Widows
By Ed McBain
1991
First Published
3.86
Average Rating
327
Number of Pages
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The beautiful blonde in the penthouse apartment was dead, her face and body laced with slashes from a paring knife—grisly evidence of the terrible things the city can do to pretty young women. What sordid web of money, sex, and greed had ensnared Susan Brauer? The stack of unsigned erotic letters in her possession was the first clue. Then the murder of Susan's lover, a married lawyer in his sixties, leads the cops of the 87th to the women left behind: the lawyer's wife, his ex, his daughters. And for Detective Carella, his own father's senseless death in a bakery holdup sears through the intense summer heat—and sends him on a fevered hunt for the one who made his mother a widow and shrouded his family in grief.
Avg Rating
3.86
Number of Ratings
1,200
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
27%
2 STARS
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Author
Ed McBain
Author · 87 books
"Ed McBain" is one of the pen names of American author and screenwriter Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005), who legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956. He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Dean Hudson, Evan Hunter, and Richard Marsten.
