The Big Bad City by 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...