THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES by Lawrence Block

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Working as a private investigator in Florida, retired New York cop J.W. "Doak" Miller is hired to pose as a hitman so the local sheriff can catch Lisa Otterbein plotting to kill her wealthy, older husband, George.

As fate would have it, however, Lisa matches a fantasy Doak has had for years. He decides to make the sheriff think she's changed her mind about the murder while hatching a plot of his own to get away with her.

The premise is classic pulp, so it may surprise you The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes is set in the present day of Web searches and burner phones. There's no one better than Block—steeped in genre tradition, yet as in touch with today as can be—to show the two can work together.

The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes is due out September 22.