Most serial killers don't shoot their victims twice in the face with a Glock. Most serials killers don't strike five times in two weeks. And most serial killers' prey share something more in common than just being over fifty years of age. But this is a serial killer who doesn't fit the profile, so why should the victims?

With trademark wit and sizzling dialogue, Ed McBain unravels a mystery that takes you to the outer edges of the city and examines the dreams we chase in the darkening hours, before the fiddlers have fled.

Ed McBain has written under various names more than eighty novels and several screenplays, including the one for Hitchcock’s film THE BIRDS. As Ed McBain, he is the author of the 87th Precinct novels, now in its 55th installment. He has won numerous awards, including the Mystery Writers of America Award and the Grand Master Award, Mystery Writers of America, 1986, for lifetime achievement. He is the first American to receive the British Crime writer’s Association Cartier Diamond Dagger.