Spare Change A Sunny Randall Novel edition by Robert B Parker Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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When a serial murderer dubbed 'The Spare Change Killer' by the Boston press surfaces after three decades in hiding, the police immediately seek out the cop, now retired, who headed the original task force Phil Randall. As a sharp-eyed investigator and a doting parent ("You're smart. You're tough. You, too, are a paradigm of law enforcement perfection, and you're my kid"), Phil calls on his daughter, Sunny, to help catch the criminal who eluded him so many years before. Sunny is certain that she's found her man after interviewing just a handful of suspects. Though she has no evidence against Bob Johnson, she trusts her intuition. And she knows the power she has over him — she can feel the skittishness and sexual tension that he radiates when he's around her — but persuading her father and the rest of the task force is a different story. When the killer strikes a second and third time, the murders take a macabre turn, as the victims each eerily resemble Sunny. While her father pressures her to drop the case, Sunny's need to create a trap to nab her killer grows. In a compelling game of cat-and-mouse, Sunny uses all her skills to draw out her prey, realizing too late that she's setting herself up to become the next victim.
Spare Change A Sunny Randall Novel edition by Robert B Parker Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Reading this novel reminded me of a Spenser novel I read several years ago. Sunny Randall is really a female Spenser, who in this story was the stalkee, just as was Susan Silverman in the Spenser novel.Both women reached the unfaltering opinion that a certain alleged male suspect was indeed the guilty person, and put themselves in positions of being stalked in order to trap the suspect who was also a sex pervert who got his rocks off by imagining sex encounters with these two women.
I gave this book a four star rating because of Mr. Parker’s sharp wit, his short concise narrative and dialogue. If you are already a Parker fan and if you don’t mind reading stories about a female Spenser, then I highly recommend this book. It moves fast and held my interest tight.
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Spare Change A Sunny Randall Novel edition by Robert B Parker Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
This is a very suspenseful serial murder mystery. The motive is a mystery until the very end and even then it is somewhat curious.
Spare Change, the latest entry in the Sunny Randall private detective series by MWA Grandmaster Robert B. Parker (Spenser, Jesse Stone, Burke), delivers on almost every level. In baseball vernacular, Parker no longer needs to throw high heat as in the early Spenser novels where the body count exceeded the psychological insights. Like a veteran fastball pitcher who can no longer "bring it", he knows how to use the tools of his writing trade to entertain primarily, and toss in some thoughts on family dynamics and the like. He can throw a change up (e.g. the relationship between Sunny and Richie), high heat (Sunny and Julie and dates from hell), and mix in the occasional curve (Spare Change killer's identity). The minute you sit on the fastball, he paints the outside corner. Looking on the outside corner, and it's up and under your chin. Don't get comfortable because that isn't part of the game plan for this book.
While there are two anomalies in the book that stick out to me like a sore thumb (one, concerning a possible murder weapon and the other, regarding the status between Richie and Sunny), I thoroughly enjoyed yet another page turner by someone so proficient in turning a phrase as to make William Shakespeare envious.
Spare Changeonce again returns the reader to the world of female Boston P.I. Sonya Randall. Characters from the world of Robert B. Parker pass through all of the series books with ease and they are welcome indeed. He also has a flair for names as in the aptly monikered, "Ghost Garrity."
The ending of the search for a serial killer did not disappoint. One major trouble with a book like Spare Changeis that in being a page turner and can't put down read, the thrill ride is all too brief. I recommend that after a few days you pick up the unabridged audio version of this book and enjoy it all over again.
Now only four or five months until the next Spenser book? Far too long, I think.
Sunny teams up with her father to catch a serial killer from 20 years ago that appears to have resurfaced. A task force of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies is formed to catch the killer. Early in the book a suspect is identified but the task force does not have enough manpower for adequate surveillance so the killing continues. Sunny devises a plan to get the suspect to confess.
SPOILER ALERT I read the Jesse Stone series and then Sunny Randall. Why was Robert Parker obsesesd with divorced people being in love with the ex for eternity? The previous Sunny Randall book stated Richie's wife was 4 months pregnant. No mention of the pregnancy in Spare Change plus
Richie leaves his wife because he is still in love with Sunny. Is Richie that much of a cad to leave a pregnant wife (or wife and baby)?
Spare Change read like someone besides Robert Parker wrote it. I didn't think I was ever going to plow through it.
Introspective? Just open the book at any random page and you'll find someone soliloquising about their troubles, sometimes in company. Sloppy? The client is apparently a heavy drug user, but no effects or cravings are shown. Also, for Pete's sake, ten year olds know that a revolver retains its fired cases. Only automatics eject them.
And Susan Silverman is her usual, irritatingly omniscient self.
Leave this one in the store.
David
Classic Parker serial killer "he done it now let's prove he done it." Includes Sunny Randall's dad, a Boston retired cop, as the two collaborate (Sunny always leading) on her dad's most problematic cold case. There's some of the classic Parker subplot of a former marital relationship that just won't die as Sunny rekindles with Richie. Add a touch of introspection with Susan Silverman, plus a few appearances by Sunny's sloshy mom and BPD Homicide Commander Martin Quirk and you have a nicely rounded cast for the 6th novel in Parker's series. I particularly liked Sunny's dad. Would be nice to see more of him in the future.
It's hard to rate a Robert Parker book on the five-star scale sort of device. He was a most interesting writer. "Spare Change" is one of his Sunny Randall novels, which are even more a favorite group of his books for me. He does a top-notch job of portraying a female main character in a mystery/suspense setting. "Spare Change" is as much about Sunny's family as it is about the whacko killer. In particular, there is classic compare/contrast scenario at work between her relationship with her father and the relationship of the killer with his father. (Sunny's Dad wins the Better Guy award.) Spike and Lt. Quirk and Susan Silverman and some other staples dress the stage for the zany commentary that we expect from a Parker book. Thus the overall rating of five-stars. The only thing I would criticize is the murder/mystery plot itself. The best I can call it is "up to par". It keeps the pages turning, but...well, it keeps the pages turning. If I were rating the book simply as a crime/murder/suspense story, the best I could give it would be four stars. But the broad strokes of Sunny and her nutcase family, that's what earns the five.
Reading this novel reminded me of a Spenser novel I read several years ago. Sunny Randall is really a female Spenser, who in this story was the stalkee, just as was Susan Silverman in the Spenser novel.
Both women reached the unfaltering opinion that a certain alleged male suspect was indeed the guilty person, and put themselves in positions of being stalked in order to trap the suspect who was also a sex pervert who got his rocks off by imagining sex encounters with these two women.
I gave this book a four star rating because of Mr. Parker’s sharp wit, his short concise narrative and dialogue. If you are already a Parker fan and if you don’t mind reading stories about a female Spenser, then I highly recommend this book. It moves fast and held my interest tight.
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