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Kiss (87th Precinct #44)
by
Ed McBain
Ed McBain's astonishing 87th-Precinct series continues with a hard look at what passes for love in a city grown used to crimes of passion. When a beautiful blonde tells Detective Steve Carella that her husband's former chauffeur has made two attempts on her life, Carella immediately begins tracking her assailant -- only to find him far uptown, hanging from a basement pipe,...more
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Published
January 28th 1996
by Media Books Audio Publishing
(first published 1992)
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Another good book in the series. In this one, a woman survives two murder attempts; the man she says tried to kill her winds up dead. That should be the end of her problems, but is it? Along with that story, we have the trial for the man who killed Detective Steve Carella's father in the last book. Interesting comparison of the investigation that goes on before the arrest and the trial that follows after. The story of the trial wasn't as gripping as the story in the previous book ("Widows") in w...more
I've always enjoyed Ed McBain (AKA Evan Hunter) and this novel of the 87th Precinct is no different.
What is hard to read is that this book deals with the follow up of the murder of Steve Carella's father and the apprehension of the suspect. In this, as he and his partner Meyer Meyer investigate a murder of a hit man/limo driver and gather information about the second assassin, Carella attends the trial of his father's murderer. Both show you the ins and out, and traps within a murder case. A gre...more
What is hard to read is that this book deals with the follow up of the murder of Steve Carella's father and the apprehension of the suspect. In this, as he and his partner Meyer Meyer investigate a murder of a hit man/limo driver and gather information about the second assassin, Carella attends the trial of his father's murderer. Both show you the ins and out, and traps within a murder case. A gre...more
Mar 24, 2013
Vannessagrace Vannessagrace
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After a killer made several attempts to kill a woman, she asked the officers at the 87th Precinct for help and her husband hired a bodyguard to protect her. There is more than meets the eye to the murder attempts on the woman’s life. Ed McBain is one of the kings when it comes to writing police crime thrillers! David Colacci’s storytelling performance added to making Kiss a great read!
Ed McBain's astonishing 87th-Precinct series continues with a hard look at what passes for love in a city grown used to crimes of passion. When a beautiful blonde tells Detective Steve Carella that her husband's former chauffeur has made two attempts on her life, Carella immediately begins tracking her assailant -- only to find him far uptown, hanging from a basement pipe, a bullet in his head. Who killed the chauffeur? And why, now that her would-be murderer is dead, does the blonde's wealthy h...more
Ed McBain is a really good writer. I probably like his 87th Precinct stories for the same reasons (whatever they are) I like the TV show Law and Order about NYC homicide detectives.
Kiss is about crimes of passion and crimes for money, and the virtues and foibles of very real cops. There's also a song called Kiss.
Kiss is about crimes of passion and crimes for money, and the virtues and foibles of very real cops. There's also a song called Kiss.
Ed McBain started the 87th Precinct Series in 1956 with Cop Hater. And averaged at least one a year until his death about fifty years later. I've read a couple and they are gripping. I am looking forward to this one. :-)
Aug 07, 2012
Phillip Frey
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone who likes hard-boiled crime stories.
Good old Ed McBain and his 87th Precinct books. A hard-boiled, down and dirty crime story.
I really liked this story it was very good. More true to life which is what I like.
Great read! I need to read a lot more of Ed McBain!!!!
A satisfying procedural with crossing storylines. Murder, mayhem and passion meet in the 87th Precinct Detective Squad.
Another satisfying police procedural.
Superb twist! Will have to read McBain's other work!
Typical of the series.
pessimo
Always good to revisit the 87th Precinct, Carella, Meyer, Hawes et al.
Two attempts have been made on the life of a beautiful woman despite her husband's hired security. Detective Carella has to deal with the cheating husband and the wife's infatuation with himself as he tries to protect her.
I actually attended a book reading when this book was released. I still have my copy which was autographed by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter).
Another fine effort by the stalwart procedural author McBain. Interesting final twist in the last scene as to who gets the last laugh.
Mar 29, 2010
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I don't *think* I've read this one, but I've read so many 87th Precinct novels over the years that it's sometimes hard to tell.
I've enjoyed MANY of the 87th precinct mysteries. The later ones often got a bit gory for me.
Short. Simple. Sadistic.
The story was very bare-boned, but overall I liked it.
The story was very bare-boned, but overall I liked it.
M McB
May 14, 2013
Peg Middleton
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Ed McBain is a pseudonym of Evan Hunter, who was born and raised as Salvatore Lombino in New York City, living in East Harlem until the age of 12, at which point his family moved to the Bronx. He attended Olinville Junior High School, then Evander Childs High School, before winning an Art Students League scholarship. Later, he was admitted as an art student at Cooper Union.
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