Rough Weather (A Spenser Mystery)
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Rough Weather (A Spenser Mystery) by Robert B Parker
You don't read Spenser novels for the plot. You read them for the brilliance of the wisecracking dialogue and the relationships between Spenser and his sidekick Hawk, the laidback black man who minds Spenser's back and takes no stick from anybody. In this novel, you also meet the current love of Spenser's life, Susan a psychotherapist and helpmeet. She and Spenser have been invited to Tashtego Island to the wedding of the daughter of a very rich woman. Spenser has been hired to be a companion to the rich woman, a role he finds somewhat baffling. When the clergyman and the bridegroom are shot dead and the daughter kidnapped in front of the wedding guests, Spenser is as shocked as anyone and is hell bent to find the daughter and figure out exactly what is going on. Hawk is once again called upon to save Spenser as things hot up.
… deftly sketched characters … his use of genre material is always freshHe demonstrates his continued ability to write well-constructed and literate works of detective fiction - Times Literary Supplement. * Times Literary Supplement *
I enjoyed it - Glasgow Herald. * Glasgow Herald *
We are witnessing one of the great series in the history of the American detective story - New York Times Book Review. * New York Times *
I enjoyed it - Glasgow Herald. * Glasgow Herald *
We are witnessing one of the great series in the history of the American detective story - New York Times Book Review. * New York Times *
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Robert B. Parker completed a Ph.D. in English at Boston University. He married his wife Joan in 1956. He began writing his Spencer novels while teaching at Boston's North-eastern University in 1971. In 1997 he wrote his first Jesse Stone novel, Night Passage. Parker was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2002.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781847242440 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847242448 |
| Title | Rough Weather (A Spenser Mystery) |
| Author | Robert B Parker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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