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Title: Widow's Walk by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0-425-18904-X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.34 (73 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Reliable Fare
Comment: This is the typical Spenser novel - same great characters: Spenser, Susan and Hawk + good story line and humor. Parker does smart tough guy dialogue as well as anyone. Spenser's self-deprecating humor always rings true.
So why only three stars? There is nothing to distinguish this book from any of the other Spenser novels. The plot was fairly good, but so are all of the books in this series. It is -as are all the Spenser novels - goos light reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: "It's still the same old story, a fight for love and glory."
Comment: We'll never tire of Spenser. I'm pretty certain of that. Even when we know the guy's going to end up being 80 years old, still checking out the babes, beating up the bad guys, with an emotional United Nations of friends and camp followers, even then we'll always enjoy his company for a few hundred pages.
Here he hooks up with an old flame, Rita Fiore, tries to help her client, the incredibly dumb Mary Smith, hangs with Cimoli, Quirk, Belson, Vinnie and Hawk, has his ashes hauled as usual by the ever size 5 Susan, and in the end, well, you know.
One disappointment for me was that he doesn't seem as sad as he used to be once faced with the darker side of the whims of life. As a consequence, Susan's sadness at the suicide of one of her patient's seems almost trite, certainly unnecessary. But it's Spenser being Spenser.
Hard to beat the early Spensers, but the recent ones ain't too shabby either. This one, "Widow's Walk," is one of the better novels of Parker's cast in the last ten years. Nevertheless, if you're new to the quintessential PI you shouild start with the early ones. These are some of the best mysteries in the last 50 years. Like the game we would play when we were kids, if you were going to take 10 mysteries with you on a deserted island, three would be by Parker written before 1985, possibly Gudwulf, Rachel Wallace, Ceremony, God Save the Child or A Savage Place.
But as Watson would tell Holmes, I digress. Spenser fans won't be disappinted in Widow's Walk.
Rating: 4
Summary: Beantown banker goes down...
Comment: ... but will the widow walk? Spenser gets hired by the widow's defense attorney to help clear her of murder. She's about as young and dumb as Anna Nicole, and obviously lies when Spenser questions her. Meanwhile, another bank employee, a broker, and a hitman go down in a hail of bullets, and Spenser is being watched by a couple of fat guys in bad suits driving big black cars. Spenser enlists the help of faithful sidekicks Hawk and Vinnie, to protect himself and shadow the numerous suspects in this twisted tale of immorality. This one is packed with solid action, and Spenser's wry humor.
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Title: Back Story: A Spenser Novel by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0399149775 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Pot Shot by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425182886 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Shrink Rap by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0399149309 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Death in Paradise by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425187063 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Hush Money by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425174018 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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