Lightning

In this installment of the 87th Precinct series, the precinct's male detectives spend their days and nights hunting someone who is killing young women and then hanging their bodies from lampposts around the city. They are assisted in their investigation by Fat Ollie Weeks of the 83rd Precinct and, a......more

Two parallel investigations of very unpleasant crimes - murder with the victims left hanging, and multiple rapes. Carella, Hawes, Kling and fat Ollie all involved tracking the perpetrators, with Eileen Burke, now Kling's girlfriend as a rape decoy again. Quite a shocking book in many ways.......more

At 334 pages this is another long book compared with most of the 87th Precinct novels. The extra length gives more details but I also think the story loses some of the tightness, with quite a bit of superfluous filler. There was one whole chapter that just went over what all the detectives were doin......more

The killer is once again causing havoc for the 87th Squad. And a rapist is repeatedly raping the same women. Both cases have some odd features. It's classic Ed McBain, always interesting characters, and often mysteries with a twist.......more

Another slightly longer addition to the series. It contains two of the more interesting cases that the precinct has investigated, but there was a lot of padding to get the book to 300 pages.......more