It's Christmastime and Detective Carella gets assigned three murders―including a bestselling author of ghost stories―and is soon after ghosts, mediums, and a crazed killer."McBain forces us to think twice about every characte...

As Roger Broome tries to muster the courage to visit the 87th Precinct to talk about Molly, the woman he had met in a bar and took home, but Amelia, a pretty Spanish girl, leads him to forget his intentions, and with his every h...

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...

Jack McKinney is a bright-eyed twenty-year-old in the business of buying a snaean farm with forty grand in cash, and attorney Matthew Hope assists with the deal—until Jack's found dead in his condo, stabbed fourteen times. The ba...

When a client is murdered just before he's due to pay forty grand for a bean farm, lawyer Matthew Hope wanders into a world of shotguns, cowboys, dangerous farm beauties, and vanished cash.Praise for the Matthew Hope Mysteries:"A...

A piece of a torn picture in the hand of a dead man puts the detectives of the 87th Precinct on the trail of $750,000 missing from a six-year-old bank heist. "Imagine your favorite Law Order cast solving fresh mysteries into inf...

When a wealthy businessman is faced with a kidnapping, the ransom could ruin his biggest deal ever―unless Detective Steve Carella can find the culprits before the kidnapping turns to murder."McBain has the ability to make every...

When a bodyguard is hired to protect a successful businessman's wife, the detectives of the 87th Precinct are brought in to investigate why she has two near-fatal accidents on his watch. "The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great ...

The last thing Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct needs is the reappearance of the Deaf Man. He and his colleagues in the squadroom already have more than enough to cope with. Cryptic clues from his old adversary don't amuse him, but ...

The men and women of the 87th Precinct have their professional skills tested to the limit when several young women are raped multiple times by the same man and a serial killer who hangs his victims stalks the streets of the city...

Two perps―one a serial killer and the other a rapist who revisits his victims―test the limits of the 87th Precinct's detectives as they race to catch these maniacs loose on the city's streets."McBain has the ability to make e...

Suspicious deaths signal the arrival of springtime for the men at the 87th Precinct as they work on solving a suspicious double-suicide…and the nuances of love."The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary accomplishments o...

When a blind couple is murdered, Steve Carella's only clue is the ten-year-old dream one of the victims had, a dream that leads to a killer whose secret is worth murder."McBain has the ability to make every character believable�...

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 ...

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 ever...

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 liter...

A long shadow looms above her. Then a hand clamps over her mouth and a blade sinks into her back. Blood splatters on the film reel case beside her, and a young life is cut short. Lawyer Matthew Hope gets a call from Carlton Markham,...

When Victoria Miller and her backing band, Wheat, broke out with a string of gold records in the sixties, the sultry chanteuse seemed shy of crowds, refusing to perform in public. Years after her last success, Victoria makes her st...

The eyes of the neighborhood are on the detectives of the 87th and the criminal who challenged them as the city simmers with escalating gang violence."The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary accomplishments of the last h...

Sarah Whittaker is a green-eyed beauty with a love for Danny Kaye and white knights. Lawyer Matthew Hope can see all this clearly, despite the fact that whenever they meet the two are under constant surveillance by the mental institut...

Sarah Whittaker is a green-eyed beauty with a love for Danny Kaye and white knights. Lawyer Matthew Hope can see all this clearly, despite the fact that whenever they meet the two are under constant surveillance by the mental institut...

He'd been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, scraping to get by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man's life can always get worse - as Ray Stone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nig...

The members of the 87th Precinct go into action to stop a con man with a bloodthirsty taste for money--and murder. Reissue.

The morning after Jonathan Parrish's fortieth birthday party, the guest of honor is found lying dead in a pool of his own blood. Police arrive at the scene to find his older brother, Ralph, covered in red and clutching the murder w...

From the internationally admired creator of the 87th Precinct series come these tales featuring policemen and their work and displaying Ed McBain's inimitable talents in shorter form.In this collection of short stories, bestselling au...

When three Vietnamese immigrants are found murdered and savagely mutilated in Calusa, Florida, police finger wealthy landowner Stephen Leeds as the prime suspect. The now-deceased trio had recently been acquitted of raping Leeds's wif...

Hours before his sister's wedding, Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct learns that a killer is stalking the groom, and in order to learn the would-be murderer's identity, Steve must search through hundreds of wedding guests. Reis...

The murder of a priest in one of the 87th Precinct's parishes sends Detectives Carella and Hawes on a troubling investigation where everyone has a secret and the truth hides within the lies."Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast...

The murder of a young mistress in a penthouse apartment has Detectives Carella and Brown investigating a family with many motives…even as an unrelated murder impacts Carella personally."McBain has the ability to make every char...