Blood Relatives
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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.
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.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just one case in this book, but it's a good one! A young gal is murdered on a rainy night after a party, and her cousin is the prime suspect! Or is it her co-worker? Or?The first two pages of this book really drew me in! And, Chapters 8 and 9, Carella reading Muriel’s diary, are such a cool way to reveal the crime and it’s background! Well, except who-done-it, which Carella figures out in the following chapter. It's a nice paced, quick read and everything I've come to expect from this series! Thanks Mr. McBain!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McBain is in full stride in this psychological thriller. Forget that the "real killer" is pretty easy to spot. The path to the end is so well-wrought, and there is real tension until the inevitable reveal. Although it is a thriller, and very much an 87th Precinct piece, with all the usual wonderful cop and detective banter and humor that makes this series so endearing, there are moments of really good writing that are the work of a mature novelist whose story-telling chops and brilliance of execution are on full display.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fairly straightforward tale of jealousy, incest, pedophilia and homicidal insanity, all wrapped up in under 160 pages. Each of these mini-masterpieces is the template for countless TV episodes and B-movie screenplays, but they have never been delivered with more brutal concision than in these perfect paperbacks.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Saturday night is party time, two teenage girls are victims of a sex attack, one is stabbed to death the other is just wounded...a messy case for the detectives of the 87th. As ever, a gripping read.