Ed McBain: Ice (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
Snow whips through the city's streets like lethal daggers when a young actress leaves the theater after her latest performance. She walks home instead of taking the subway, and soon the snow on the ground is stained red with her blood. A cold, hard winter is blowing in, and it's bringing greed and murder.

For Detectives Carella, Kling, Meyer, and Brown, the sudden storm that has covered the city in a suffocating sheet of ice is only the beginning of their problems. From a multimillion-dollar showbiz scam and diamonds spilling out of a dead man's vest to a cold-hearted rapist prowling the streets and a stone-cold murderer on the loose, the frozen grip of fear is strangling the city. It is up to the men of the 87th to bring the heat.

Bestselling author Ed McBain pulls out all the stops in Ice, a classic installment of his famed 87th Precinct series that blends intense plotting, biting dialogue, and gripping suspense. The New Yorker hails Ice as "a real stunner!"

Ed McBain: Ice. An 87th Precinct Novel. Thomas & Mercer, ISBN: 9781612181677 (March, 2012), 370 p., $13.95.

Ed McBain: Ice (UK 2002)

From the Publisher:
Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. Detectives Carella, Kling, Meyer and Brown are learning all about ice; in a multimillion-dollar showbiz scam, in the glittering diamonds that spill out of a dead man's vest, in the veins of a small-time pusher. As the cops scramble for evidence, as the city shivers, a killer is one step ahead, and the heat is still on.

'Great approach, great attitude, terrific style, strong plots, excellent dialogue, sense of place and sense of reality' -- ELMORE LEONARD
'Stunning... Ed McBain is an acknowledged master' -- NEWSWEEK
'I never read McBain without the awful thought that I still have an awful lot to learn. And when you think you're catching up, he gets better' -- TONY HILLERMAN

MASTERWORKS is a library of the greatest crime fiction ever written, chosen with the help of today's leading crimewriters and critics. However they are categorised -- hard-boiled, suspense, police procedural -- all books in the series are the best of their kind.

Ed McBain: Ice. An 87th Precinct Novel. Orion, ISBN: 0752847716 (March, 2002), Crime Masterworks 8, 310 p., £6.99.

Ed McBain: Ice (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
The path to the truth is as slippery as ice in a city whose heart is just as cold. The cops of this precinct know that anyone can be a victim. Anyone can be a perp. And killers keep killing until you put them on...

Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. Detectives Carella, Kling.
Meyer, and Brown are learning all about ice: in a multimillion-dollar showbiz scam, in the glittering diamonds that spill out of a dead man's vest, in the veins of a small-time pusher. As the cops scramble for evidence, as the city shivers, a killer is one step ahead, and the heat is still on.

"A REAL STUNNER." - The New Yorker
"ICE IS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BEST WRITER OF POLICE PROCEDURALS WORKING TODAY." - Houston Chronicle

Ed McBain: Ice. The 87th Precinct. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446603902 (March, 1996), 317 p., $5.99.

Ed McBain: Ice (UK 1984)

From the Publisher:
'Police procedural at its very best' -- THE OBSERVER
It was snowing again on the frozen sidewalks, when the girl dancer walked out of the stage door and straight into the gunsight of the man hidden in the nearby doorway.

When they pulled the .38 Smith and Wesson slug out of her corpse, Ballistics noticed that in matched the one they'd found in Puerto Ricar dope dealer-known in the trade as El Snorto-just three days before.

Carella knew which direction he was taking, even if it took one more killing to prove his point. Ice means winter on the Precinct streets and ice means killing. But ice means somethin else, every bit as deadly...

'Expertly crafted and the dialogue is masterly' -- THE GUARDIAN

Ed McBain: Ice. An 87th Precinct Myster. Pan Books, ISBN: 0330282964 (June, 1984), 292 p., £1.95.

Ed McBain: Ice (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
"A REAL STUNNER!" -- THE NEW YORKER
ICE... is the bone-chilling fear that grips a beautiful policewoman playing decoy to catch a vicious rapist.
ICE... is what spills from a diamond dealer's pockets as his life's blood runs red onto the frozen street.
ICE... is the millions in cold cash grabbed in a glitzy show-biz snow scam.
ICE... is the cool killing of a glamorous dancer and a two-bit drug dealer, people who live worlds apart, but who die by the same gun.

"ICE IS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BEST WRITER OF POLICE PROCEDURALS WORKING TODAY." -- HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"A TAUT AND TOTALLY ABSORBING THRILLER." -- COSMOPOLITAN
"SAMPLE MCBAIN'S NOVELS AND YOU'LL BECOME ADDICTED; IF ALREADY AN ADDICT, YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED." -- KANSAS CITY STAR
SELECTED BY THE LITERARY GUILD AND THE MYSTERY GUILD

Ed McBain: Ice. The New 87th Precinct Thriller. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380671085 (April, 1984), 317 p., $2.95.

Ed McBain: Ice (USA 1983)

From the Publisher:
Here is Ed McBain's most ambitious and far-reaching novel of the famed 87th Precinct.
But Ice goes beyond the world of the 87th Precinct.
Ice transcends the genre of crime fiction... as Le Carré's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold did the novel of espionage.
Ice is Ed McBain's most searching and compelling novel... of justice triumphant over the savage law of the city streets... of men and women who wear the golden detective shield with pride, honor and dedication.

Ed McBain has written his most masterly story of crime and detection, life and sudden death in the chillingly realistic world of the 87th Precinct, and beyond.

ED McBAIN's bestselling novels of the 87th Precinct have won national and international acclaim. He makes his home in Norwalk, Connecticut, and Sarasota, Florida, where he is also known as the novelist Evan Hunter.

Ed McBain: Ice. A major new novel about the world of the 87th Precinct. Arbor House, ISBN: 0877954682 (March, 1983), 317 p., $15.50.