Jigsaw | 
panThe main storyline is OK — a heist plot with a photo cut into pieces like a jigsaw puzzle, and you get to see the actual jigsaw puzzles in the text. But a gratuitous rape scene and stereotyping of gay people and Black people made for uncomfortable reading. The book then self-destructed after I read it, fortunately.
pickWe're up to around 1970 now and I believe this is the first time that Det. Artie Brown is the lead alongside Carella. McBain is reliably good on race and Brown even gets to play act some Southern Ebonics to scare a feeble accomplice from Atlanta into confessing.
Not quite as progressive when it comes to describing homosexuals but it's early days yet.
