Widows, Ed McBain
Widows, Ed McBain
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Widows

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2013

Synopsis

Another summer. Another heat wave. And another murder so brutal it’s hard to fathom the cruelty that stalks the city’s streets. When Susan Brauer was stabbed thirty-two times with a paring knife, Detectives Carella and Brown find clues that connect her to the senior partner of a prestigious law firm. That connection doesn’t happen, however, until he is dead on a city sidewalk.An unrelated murder—that of Carella’s own father—has turned the detective’s world upside down, and the 45th Precinct’s investigation is hitting dead ends faster than a bullet turns a wife into a widow. But the lawyer has left behind a wife, an ex-wife, two grown daughters, and plenty of hidden animosities to fill a detective’s notebook. For the men who patrol the city, their personal lives take a back seat no matter how many surprises—and sorrows—they find along the way.A probing, emotionally rich addition to bestselling author Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series, Widows peels back the layers of protagonist Steve Carella’s past to deliver a procedural of extraordinary depth and resonance.

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 James on November 22, 2015

A string of murders has suddenly left a proliferation of widows in the 87th Precinct, and one of the cases hits especially close to home for the detectives of the precinct. The first victim is a beautiful young woman named Susan Brauer, who is viciously stabbed to death with a small knife. She leaves......more

Goodreads review by David on March 25, 2018

Another good book from the 87th, with the main storyline being a series of murders associated with a rich lawyer, but other lines about the rehabilitation of Eileen Burke (psychologically damaged in a previous book), the murder of Carella’s father and problems with his brother-in-law.......more

Goodreads review by AndrewP on August 21, 2022

Probably the longest of the series so far and one of the best. Like many of the earlier books there is more than one case being worked here, but in addition to that there are a couple of sub plots concerning the private lives of some of the detectives. These sub plots have more depth than the previo......more

Goodreads review by Lukasz on November 25, 2021

"On the street outside, the crowd behind the barricade was getting restless. This was already three o'clock in the morning, but no one was thinking of sleep. The only thing on anyone's mind was Showdown at the O.K. Corral. Toward that end, and with the seeming purpose of rattling everyone in sight s......more

Goodreads review by Ruth on October 01, 2013

After being disappointed with the last two McBain novels not being as good as what I remembered, this one was more like what I expected. There is plenty of excitement in the hot month of July in the city. A beautiful, young blonde girl is found dead. In her apartment is $12,000 and some pornographic......more

Quotes

“Phenomenally good.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

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