Blood Relatives, Ed McBain
Blood Relatives, Ed McBain
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Blood Relatives

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 6 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/21/2012

Synopsis

Steve Carella does not fit the picture of a big city detective. Well-mannered and the consummate professional, he lacks the rough-hewn edges of the men who devote their lives to fighting crime on the streets. But there is one thing that tears him up…one thing that drives him to the edge of his much darker side.When a madman rapes and kills his first victim in the 87th Precinct but leaves the second alive after a brutal knifing, Carella relentlessly hunts the man down. But the detective is in for a shock when the surviving victim recognizes the assailant in a police lineup…A probing, intimate crime thriller that exposes the deeper recesses of the 87th Precinct’s main character, Blood Relatives is an Ed McBain classic. His mastery of character, dialogue, and place come together in a brooding powerhouse of a novel.

About Ed McBain

Ed McBain was one of the pen names of successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter (1926 – 2005). Debuting in 1956, the popular 87th Precinct is one of the longest running crime series ever published, featuring over fifty novels, and is hailed as “one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” McBain was awarded the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 1986 by the Mystery Writers of America and was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bobby

Evan Hunter is better known today as Ed McBain, because of the 87th Precinct series. He wrote Blood Relatives in 1975, nearly twenty years after the inaugural book in the series, Cop Hater. From the opening scene as a bloodied girl runs through the rain-darkened streets of Isola to get help, this on......more

Goodreads review by James

This book, which first appeared in 1975, is about halfway through the 87th Precinct series and it's one of the better books in the series. Two young female cousins, seventeen and fifteen, are walking home late one night after a party in a driving rainstorm. As they take refuge from the rain in an ab......more

Goodreads review by David

Really enjoyed this one - Carella and Kling really the only two of the Precinct guys to feature - and a violent murder of a seventeen year old girl to solve. The story moves along with real pace, with a big twist half way through and then another big twist at the end (although I had suspected it was......more

Goodreads review by CriminOlly

Another excellent 87th Precinct mystery A really solid entry in the series. This has less comedy than some of the books, and features a single case and a single cop (Carella, of course). A bit like ‘Sadie When She Died’, it’s unrelentingly bleak, but also moving and very effective. The mystery is gr......more

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