Nocturne

A brand-new 87th Precinct novel from the Grand Master of suspense and author of Romance and Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear.

In Isola, the hours between midnight and dawn are a quiet time, when the loudest sounds are the garbage trucks hauling away the city's trash and filth. But for 87th Precinct detectives Carella and Hawes, the murder of an old woman makes the wee hours anything but peaceful -- especially when they learn she was one of the greatest concert pianists of the century, long vanished. Meanwhile, 88th Precinct cop Fat Ollie Weeks has his own early morning nightmare: he's on the trail of three prep school boys and a crack dealer who spent the evening carving up a hooker.
-- Ed McBain's previous 87th Precinct novel, Romance (Warner, 1995), shipped nearly 100,000 hardcover copies and the mass market edition (Warner, 3/96) has over 316,000 copies in print.
-- NBC's premiere outing with "Ed McBain's 87th Precinct", starring Randy Quaid, was a critical and commercial success. The second film adaptation, "Ice", aired in February 1996, and NBC has contracted for two more television films based on the series.