarily Scudder's greatest danger. Immersing himself in Ellery's world may lead him right back to the bar stool.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a novel widely celebrated by critics and readers, Lawrence Block circle back to how it all began, reestablishing the Matthew Scudder series as one of the pinnacles of American detective fiction.","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120940138736,"sku":"9780316132732","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316132732_p0.jpg?v=1769889115","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316132732","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}