Vespers (87th Precinct) Audio CD – Unabridged, 18 Dec. 2012

What fascinates me about McBain is that he started writing this series decades ago and the characters are all still roughly the same age and alive! The crimes move with the times, the people don't. This is a modern tale and I prefer the more old fashioned ones, but the humour is still there to leaven the sometimes sickening violence. The whole Satanic Cult/Black Mass side of things was somewhat ridiculous, but if taken with a pinch of salt doesn't detract from the pleasure of reading a fun book with firmly established and well loved characters in it.

Always well written. Ed McBain was one of the all time great crime writers. I could read his books over and over and indeed have