Ed McBain: Lullaby (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
New Year's Day brings the dawn of a new year and the hope of better days to come. But for a couple who returns home from a New Year's Eve party in the early morning hours to find their babysitter and child murdered, that hope is suddenly, brutally gone. For Detectives Carella and Meyer, the sight of the crime scene hits with magnum force, their own children at home safe in their beds.

Detective Kling rings in the New Year with an investigation into drug trafficking that erupts into a deadly turf war among rival gangs. They will stop at nothing to kill each other to achieve supremacy -- and even kill a detective in the bargain.

The fortieth installment in what iconic writer Stephen King calls "inarguably the best series of police procedural novels ever written," Lullaby is Ed McBain at his groundbreaking best.

Ed McBain: Lullaby. An 87th Precinct Novel. Thomas & Mercer, ISBN: 9781612181783 (March, 2012), 356 p., $13.95.

Ed McBain: Lullaby (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
The squadroom at 5:15 on New Year's morning looked much as it did on any other day...
But an exceptionally heinous crime was already sending a wave of outrage through even the veteran cops of the 87th Precinct: a wealthy couple, returning home from New Year's festivities, discovered their baby -- and the infant's teenage sitter -- murdered. Parents themselves, detectives Carella and Meyer resolve to bring in the perpetrator at any cost. Meanwhile, gang warfare is overtaking the city's streets, threatening its very foundation. A sinister song of death and destruction echoes through the 87th, and it isn't "Auld Lang Syne."

Ed McBain: Lullaby. A Novel of the 87th Precinct. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0743470745 (September, 2004), 397 p., $7.99.

Ed McBain: Lullaby (UK 1990)

From the Publisher:
There's a killer on the loose. The kind that likes sticking knives into teenage girls -- and snuffing out babies.
It all adds up to the kind of double trouble that Detectives Carella and Meyer could do without. But they know that with this particular species of sleazeball psycho at large they'll soon have the entire city screaming for an arrest.

However, there's still plenty of the weird stuff to occupy the other boys in the 87th Precinct. Take Kling. Somehow he seems to have ended up the wrong side of a very heavy gang of Jamaicans. That's of course when they're taking time out from trying to con certain Colombian and Chinese Businessmen. The kind of guys that make Ghengis Khan look like Mother Theresa...

All this and more with the new year barely in its stride. It hardly seemed fair.

'The best writer there is on the business of being a cop' THE TIMES

Ed McBain: Lullaby. The new 87th Precinct Novel. Pan Books, ISBN: 033030822X (April, 1990 - 4th printing, no date given), 352 p., £3.99.

Ed McBain: Lullaby (USA 1990)

From the Publisher:
"SHARP, SUSPENSEFUL, KNOWLEDGEABLE, WITTY AND WHOLLY INVOLVING... A VERY DIFFICULT BOOK TO PUT DOWN" -- STEPHEN KING, AUTHOR OF THE TOMMYKNOCKERS

There have been far happier New Year's for the beleaguered cops of the 87th Precinct.
A wealthy young couple has returned home from a party to discover their babysitter and her infant charge savagely murdered. While out in the streets, warring gangs prepare to rip the city to pieces, arming up to ring in the new with blood and fire. There's a sinister song of death and destruction echoing throughout the 87th on this fearful First -- and it isn't Auld Lang Syne!

Ed McBain: Lullaby. A new 87th Precinct Novel. Avon Books, ISBN: 038070384X (January, 1990), 343 p., $4.95.