Sadie When She Died

　　八十七分局的警員接獲某男子的報案，說自己的妻子慘遭殺害，警員趕到現場，面對該男子的冷酷與冷靜深感驚訝。嫌犯很快就被抓到而且俯首認罪，然而憑著職業性的敏銳嗅覺，資深警員卡瑞拉始終覺得真正的兇手另有其人，而那個人亦有意無意地暗示自己的涉案，一場兇嫌與警探的心戰遊戲於焉展開。除了破案過程，本書生動地描寫警務人員的工作及個人生活樣態，是警察辦案程序小說的精采示範，不可不看。

　　What could be easier? He had a confessed killer, clear fingerprints, and a witness. Everything was sewed up tight. Or was it Detective Steve Carella could not forget Gerald Fletcher standing beside the body of his beautiful wife, Sarah, announcing how glad he was that someone had stabbed her. And when Fletcher kept wining and dining him, flattering and heckling him, tossing him clue after clue, Carella could sniff that there was more to Sarah's death than just bungled burglary. When Sarah's little black book turned up a mile-long record of her nocturnal adventures, Carella knew it was time to call in the boys of the 87th, to find out why everyone was calling her Sadie when she died.