Lullaby n09Title: Lullaby ISBN: 9780330308229 Author: Ed McBain Rating: 3. 81 (10 ratings, 2 reviews) 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,
ancient weapon of immense power hidden in a lost city deep in the African jungle
the best crime novelists (and Linwood Barclay is certainly among their number) are well aware that most of the classic plots have been utilised again and again
murderous dives
enchanced by Simon Prebble's assured narration
hunting with a bloodlust that shatters all the conventional wisdom on how serial killers operate
The dead journalist had left the islands years before to pursue his writing career
so she must find a way to reveal them before it's too late
and the mysterious A P Warne of whom there is no sight
So it serves him right when he runs into Tabitha Devereaux
who punishes her daughter for her own sense of alienation and inadequacy while doting on her sons
But never before has the body on the medical examiner's table been her own
It was a game of happy families
