Review: FINDING A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2013
When Matt Scudder is met unexpectantly by a lawyer he doesn't know, he doesn't know what to think.  When said lawyer tells him an unknown murder victim has left him $1200 in her will, he knows even less.  But Matthew Scudder wouldn't be Matthew Scudder if he did not listen to his conscience and he feels the dead woman is calling out to him from her grave.And so the hunt is on.  LIGHT A CANDLE FOR THE BAG LADY is a classic whodunit set in the glorious social battleground that is NYC.  On the way, Scudder meets a plethora of interesting characters; we learn about police procedure both on and off the record and finally the mystery is solved.  One could say that it solved itself but when you get a story this good, with a perp as superficially innoccuos but inherently chilling as this one was and an ending quite poignant, you really can't complain.  Well, I can't anyway.More great stuff from the grand master.BFN Greggorio