Criminal Conversation

The author of the 87th Precinct mysteries, written under the pseudonym Ed McBain, presents this psychologically charged novel. A young district attorney, investigating a man who has recently taken control of a powerful Mafia family, sets up elaborate surveillance, including wire taps in the mobster's apartment. Listening to the tapes, the D.A. becomes obsessed with the mobster's mistress. He knows the woman only by her voice--or doesn't he? (July)