In the following review. Dirda provides a brief overview of Flood.
Andrew H. Vachss has written quite an extraordinary thriller in Flood. Imagine a New York where the streets are worse than mean, t...
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In the following excerpt, Champlin states that despite its "combination of pulpish devices and empurpled rhetoric," Sacrifice is "mesmerizing in its intensity."
Andrew V...
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In the following review, Stade criticizes Vachss's novel Shella as having a "preposterous" plot and "dialogue unlike anyone has ever said, anywhere."
Ghost, the h...
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In the following review, Baker criticizes Vachss for presenting his characters in a "heavy-handed" manner.
"The first time I killed someone, I was scared", confesses the...
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In the following review, Lukowsky calls Born Bad a "compelling view of the psychotic personality," but argues that in Down in the Zero, Vachss has abandoned "all pretense of chara...
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In the following review, Adcock argues that while Down in the Zero addresses issues more complex than in previous Vachss novels, it reverts to a "mundane plod" due to its failure to expl...
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In the following review, Womack criticizes Vachss's work, likening Footsteps of the Hawk to drinking "near-beer," and faulting Batman: The Ultimate Evil for its comic-book style c...
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In the following review of Batman: The Ultimate Evil, Bishop and Robinson discuss Vachss's use of Batman as a vehicle in his fight against child abuse.
Pow! What? Batman has taken on child p...
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In the following brief review, Callendar calls Strega "unbelievable and slick, but fun."
Want a tough New York crime novel? Try Strega by Andrew Vachss. It features Burke, a private i...
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In the following review, Brashler provides a brief summary of Blue Belle.
A sleuth who lives not just on society's edge, but on its underbelly. An Amazon of a heroine whose thoughts never as...
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In the following review, Nicholson compliments Vachss for the entertainment value his work provides, but criticizes him for a lack of character development and utilizing formulaic plots.
Reading An...
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In the following essay, Abrahams provides a brief biographical profile of Vachss.
Max grabbed the freak's fingertips, stretching the hand out for me. I raised the butcher knife high above m...
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In the following review, Gehr criticizes Vachss for "redundancy, if not hypocrisy."
Having now struck thrice, it's time for popular and once-promising crimester Andrew Vachss t...
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In the following review, Dretzka provides a brief summary of Hard Candy and praises Vachss for his exploration into the darker side of human nature.
Andrew Vachss' crime novels—all of...
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In the following review, Anshaw claims that Vachss's work makes her "morally queasy" and criticizes the "feel-good roll of hate" created by the atmosphere of his nov...
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In the following excerpt, Lehmann-Haupt criticizes Blossom for a number of problematic plot elements.
Blossom is Andrew Vachss's fifth crime novel, after Flood, Strega, Blue Belle and Hard C...
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Critical Review by Michael Dirda
