Sinossi
Sono le due e mezza del primo dell'anno, quando un terribile delitto scuote alle fondamenta l'87° Distretto. Rientrando a casa da una festa, una delle coppie più abbienti di Isoal trova la figlioletta di pochi mesi morta nella culla: è stata soffocata con un cuscino. Lì accanto giace la baby-sitter, con un coltello conficcato nel petto. Secondo il referto dell'autopsia, il suo corpo presenta tracce di un recente rapporto sessuale. I primi sospetti ricadono sull'ex fidanzato della ragazza, che però sembra scomparso nel nulla. In realtà ha abbandonato l'università e si è rifugiato da un'amante più vecchia, ma giura di non essere stato lui a uccidere Annie e la piccola. E mentre Carella e Meyer fanno carte false per scovare il colpevole, l'agente Kling si ritrova sotto il fuoco incrociato di una faida tra bande rivali, determinate a sconvolgere la metropoli.
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- Pagine: 400
- Data di uscita: 02-04-2019
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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 Leggi tutto
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 Leggi tutto
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 Leggi tutto
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 Leggi tutto
Some of the books in this series are focused on just one case, while others have a couple of related crimes. This one follows the latter path, but for me there was just too much going on. Following along with all the red herrings and leads that went nowhere became a bit of a chore by the three quart Leggi tutto
One of the better ones. Carella and Meyer are called to the scene of a double murder: a young infant and her babysitter, and the city is outraged. Meanwhile, Kling saves the life of an ungrateful Puerto Rican from a Jamaican gang, and gets involved in stopping a major drug shipment and preventing a
“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 Leggi tutto
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