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    Widows
    Widows
    Widows
    Audiobook11 hours

    Widows

    Written by Ed McBain

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Another summer. Another heat wave. And another murder so brutal it’s hard to fathom the cruelty that stalks the city’s streets. When Susan Brauer was stabbed thirty-two times with a paring knife, Detectives Carella and Brown find clues that connect her to the senior partner of a prestigious law firm. That connection doesn’t happen, however, until he is dead on a city sidewalk.

    An unrelated murder—that of Carella’s own father—has turned the detective’s world upside down, and the 45th Precinct’s investigation is hitting dead ends faster than a bullet turns a wife into a widow. But the lawyer has left behind a wife, an ex-wife, two grown daughters, and plenty of hidden animosities to fill a detective’s notebook. For the men who patrol the city, their personal lives take a back seat no matter how many surprises—and sorrows—they find along the way.

    A probing, emotionally rich addition to bestselling author Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series, Widows peels back the layers of protagonist Steve Carella’s past to deliver a procedural of extraordinary depth and resonance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9781455873968
    Widows
    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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      A beautiful young woman and an older man, both dead in a penthouse apartment - she's been stabbed 32 times, he's been shot four times. The man leaves four grieving women - his present wife, his ex-wife and two daughters; four mourners, four suspects. Another cracking tale from the 87th Precinct,; McBain is the master of all police procedural fiction.