Lullaby, Ed McBain
Lullaby, Ed McBain
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Lullaby

Author: Ed McBain

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/11/2012

Synopsis

A babysitter and the child she is watching are murdered on New Year’s Eve—just as a gang war over drug trafficking erupts and puts one of the detectives of the 87th Precinct in mortal danger.“McBain has the ability to make every character believable—which few writers these days can do.” —Associated Press“The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century.” —Pete Hamill, Newsday

About Ed McBain

Ed McBain, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award, was also the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from the more than fifty titles in the 87th Precinct series (including the Edgar Award–nominated Money, Money, Money) to the bestselling novels written under his own name, Evan Hunter—including The Blackboard Jungle (now in a fiftieth anniversary edition from Pocket Books) and Criminal Conversation. Fiddlers, his final 87th Precinct novel, was recently published in hardcover. Writing as both Ed McBain and Evan Hunter, he broke new ground with Candyland, a novel in two parts. He also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. He died in 2005.Visit EdMcBain.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

In the forty-first installment of Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series, the detectives of the 87th ring in the New Year with a particularly gruesome crime when a couple returns home from a New Year’s Eve party to find the sixteen-year-old babysitter knifed to death and their baby smothered. The likelies......more

Goodreads review by Jenny

McBain is a genius at dialogue - he writes it like no one else. This is party why I enjoy his books - they move quickly and I enjoy the banter between characters. This book was great until about the last 50 pages where the drug deal started taking over. I may have been reading the book when I was too......more

Goodreads review by Shannon

Starts strong with the heinous double murder of a teenage babysitter and her infant charge. The secondary plot about drug dealers seemed disjointed from the primary plot, but it's been awhile since I read a McBain, and it is later in the series, so maybe this was a normal thing in order to involve a......more

Goodreads review by David

A dark book, starting in the early hours of a New year with Carella and Meyer catching the murder of a baby and her babysitter, an armed robbery in the same building and Kling interrupting a beating which turns out to be part of a complex series of violent gang battles over a major drug deal. Writte......more

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