I hope you like the series! It is one of the really classic police procedural series, with a wide variety of cases, some big and some small, and lots of background storylines about the detectives - and even a few of the criminals. I read pretty much all of them in DTB days, in whatever order I found them in various used bookstores, and I think you're wise to read in order. Although each book does stand alone, lots of minor storylines continue over more than one book, so I would sometimes find myself knowing something I probably shouldn't, or wondering a bit about how some situation arose. Certainly not fatal to read out of order, but more enjoyable in order.
I haven't seen the movie, but IMS,
King's Ransom is the one with the two boys (???), and if so, it raises an interesting ethical issue. I can imagine that it made a pretty good movie! Not all of the books in the series are going to pose such knotty issues to think about though...
I hadn't realized that the audiobooks were that inexpensive. I'm not a big consumer of audiobooks, but it might be enjoyable to pick up a few at those prices, even just to listen to while doing chores around the house. Thanks for the tip!
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I haven't read any of them yet, so I'm restricting myself to the first 12, for no particular reason at all. I believe I have all of them except for #'s 6 (Killer's Payoff) and 12 (The Heckler).
I first became interested in the books when I saw the Akira Kurosawa movie High and Low, which was loosely based on book #10 (King's Ransom).
I also had someone give me the 87th Precinct TV series on DVD, as a gift. |