Here is the blurb from the dust jacket of Chance:
The search for a Mafia princess's errant spouse lands Spenser-"one of detective fiction's best hard-boiled gumshoes" (People)-on the firing line in a gangland turf war.
Once again, Robert B. Parker makes artfulness look easy, with Chance, his sensational new thriller. This time Spenser-the tough-but-tender sleuth whose passion for justice repeatedly plunges him into a sea of trouble-hires out on a marital matter whose attached strings entangle him with the Mob.
When big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura approaches Spenser and his redoubtable sidekick, Hawk, about locating his only daughter's missing husband, it's clear he's not telling them the whole truth about the blushing bride and the ardent groom. In fact, he may be lying. But something about these missing links appeals to Spenser, and he agrees to take the case.
So begins an odyssey into the netherworld of disorganized crime: from the throne rooms of crime lords to the Vegas strip; from two-bit wiseguys with a genius for dangerous liaisons to gangsters' molls in jeopardy; from larceny to homicide. And that's just for openers. All too soon, it becomes clear that what's at stake is not young love, but control of gangland, Boston. Spenser and Hawk find themselves dead-center in a circus of violence whose shadowy ringmaster is all too familiar to a private eye with a past.
Set against the bright lights and seamy side streets of Las Vegas, Parker's latest novel proves that -he can still create characters who live and dialogue that talks" (The New York Times Book Review).
Robert B. Parker is the author of more than twenty-seven books, including the recent Spenser bestsellers Thin Air and Walking Shadow. He lives in Boston.
Below is the blurb from the dust jacket of Sudden Mischief:
"Parker's finest in years ... one can't-put-it down story. Again," proclaimed the San Francisco Chronicle of Robert B. Parker's most recent New York Times best-seller, Small Vices.
"Nobody does it better," cheered Publishers Weekly in a starred review. And the Washington Post Book World said, "Small Vices deserves instant inclusion in the Spenser canon."
In Sudden Mischief Parker's stouthearted hero unwillingly takes a case that tests his sleuthing skills-and his commitment to the woman he loves.
Brad Sterling-former Harvard football player, ne'er-do-well, and Susan Silverman's long-out-of-touch ex-husband-is, by all appearances, a successful businessman. But when he is charged with sexual harassment in the course of running a vast fund-raiser called Galapalooza, he turns to Susan for help. Though Brad. denies the charge, he's desperate, behind in alimony and child support to other exes, and on the verge of dissolution. When Spenser reluctantly agrees to the case, he finds Brad denies everything. Sterling claims everything is fine-he is free of debt and free of problems.
While the harassment charge begins to look more and more specious, Spenser begins to sense there is something wrong with Galapalooza, when leads to charities turn into dead ends. Susan, meanwhile, becomes steadily more problematic as she wrestles with demons reinvigorated by the resurrection of her ex-husband. As the questions mount, Brad disappears, a body is found, and a shadowy mob connection begins to coalesce. Spenser finds himself fighting a two-front war: against some very bad men on the one hand, and an increasingly difficult Susan, struggling with her own resurrection, on the other.
Dark, contemplative, and morally complex, Sudden Mischief is a brilliant meditation on the meaning of justice, love, and passion.
Robert B. Parker is the author of more than twenty-nine books, including the recent bestsellers Night Passage and Small Vices. He lives in Boston.
Below is the blurb from the dust jacket of Bad Business:
A cheating husband and a wayward wife provide Spenser with an unconventional and dangerous surveillance job.
"Parker makes his intention clear: his courtly knight will not age, wither or forsake his heroic mission. Hawk will always be scary. Susan will always be a beauty. And there will always be a dog named Pearl in the house. Without losing touch with the present, Parker surrounds his hero with reliable friends and familiar foes to renew their vows to the codes of misconduct that were laid down three decades ago." -- The New York Times Book Review
When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband, Trent, is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargained for: he finds not only a two-timing husband, but a second investigator as well, hired by the husband to look after his wife. As a result of their joint efforts, Spenser soon finds himself investigating both individual, depravity and corporate corruption.
It seems the folks in the Cowleys' circle have become enamored of radio talk-show host Darrin O'Mara, whose views on courtly love are clouding some already fuzzy minds with the notion of cross-connubial relationships. O'Mara's brand of sex therapy is unconventional at best, unlawfuland deadly-at worst. Then a murder at Kinergy, where Trent Cowley is CFO, sends Spenser in yet another direction. Apparently, the unfettered pursuit of profit has a price.
With razor-sharp characterizations and finely honed prose, this is Parker writing at the height of his powers.
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