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Praise for the spenser novels
“Is there a more promising opening in contemporary
crime fiction than Boston P.I. Spenser opening his office
door to a new client? Instantly we get Spenser’s
clear-eyed view of the client, what his or her dress and
stature have to say, and the rat-a-tat-tat of Spenser’s
wise-guy answers to the client’s queries . . . a series of
unflagging excellence. . . .” —Booklist (starred review)
When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser
to look into her mother’s death, he’s not completely
convinced by her claim that the original investigation
was botched. Mattie is gruff, street-smart, and wise beyond
her years, left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic
grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston after
her mother’s murder four years earlier. But her need for closure
and her determination to make things right hit Spenser where he
lives: they’re the very characteristics he abides by.
Convinced that the man convicted of the crime is innocent,
Mattie points Spenser to two Dorchester toughs who were
overlooked in the first investigation. Neither the Boston PD
nor hardened residents of Southie’s housing projects are keen
on his dredging up the past, but as Spenser becomes more involved
in the case, he starts to realize that Mattie may be on to
something—something that could get a whole lot more dangerous
if he is able to see it through to the end.
robert b . ParKer was the author of more
than fifty books. He died in January 2010.
aCe atKINs is the author of White Shadow,
Wicked City, Devil’s Garden, Infamous, and four Nick Travers novels,
as well as the Quinn Colson series, which includes The Ranger and
The Lost Ones. He lives on a farm outside Oxford, Mississippi.
May
Hardcover
ISBN 978-0-399-15803-2
$26.95/$28.50 CAN
Fiction
6" x 9"
304 pages
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Previous Spenser titles:
Sixkill
iSBN 978-0-399-15726-4 (hardcover)
Painted Ladies
iSBN 978-0-399-15685-4 (hardcover)
iSBN 978-0-425-24362-6 (paperback)
Paperback tie-in:
Sixkill
iSBN 978-0-425-24690-0
on sale in April
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