Mark, I agree with your comment that it might be tough for
someone approaching Calibre as their first experience with
Bruen. Interestingly, I read Blitz first and then went back
to The White Trilogy, which I'd checked out multiple times
but had never become absorbed in.
As for the suspension of reality:
I enjoy reading Block's Scudder novels because I enjoy
spending time in that world. Though Block consistently
deglamorizes Scudder and in no way makes him larger than
life, when Scudder takes an interest in a second case in any
one of the books, there's sort of a here-we-go-again moment
where anyone who's read a mystery before knows that the two
cases will be connected. That may not be real or
true-to-life, but the character of Scudder has those
qualities as down those mean streets he goes.
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