Lightning (1984)

by Ed McBain

Series: 87th Precinct (37)

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87e District, tome 6 by Ed McBain

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87th Precinct (37)

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Lightning

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Lightning

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1984

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Lightning strikes with repeated terror as a diabolical hangman murderer leaves one pretty coed after another dangling from the city's lampposts. It's up to Carella and the dedicated detectives of the 87th Precinct to fathom the darkness of a criminal's twisted mind.

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Two women are found murdered, several other young women are raped two or three times by the same man, and the men and women of the 87th precinct have their professional skills tested to the limit.