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The Boxer and the Spy
Robert B. Parker
Philomel, 2008
Great YA Mystery for Reluctant Readers!
Robert B. Parker's sophomore effort into YA fiction delivers more action and better pacing than his first. THE BOXER AND THE SPY is also set in today's world rather than the 1940s as EDENVILLE OWLS was. As an older reader who's been reading Parker's books since the ...
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High Profile (Jesse Stone)
Robert B. Parker
Berkley, 2008
Stronger entry in Parker's Stone series
Robert Parker is one of those guys who writes so fast that he's got to have several series of books in order to keep from tiring out his main character. After all, his mainstay, Spenser, is the same age as Parker. Back 10 or 15 books ago, Spenser used to mention that ...
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Blue Screen (Sunny Randall)
Robert B. Parker
Berkley, 2007
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Turns out I had already read this book. I read it cover to cover anyway.
As my former boss (Ted Ahlgren) always told me, "Cremin, you really only need three books." That is, if you have a memory like Ted and me.
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Stranger in Paradise (Jesse Stone Novels)
Robert B. Parker
Putnam Adult, 2008
Maybe the best of the Stone series...
Perhaps I was just in the right mood, but I devoured this one in two sittings, and the break I took in order to go to sleep was done regretfully. For a change, the actual suspense/mystery/thriller plot was better than the personal relationships depicted. Thus, it ...
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Hundred-Dollar Baby (Spenser)
Robert B. Parker
Berkley, 2007
Like an old pair of jeans that feel comfy
Spenser has by now gotten so easy to read that you almost don't have to concentrate. You wonder if the author knows this: at one point in Hundred-dollar Baby Spenser says something about not having to look at the stuff in his apartment. Things are similar in Spenser's ...
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Now and Then
Robert B. Parker
Putnam Adult, 2007
Excellent
Classic Parker - you just can't get enough of these detective stories! Gotta love Hawk and the old fashioned chivalry.
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Night Passage
Robert B. Parker
Berkley, 2001
Strong start to a new Parker series
This book introduces us to Jesse Stone, a somewhat damaged man who has left the LAPD in disgrace after turning to booze to dampen the pain of his ex-wife's cheating. He has been hired on as chief of police for the town of Paradise, Mass. and the beginning of the book ...
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Resolution
Robert B. Parker
Putnam Adult, 2008
The New York Times –bestselling author’s richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction . I had an eight-gauge shotgun that I’d taken with me when I left Wells Fargo. It didn’t take too long for things to develop. I sat in the tall lookout chair in the back of the ...
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Spare Change (Sunny Randall Novels)
Robert B. Parker
Putnam Adult, 2007
Spare Change
I love and have read all of Robert B. Parker's books. I especially like the interaction between Spencer and Hawk. Easy to read and always interesting.
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Sea Change (Jesse Stone)
Robert B. Parker
Berkley, 2007
Sea Change
Great. Robert B. Parker was true to his reputation as an author. Couldn't put the book down. Having seen a couple of the movies about Jessie Stone, I could picture Tom Selleck making all these moves and hear him saying the dialogue. I hope there will be more to ...
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Stardust (Spenser)
Robert B. Parker
Berkley, 1991
Gold Dust Rising from Ashes of Coal Dust
What might burn to what purification and perfection, within the ashes of impoverished beginnings ...
Again, a Spenser novel kept my focus away from the snow-packed, icy curves of a Rocky Mountain corridor over the Continental Divide on Colorado State highway 50, ...
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Walking Shadow (Spenser)
Robert B. Parker
Berkley, 1995
All the world is a stage . . .
Susan has become a board member for a theatre in Port City, a shabby district on the water front that contains a Chinese ghetto filled with many illegal immigrants, including the Death Dragons, a gang that is run by the dai low for the Kwan Chang tong. The dai low in ...
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Stone Cold (Jesse Stone)
Robert B. Parker
Berkley, 2004
Stone Cold is riviting
This is the fourth novel in the Jesse Stone series and by far the most pschological. This trip to Paradise finds Jesse the troubled cop tackling three problems: to capture the pair of serial killers who are murdering random victims in small-town Paradise, Mass., where ...
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Small Vices (Spenser)
Robert B. Parker
Berkley, 1998
One of the best books in the Spenser series.
This is my second reading of 'Small Vices'. I'd read it before, years ago, and all I remembered was that this is the one in which Spenser gets himself shot and very nearly killed. (The beauty, I guess, of having so many Spenser novels is that it is hard to keep them ...
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Paper Doll (Spenser)
Robert B. Parker
Berkley, 1994
Color Crayons & Paper Dolls. Tigers Beware.
Push a Pin into the perfection balloon. What is marriage ... what are styles of domesticity ... to a wealthy WASP, to a liberated couple like Spenser and Susan, to a good-guy gay cop, to a State Senator, to an aging wealthy southerner.
The concluding scene in ...
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