On the 29th I reread Ed Mcbain's "Lullaby". A six month old baby and her 16 year old babysitter are killed on New Year's Eve, and the detectives have to figure out which of the victims was the target in order to zero on in on the killer. At first it seems like the sitter, since who would want to kill a little baby? But then they learn the baby was adopted, and the biological mother is murdered all the way across the country in Seattle. Kling gets tied up in a big drug deal about to go down, and Eileen starts seeing a psychologist to deal with the rape and later killing of a rapist suspect while on the job.
On the 31st I reread Ed Mcbain's "Romance", which was very complex, lots of things going on to throw you off track. An actress named Michelle is starring in a play in which the character she plays is hurt in a stabbing, and a detective investigates who would want to try to kill her. Michelle comes to the 87th to tell the detectives that someone has been threatening her, and then she, too, is stabbed, although it's very minor. It does however generate some much needed publicity for the crappy little play she is starring in. A few days later she is stabbed again, and this time it's fatal. Her agent/boyfriend is arrested after admitting they staged the first stabbing but swears he had nothing to do with the fatal one. He is in jail when another member of the crew is killed--pushed out of a window, and made to look like a suicide.
Yesterday I reread Ed McBain's "The Big, Bad City". Carella and Brown are investigating the murder of a nun who used to be a singer in a rock band and now it looks like she is being blackmailed. Meyer, Kling, Parker, and Willis are tied up in what was originally a burglary case where the "Cookie Boy" leaves a package of cookies at the apartments he rips off, but then two people show up murdered in one. While all this is going on, Sonny Cole, the man who killed Carella's father but got off at the trial in "Kiss" is stalking Carella, intent on killing him.
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