Meet Doak Miller, a cop who checked out after working for the NYPD for 24 years. He drove his beat up Monte Carlo to a small-town in Gallatin County, FL, lived in a motel until he got sick of the smell, and then hired a housewife with a real estate license to sell him a house. He picked one set off by itself with a small dock on a creek that flowed eventually into the Gulf of Mexico. Her name was Barb and soon they were friends with benefits - sexual benefits.

In THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES, Doak got his Private Investigators license and does small jobs for the local police. He does much of his work never leaving his house - his computer does it all. All the talking and walking, ringing door bells and asking questions no one ever wants to answer. He gets it done and gets paid enough to enjoy his retirement sitting on his dock, day dreaming about his fantasy. "He meets this woman, and their eyes lock, and they connect in a way that neither of them has ever before connected with another human being."

Lisa Yarrow Otterbein is a married woman who wants her husband killed. She is tired of being married to George Otterbein, a rich local businessman who she can no longer tolerate, and he has become bored with her. She goes back to work as a hostess at the Cattle Barron's Steak house. She tells a customer that she wants to hire a hit man to knock off her husband and he reports this to the sheriff. The sheriff calls Doak to work with him to set Lisa up but Doak sees her picture and makes other plans.

When Lisa and Doak meet he almost drowns in her blue eyes and knows at once that she is what he has been looking for, his fantasy. He sets in motion a very involved murder scenario including George and his new, young masseuse love interest. Can Doak commit the perfect crime? Will he and Lisa end up together like in his fantasy?

Lawrence Block tells a good crime thriller. His writing is not for the faint of heart, or prudes. He has written over 100 novels, one recently a blockbuster movie, A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. I have read many of his books and I'm never disappointed with his plots and cast of characters. THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES is no exception. Another complex, sexy suspense-filled story from a master storyteller.

Book Summary

In the depths of her blue eyes, he glimpsed... murder.

Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who’s looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep blue eyes...

He falls – and falls hard. Soon he’s working with her, against his employer, plotting a devious plan that could get her free from her husband and put millions in her bank account. But can they do it without landing in jail? And once he’s kindled his taste for killing...will he be able to stop at one?

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