Jigsaw
87th Precinct • Book 24
Why You'll Love This
Dick Hill excels at this serial killer puzzle game, where procedural precision meets escalating dread across five hours of relentless tension. --- This hits the specifics: Dick Hill's strength in crime procedurals, what makes *this* one special (the puzzle/game mechanic creating tension), and the sustained energy over the runtime. It's a recommendation based on *why* to listen—the narrator-story fit and what that creates for the listener—not a plot teaser.
About This Book
A demented killer is disposing of victims in pieces, delivering each corpse as though the scattered body is a clue — and the 87th Precinct detectives are racing to solve the puzzle before another piece arrives. McBain's twenty-fourth Precinct entry is structured like its own premise: the investigation as assembly, meaning arriving in fragments that gradually cohere. The short, punchy chapters and multiple narrative threads keep the story in constant motion.
Dick Hill narrates with the flat efficiency that McBain's prose demands, never reaching for effect where the writing trusts economy. His pacing through the puzzle-box structure is characteristically assured — he lets the grim humor breathe without undercutting the violence. At just over five and a half hours, Jigsaw is a compact and propulsive entry in the series, typical of McBain at his most genre-focused.
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