Nocturne

Mcbain gets better with every book,if thats possible.I enjoyed Nocture mostly for its fast pace,great suspense and of course those lovable cops.I have read every Mcbain I have been able to get my hands on and have yet to be disappointed!

I have read about fifteen 87th precint novels. There all great. Ed mcbain is probably the most underated novelist today. He should really get more credit. Kepp craking them out ed!!!!we love em.

Ed McBain is an underrated writer and a grandmaster of the police procedural genre. Two murders are investigated and near the end of the book the trail of both lead to the same spot. If you have never experienced an 87th precinct novel you will devour this one and feel good knowing McBain has written about 30 others.

I read this a few weeks after it came out-it was my first McBain book, and it got me hooked on the rest. Carella, Hawes, Kling, Meyer, Brown, and all the rest are now favorites of mine. Ed McBain draws such vivid charcterizations of very different people-cops, hookers, rich brats, pushers, and even one crazy wack-a-loon. I guarantee if you read this novel, you'll be a McBain fan for life.

The police officers of the 87th precinct have a new homicide to work. The two detectives on the case, Carella and Hawes figure that this is an open and shut case. All the evidence points to an attempted robbery turned into the murder of a poor elderly citizen. The two detectives are a little surprised to learn the victim was Svetlana Dyalovich, a once renowned classical pianist. Still the case remains simple enough until the officers learn that Ms. Dyalovich had withdrawn $125,000 from her bank that very day she was murdered. There are suddenly too many suspects who might be willing to do anything to obtain such a quick windfall. ...... At about the same time, another officer from the precinct, "Fat Ollie" Weeks is investigating the killing of a pimp, drug dealer, and a hooker. As the evidence accumulates in this case, it crisscrosses with the Carella-Hawes investigation. The police better find their culprit soon because no one seems safe on the city streets as long as this killer is loose. ... The 87th precinct series has been on going for over four decades and still Ed McBain continues to write some of the freshest police procedurals on the market today. Fans of the series will love NOCTURNE because it is the usual fantastic gritty who-done-it that brings alive the city streets and the officers, criminals, and civilians living on them. For any mystery fan who has not read a McBain novel, this is a great place to start - it will be one reading experience that will prove to be worth your dead presidents. ........Harriet Klausner