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    Like Love
    Like Love
    Like Love
    Audiobook6 hours

    Like Love

    Written by Ed McBain

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    There’s a lot going on in the 87th Precinct this spring, and none of it is good. Jumpers on building ledges, a salesman torn apart by an explosion, and to cap it all off, they find the dead, half-naked bodies of Irene Thayer and Tommy Barlow in bed together. It has all the earmarks of a double suicide: a note, empty liquor bottles, closed windows, and the gas on the stove turned up. At least this one’s open and shut. Or is it?

    Something doesn’t sit right with the detectives at the 87th Precinct, so Steve Carella and his partner Cotton Hawes decide to give the case a once-over. Routine checks can turn up interesting facts. Like Irene’s mother, who has an insurance policy on her daughter. Or Irene’s grieving, cuckold husband who’s riding the ragged edge. Even Tommy’s brother. Problem is, in order to find a killer, you have to prove there was a murder…

    A complex, captivating thriller that probes the deep recesses of the human heart, Like Love is a bittersweet addition to Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series and a rare look inside the softer side of hardened detectives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 5, 2012
    ISBN9781455873845
    Like Love
    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
      “In suicide, as in baseball, it is sometimes difficult to tell who is who or what is what without a scorecard.”So, have the men of the 87th caught a case that is a double suicide or is it a homicide? This story is a nice bounce back from the previous novel. It's quick paced, and tightly written, with some dang good dialogue to boot! And I love the way the crime was solved - Christine Maxwell's strip tease!“The facts of life in the 87th Precinct were too often the facts of death.”
    • 4/5
      Another apparent suicide that begins to look more and more like suicide is the main focus of this entry in the 87th Precinct series, a plot slightly reminiscent of The Pusher. Spring brings with it acts of love - and like love - and acts of murder and vengeance that have the boys tracking down the usual leads and red herrings - and be prepared for more forensic lectures than you've seen since Give the Boys a Great Big Hand. If this book has any flaw, it's that McBain sets up three equally plausible suspects that seem to fit each additional clue perfectly, a rather blatant attempt to keep the reader guessing until the final reveal - not a bad situation, but not one of his stronger mysteries. This entry in the series finds Carella more and more emotionally distraught over the senseless acts of violence and self abuse they uncover, while Kling continues to react to the death of Claire by shedding his easy-going demeanor for a more hard-nosed attitude. McBain's better Precinct novels are the ones that explore various aspects of a certain theme, and Like Love stands out as a perfect example.
    • 4/5
      Another fine 87th precinct procedural. This time the boys are investigating a seeming suicide. Bert Kling is still mourning. Cotton seems like he may be on the verge of settling down and Steve gets the crap kicked out of him again. Super stuff.
    • 3/5
      It's spring, when a policeman's fancy turns to ... well, investigating crime. Like every other season, I guess. Anyway, we open with Steve Carella leaning out a window, trying to convince a young woman not to jump to her death. He fails. Not long after, he and Cotton Hawes are called in to investigate an apparent double suicide, a couple found in bed with a suicide note ("we can't go on, etc.") in an apartment filled with gas. It seems nearly as straightforward as that jumper in the opening chapter, so why are Carella and Hawes reluctant to close the file and call it suicide? It's that old cop intuition, and of course it turns out to be right because otherwise there wouldn't be a book. The plot's interesting but not quite as compelling as some earlier entries in the series. We do get some personal time with the squad at the 87th Precinct: Cotton's flirtation with his girlfriend is becoming serious and Bert Kling continues to mourn his murdered girlfriend. I was disappointed not to get even a cameo appearance from Carella's wife Teddy, who is delightful. Maybe in the next one.