Kiss audiobook

Two plots thread their way through this novel of the 87th Precinct. In the first, a beautiful woman named Emma Bowles appears at the station house to report that a man has attempted to kill her. Twice. Emma recognizes the attacker as a man who used to drive for the limo service that her husband uses. Detectives Steve Carella and Meyer Meyer go looking for the man Emma has accused only to find him shot to death and hanged, apparently for good measure, in the basement of the apartment house where he lived.Emma's husband, a wealthy stockbroker, professes to be horrified by the attempts on his wife's life and he insists on hiring a private detective from out of town to protect his wife, even though the man who attempted to kill her is now dead. All of this seems pretty strange to Steve Carella and as he and Meyer investigate the case, it becomes even more convoluted.Meanwhile, in a plot line carried over from the previous McBain novel, Widows, the man accused of killing Carella's father goes on trial. Against Carella's advice, his mother insists on attending the trial and the chapters detailing the trial are interspersed with the chapters describing the investigation. Both take a toll on Carella, but both are interesting and this is a very good entry in the 87th Precinct series.

This is McBain at the peak of his prowess. The 87th Precinct novels started in 1956, and they grew and matured as McBain grew and matured. At this point (1992), the books were rich with color, setting, character development, social commentary, and of course, clever and engrossing plots.In _Kiss_, it's comforting to see our friends: Carella, Meyer Meyer, Fat Ollie. McBain once said that he thought of the 87th Precinct as a family: It grows, it evolves, it changes. You can feel how deeply vested he is in these characters.There are are two plots in _Kiss_. One involves a married women who has been a victim of two murder attempts for no apparent reason. Not trusting the cops to pursue the matter, her husband hires a private detective--and the plot thickens considerably. The second involves the murder trial for the man who shot Carella's father. This family tragedy continues through three books in the series and reaches its sad conclusion here.I read crime novels a lot, I guess because I like the classic "good guys against the bad guys" scenario. I've read them all: Parker, Pronzini, Westlake, Block, Lutz, Grafton, et al. But McBain is simply the boss. As Robert Parker said, "It's hard to think of anyone better at what he does. In fact, it's impossible."

No 44 in the 87th Precinct series with two different narratives - a woman who had two attempts on her life, and the trial for the murder of Carella's father, murdered in the previous book. Gripping, and written in McBain's usual impressive style - credible, realistic, emotive, with depth.

Best yet. Some of the suspense reminded me of Jeffery Deaver's great books. My daughter let slip that one of the cops I like dies in one of the books, and I'm waiting with tenterhooks for this to happen.It hasn't happened yet, and she might have been teasing me. Only ten books to go!

Det. Steve Carella has tow things going in this novel - the trial of his father's killer and who is making attempts on Emma Bowles's life. Both plots twist and turn with interesting characters and dialogue as well as good investigative work.

I have read everyone of his books in this series and matthew hope series !! All of them are Outstanding and was heartbroken when he died .....

McBain is definitely on form with this entry in the series, back to the format of having more than one story going on at the same time. Here we have two attempted murders that involve into a complicated case while Carella is also dealing with the trial resulting from his murdered father in a previous book.In the end there was in interesting twist of the kind where I knew something was up but hadn't quite figured it out. Two stories along the theme of law and justice do not always equate to the same thing.

You know an author is good when another well respected author (Stuart Kaminsky) references one of the former's best loved series (87th precinct series) via his protagonist (Porfiry Rustnikov) multiple times. Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter) is the master of police procedurals, and even more so, writing believable dialogue. You always feel a part of the conversation when reading the exchanges between his characters. And many of my favorites were here-- detectives Carella and Meyer (whose first name is also Meyer), and even the love-to-hate-him, "Fat" Ollie Weeks. The story is two-pronged, dealing with murder for hire and the courtroom trial of the murderer of Carella's father. I thought this would be just a solid four star story until the last quarter, when McBain uncorks his full creative juice and winds things up in the most unexpected of ways. I closed this book grinning and muttering "that guy knows how to write a good book." And he does, indeed. Enjoy.

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!

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'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 great read and one that was hard to put down.

Re-reading an old classic. It's like meeting up with an old friend and instantly starting up where you left off. Even if years have passed in between.You haven't read it, you've got to find a copy and add it to your TBR pile. Always good to read the touch of a master writing in his genre.

Good old Ed McBain and his 87th Precinct books. A hard-boiled, down and dirty crime story.

It is so tempting to tell you about this story. But if I do, I know I'll let in something that will spoil it for you. Suffice it to say that this was a great read.

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).