A Stab in the Dark by Lawrence Block

I had plan to read at least three books from other authors before I go back to Lawrence Block. But like Matt Scudder's obsession with bourbon, I am obsessed to Lawrence Blocks' books. And the sight of the unread Lawrence Block books occupied in my modest library is just irresistible. 

A serial killer tabloided as Icepick prowler who picks eyes of innocent random women after he stabs them to death, gets caught by utter fluke and indicted presumably for eight murders.He confesses to seven of those eight killings, leaving Barbara Ettinger's murder which was presumed for nine years after hear death to be his work, unwraps the whole new possibilities. But police don't see it that way, and are content with the closing of other open homicides and are too inert to work on the nine year old cold case of Barbara.  

But To Charles V. London, Father of Barbara the denial comes as a whirl wind, disrupting his earlier belief that his daughter's death was not just a inescapable doomed fate, but a planned murder by someone impersonating as the ice-pick prowler, but more significantly someone who is close to her, some one who may be still walking free. The suspicion leads him towards Matt Scudder the unlicensed PI, and hires him to find the guy who killed his daughter. 

Once again in the heart of the well plotted mystery there is a strong self-condemning protagonist fighting battle with his pschye. Along with the hangover that lingers in his mind after some heavy drinking (which is quite often in this book), the moral dilemmas of right and wrong also tend to drift around in his brain like a bike speeding inside a silodrome and author does a effective job in bringing about  the wretchedness of human mind. 

Stab at the Dark is yet another powerful book form the author and if every book in the series are as consistent as this, then I am in for great reading time in future as I have already have another three  books from the author in my shelf waiting to be read.