Calypso - 87th Precinct Author:Ed McBain A calypso singer fresh off a gig walks home in a downpour, when shots tear through his head like steel rain. A hooker out on the street in the same miserable weather doesn?t know her final trick will be her last. What brings these two sad ends together?the same gun. — It is stormy in the 87th Precinct and with every hour that passes, every minute... more » the killer stays on the loose, the trail is only going to get colder. But that first clue always leads to another, and Detectives Carella and Meyer find themselves in a dark, twisted world of sex and sadism that ripples through the city?s veins like a virus. If they don?t find their man soon, the sickness will turn deadly again?and again?and again?
Taut and relentless with the brute force of a bullet to bone, Calypso is one of the darkest entries in bestselling author Ed McBain?s 87th Precinct series.« less
I've been reading the 87th Precinct novels in chronological order. I never read McBain in my earlier years, so I'm reading them now. This one is especially good - and particularly grisly, even for McBain.