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    Ghosts
    Ghosts
    Ghosts
    Audiobook7 hours

    Ghosts

    Written by Ed McBain

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A young woman stops at the grocery store after work, but she never makes it home—at least not all the way. She is stabbed to death in front of her building, her groceries strewn across the cold pavement. Upstairs her neighbor and popular ghost story author Gregory Craig lay dead as well, stabbed in his apartment. When Craig’s publisher is found murdered just days later, Detective Steve Carella has a deadly mystery on his hands, one unlike any he’s ever had before.

    Searching for clues, Carella instead finds Craig’s girlfriend, a medium whose spooky predictions keep him guessing. When some leads take him to a “haunted” house on the New England shores, strange events turn even stranger…until, back in the city, he turns up the crucial evidence he needs to track down the killer.

    A rare twist in Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series, Ghosts weaves the haunting uneasiness of the supernatural thriller with a classic, tightly plotted police procedural. Stephen King hails Ghosts as “excellent. It’s a fine—and creepy—mystery, and a fine novel.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 2, 2012
    ISBN9781455873692
    Ghosts
    Author

    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.

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    • 4/5
      “He told himself there couldn’t be anything like ghosts - but he had already seen five of them.” Poor Carella!Did a ghost kill a man who wrote a bestselling book about ghosts? That’s the case the detectives of the 87th have to deal with, four days before Christmas and Chanukah no less! It's a really cool read, and I think the first book in this series to cross into the supernatural! And I liked it! I wonder if there will be any more like this before the series ends. Mc Bain definitely made it work in this one!“Carella, not being psychic, didn’t know that everybody in the world had threesomes in mind this holiday season.”
    • 4/5
      This is McBain's British mystery moment, with famous authors, psychics, and as the title suggests...you know whats. It's fun, and in a departure for this series, almost totally focused on Detective Carella--more a Carella novel than an 87th Precinct play. Good plotting as usual, with a satisfying wind-up.
    • 4/5
      My first introduction to both the author and the 87th precinct series. I usually like to start a series on the first book but liked the sound of this so thought I would give it a try.A woman is found stabbed to death on an icy pavement, whilst inside the adjacent apartment a prominent writer has also been killed. It appears the woman may have been an innocent bystander who had to be killed to protect the killers identity. Steve Carella is assigned the case and soon meets the deceased writers partner, who just happens to be a medium and bares a more that fleeting resemblance to the detectives wife. She begins to have various supernatural predictions that seemingly start to come true. Can he solve the case?A really well written mystery with a touch of of the ghostly side thrown in for good measure. I have read that this was a bit of detour for the author and not something you would usually find in his books. A book of its time (early 80's) you will enjoy getting lost in the world of the 87th precinct. I enjoyed this so much I went out and bought a few more so I could start at the beginning.
    • 4/5
      Do you believe in ghosts? And, if you did, would you admit it? These are the questions that Homicide Detective Steve Carella has to live with after teaming up with a medium to investigate a series of murders. Even though the murderer turns out to the garden variety human, the idea that ghosts exist is introduced in this police thriller, and I don't know about you, but I believe!
    • 4/5
      Serviceable entry in the series made slightly remarkable by a turn to the supernatural. I feel like this was a trope throughout the 70s and 80s that non-supernatural cop shows would occasionally put out an episode with a sympathetic medium and leave unresolved whether or not vampires are real or some such. Not sure whether McBain is leading or following here, but, as usual, there’s enough other goodness to make it worth the ride.

      There’s also a drawn-out self examination by Meyer Meyer where he thinks about the kind of Jew he is and wants to be and lots of stuff about Christmas and Chanukah falling at the same time.
    • 2/5
      It was like a bad mix of "Law & Order" and the "X-Files" (which are wonderful when separate). Carella is investigating a murder of a man who writes about the supernatural, and the dead man's girlfriend is a medium. It was kind of silly.
    • 5/5
      A murder victim on the sidewalk, a ghost story writer found dead with nineteen stab wounds, mediums, haunted houses....can the detectives of the 87th cope? you bet they can!