Ghosts, Ed McBain
Ghosts, Ed McBain
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Ghosts

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 7 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2012

Synopsis

A young woman stops at the grocery store after work, but she never makes it home—at least not all the way. She is stabbed to death in front of her building, her groceries strewn across the cold pavement. Upstairs her neighbor and popular ghost story author Gregory Craig lay dead as well, stabbed in his apartment. When Craig’s publisher is found murdered just days later, Detective Steve Carella has a deadly mystery on his hands, one unlike any he’s ever had before.Searching for clues, Carella instead finds Craig’s girlfriend, a medium whose spooky predictions keep him guessing. When some leads take him to a “haunted” house on the New England shores, strange events turn even stranger…until, back in the city, he turns up the crucial evidence he needs to track down the killer.A rare twist in Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series, Ghosts weaves the haunting uneasiness of the supernatural thriller with a classic, tightly plotted police procedural. Stephen King hails Ghosts as “excellent. It’s a fine—and creepy—mystery, and a fine 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 Orient on July 06, 2017

A rec from my great GR pal, Craig :) Let me ask you on a dinner in Mr. McBain’s Greasy Spoon, on a strange, a bit creepy, interesting date. For the appetizers you’ll get some in a nice (view spoiler)[The ghost scene made me uncertain as it seemed not real, the thing is, if it was really a ghost house so it must have (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by James on April 02, 2015

This is another very entertaining entry in Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series and one of several through the years that take place during the holiday season. As Christmas approaches, Steve Carella is called to the scene of a murder. A woman, on her way home from work, stops by the grocery store and is......more

Goodreads review by David on June 11, 2017

An 87th Precinct book with a supernatural twist. Carmella is the lead character with Hawes in support and seemingly appraising all the women in the investigation as they solve 3 murders......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on November 03, 2018

Serviceable entry in the series made slightly remarkable by a turn to the supernatural. I feel like this was a trope throughout the 70s and 80s that non-supernatural cop shows would occasionally put out an episode with a sympathetic medium and leave unresolved whether or not vampires are real or som......more

Goodreads review by Ron on October 15, 2016

I was pretty sure I'd read everything McBain ever wrote, but I somehow missed this 1980 book. It's everything we expect from McBain: intriguing plot, vivid sense of place, well-developed and beloved characters, and a good dash of wry humor. He just instinctively knows how to blend these elements toge......more

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