The big bad city - Ed McBain

The Squadroom of the 87th Precinct is under even more pressure than usual... There's the escalating menace of The Cookie Boy, a burglar with a taste for chocolate chip cookies and violence. There's the murdered woman whose outstanding physical characteristic is her breast implants. Which doesn't surprise anyone in the big bad city, until they find out she's a nun. And Detective Steve Carella has his own little problem: the man who murdered his father is back in town and he's decided the best way to secure his freedom is to murder Carella too...