Vespers Author:Ed McBain On a beautiful evening in May, a young Catholic priest is brutally stabbed to death in his garden. A church practicing stanism is not four blocks away, and the cult sign of Baphomet is found scrawled on the garden gate in bright red paint. There are racial tensions in this part of the city. There are rumore of broken vows and shattered hopes.... more » The trail of blood leads back to a shadowy Easter Sunday, and events that are bewildering, frightening, and contradictory...
"People" summed up McBain's most recent work by saying, "The later McBain is much more complex, his writing leaner, his sense of story sharper, clearer. His cops have become seasoned men with eyes that have seen too much madness, the crime and the victim no longer clear portraits sketched in black and white."
His new novel, "Vespers", is not merely a dazzling thriller, but an honest and engrossing picture of what it is like to live in these times.« less