The squadroom at 5:15 on New Year's morning looked much as it did on any other day...
But an exceptionally heinous crime was already sending a wave of outrage through even the veteran cops of the 87th Precinct: a wealthy couple, returning home from New Year's festivities, discovered their baby [...]

Ed McBain - den moderna polisromanens fader
Alice Glendenning trodde att hon förlorat allt när maken Eddies segelbåt påträffades tom i Mexikanska golfen. Men det skulle bli värre ... Åtta månader har gått och Alice och hennes två barn försöker komma tillrätta med sin nya tillvaro. [...]

""I have your children.
Don't call the police, or they'll die.""
It's a nightmare no parent should ever endure. Especially Alice Glendenning, a South Florida real estate agent who hasn't managed to sell a single home -- or collect any insurance money -- after her husband's fatal boating ac[...]

Benjamin Thorpe is married, a father, a successful Los Angeles architect ' and a man obsessed. Alone in New York City on business, he spends the empty hours of the night in a compulsive search for female companionship. His dizzying descent leads to an early morning confrontation in a mid-town brothe[...]

Diva disappeared ...This was supposed to be the night that launched a new pop idol into the firmament. Tamar Valparaiso has it all: young and beautiful with the body and voice of an angel. And just as importantly she is going to hit all the right demographics. With a Mexican father she's going to wa[...]

It started with the blind violinist - shot twice through the head at point-blank range in the alley outside his dingy restaurant. But it's only when the omelette lady gets shot with the same gun in the same way twenty-four hours later that the 87th Precinct really starts to sit up and take notice. B[...]

The kidnapping was audacious, and there were plenty of witnesses... But no one attending the dazzling launch party for up-and-coming pop idol Tamar Valparaiso knew what they were seeing when, halfway through her performance, masked men whisked the sexy young singer off a luxury yacht and into a wai[...]

Murder is in season as a brutal winter grips the city, and the detectives of the 87th Precinct must fight the elements and turn up the heat to find a ruthless killer. Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries into infinity, with no re-runs, and you have some sense of McBain's gr[...]

Her former lovers are dying one by one, and beautiful Marilyn Hollis is a top suspect. Smitten Detective Willis tries to believe in her innocence, until he begins to have his doubts. The 87th Precinct is] one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.? ? Pete Hamill, Newsday Mc[...]

When a sniper begins gunning down cops from the 87th Precinct in cold blood, it's up to Detective Steve Carella to sort out who and why ? before he finds himself on the wrong end of the killer's .45. McBain has the ability to make every character believable ? which few writers these days can do.? ? [...]

It's like an old-time gangster movie: a speeding car, a blazing gun? and suddenly a guy walking down the street without a care in the world is lying in the gutter without a head on his shoulders. But who pulled the high-powered trigger that turned Sy Kramer from a blackmailer into a chalk outline? W[...]