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    Shotgun
    Shotgun
    Shotgun
    Audiobook5 hours

    Shotgun

    Written by Ed McBain

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    They were dead, the husband and wife. Both were shot in the face at close range with a shotgun. The husband, in fact, still had his finger on the trigger, the barrel pointing toward what used to be a significant portion of his head. It was clearly a suicide—or did it just look that way? For Detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling, what seems to be the truth on the surface often reveals something far different underneath.

    A killer is murdering married women and their husbands. But setting up shop in the 87th Precinct was the wrong move. Carella and Kling don’t buy the suicide theory, and soon enough they are on the killer’s trail. The only trouble is the murderous crime wave ripping through the city has gathered momentum.

    The Chicago Sun-Times proclaims, “Ed McBain…He hooks you…He holds you.” Shotgun, a gritty thriller in the 87th Precinct series, is a blast of sheer intensity as a series of grisly murders leads you on a high-octane ride toward a shocking, unforgettable conclusion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 10, 2012
    ISBN9781455873906
    Shotgun
    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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    • 2/5
      McBain seems to be the king of the opening punch. Much like the grim openings of exciting 'Law & Order' episodes, he draws you in with a powerful crime scene. This book opens with two faceless bodies on the floor of an apartment.But McBain fails to sustain an exciting plot as generic cops generically explore common locations and interrogate all-too-frequent character types, resulting in an incredibly predictable ending. His writing has no panache, no sense of curiosity, one might be wholly better just reading the police blotter.I purchased three or four 87th Precinct mysteries at the used bookstore for a quarter a piece. In the end that's probably what they're worth.
    • 4/5
      “Everyone likes to spend Saturday in a different way. Meyer and Hawes went to a poetry reading, Carella got hit on the head, and Bert Kling got beat up.It was a nice Saturday.”The title of this book seemed to scream from its cover - in the voice of Jr. Walker & The All Stars!Unfortunately for the man and woman at the beginning of this book, the title refers to the weapon that shot them, at close range, in the face.The discussion of Cindy’s thesis was so boring. Maybe the first time I've been bored reading an 87th Precinct story! But the rest was good, and as per usual, Carella gets knocked out! Poor guy.As a cool bonus for regular readers - Roger Broome returns to the city and confesses to the murder he committed in book #19! Nice touch!
    • 4/5
      Back to form with a straightforward procedural about a grisly double homicide. Of course Carella gets cold cocked... again... but the rest plays out nearly enough. I worked out what was going on long before the reveal, but that might have only been because of all the things I've seen that ripped off this plot.
    • 3/5
      A couple is found dead in their apartment with shotgun wounds to the face. Not a pretty sight. After much legwork, the detectives find out that the man killed was not the husband but the woman's lover, and it was the husband that killed them both, using a shotgun to distort the features, making identification harder, so he could continue to live his life. I sympathize with cuckolded husbands, but really, murder? It's a little extreme.
    • 5/5
      Halloween in the 87th Precinct, all hell breaking loose with a double murder and a stabbing. As ingeneous and suspenseful as ever, Ed McBain is the king of crime writers for me.