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    Lullaby
    Lullaby
    Lullaby
    Audiobook10 hours

    Lullaby

    Written by Ed McBain

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    New Year’s Day brings the dawn of a new year and the hope of better days to come. But for a couple who returns home from a New Year’s Eve party in the early morning hours to find their babysitter and child murdered, that hope is suddenly, brutally gone. For Detectives Carella and Meyer, the sight of the crime scene hits with magnum force, their own children at home safe in their beds.

    Detective Kling rings in the New Year with an investigation into drug trafficking that erupts into a deadly turf war among rival gangs. They will stop at nothing to kill each other to achieve supremacy—and even kill a detective in the bargain.

    The fortieth installment in what iconic writer Stephen King calls “inarguably the best series of police procedural novels ever written,” Lullaby is Ed McBain at his groundbreaking best.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781455873869
    Lullaby
    Author

    Ed McBain

    Ed McBain has been the recipient of the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America. His 87th Precinct novels are international bestsellers. He lives in Connecticut.

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    • 4/5
      “Love or money,” Meyer said and sighed. “It never changes.”2 murders on the first day of the new year. A baby and the babysitter. A brutal case for the detectives of the 87th Precinct. And one with quite a lot of twists and turns, all of which were entertaining to read!The secondary plot was about a Jamaican gang, and a Latino man named Herrera, and drugs. Not the best story.And the tertiary plot was Eileen going to therapy to talk about her rape, her subsequent shooting of a suspect, and her desire to quit the force. Though not a part of either of the above plotlines, this was really well written and quite illuminating for Eileen's character. Put all together, another good read! I'm going to be quite sad when I reach the end of these novels.
    • 4/5
      87th Precinct detectives Meyer Meyer and Steve Carella find themselves investigating the murder of a 6 month old baby and her babysitter early on New Years Day morning. Bert Kling, another detective in the Precinct is working on a finding a drug dealer named Hamilton after he saves the life of Jose Herrara from a beating with baseball bats wielded by Hamilton's not to smart henchmen. Herrara meanwhile is trying to outsmart Hamilton plus a group of Chinese drugs dealers as well as using Kling to help him.Another complicated story that keeps the pages turning.
    • 4/5

      This was the old maestro's fortieth novel in the 87th Precinct series, and it's one of the longest and best. The main plot strand has Carella and Meyer tracking down the killer of a babysitter and baby during the early hours of New Year's Day -- a killer who's not unafraid to kill again. In the usual McBain fashion, there's plenty of dirty laundry that comes out during the two cops' investigation. Meantime, Kling has saved the life a small-time hood who promises, not as a favour but more as a matter of shared self-interest, to elucidate the details of an enormous drug transaction due to go down in Isola during the next few days. Little does Kling realize it, but he's being sucked into a vortex involving extraordinary inter-gang carnage. In a third and significantly lesser plot strand, Eileen Burke, who has been Kling's significant other, is undergoing psychotherapy in order to cope with having killed a man in the line of duty and earlier having suffered rape during undercover work; should she carry through with her intention to resign the badge, and should she make her separation from Kling permanent?

      It's all great stuff, with the characteristic McBain mixture of gritty reality, casual violence, integrity-versus-venality, verbal pyrotechnics and frequent blithe humour. I'm beginning to run out of later 87th Precinct novels that I haven't yet read, and may have to go back to the beginning of the series to reread the ones I first encountered (thanks to the bookshelf and generous lending of my older cousin Brian) as a schoolboy . . .