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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399153235
ISBN: 0399153233
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: September 27, 2005
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Studio: Putnam Adult
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Editorial Review:
The celebrated series continues as a troubled teenager accused of a horrific crime draws Spenser into one of the most desperate cases of his career. Lily Ellsworth-erect, firm, white-haired, and stylish-is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared's being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence. Jared's parents are resigned to his fate, and the boy himself doesn't seem to care whether he goes to prison for a crime he might not have committed.
"The celebrated series continues as a troubled teenager accused of a horrific crime draws Spenser into one of the most desperate cases of his career. Lily Ellsworth-erect, firm, white-haired, and stylish-is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared's being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence. Jared's parents are resigned to his fate, and the boy himself doesn't seem to care whether he goes to prison for a crime he might not have committed."
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Spenser is once again a white knight, seeking justice for a disturbed boy
In this story, Spenser is once again a white knight chasing what appears to be a false hope. Lily Ellsworth is the grandmother of Jared Clark, one of two boys who took pistols and shot up their high school, killing several people. Lily firmly believes that Jared is innocent, so she hires Spenser. The other boy is Wendell Grant and he was the only one caught inside the building. Since Grant has told the police that Clark was the other boy and Jared has confessed, Spenser's task seems pointless. ... Read More
Rating:  - Engaging
Robert Parker's novels featuring a Boston private detective named Spenser got off to a slam-bang start in the 1970s. But since then, the series has grown in popularity but deteriorated in quality, the plots becoming as thin as negligees and the wisecracking detective turning into a parody of himself...
Rating: - Is this the handwriting on the wall for Susan?
I truly hope that this is setting us up for the disappearance of Susan. I have never liked her character, and despite all their protestations, I just don't feel a close bond between them. Spenser seems besotted with her, but I never get the feeling that she loves him as much. She's very high maintenance and actually redundant, as he has the same basic relationship with Hawk, except for the sex.
Their banter can be light, give insight into them, or be incredibly menacing, depending ... Read More
Rating:  - Not as bad as Potshot - but that isn't saying much
I've only read two Spenser novels and this one is only marginally better than the last one I read. Potshot (the other Spenser novel that I've read) was cartoonish; with a plot as sophisticated as an episode of `Scooby Doo Where Are You?' The criminals in that novel were trying to scare everyone out of town with a gang of bad men (rather than spooky phantoms) so they could secretly find water in the hills, buy the town up for a song and make a bundle. (And they would have gotten away with it too, if it ... Read More
Rating:  - Dull writing
There must be a secret to Parker's success of mass publishing books. However, I was not able to find it.
First of all this was my first book by Robert B. Parker and certainly it was the last one. I just can't be friend with dull writing and sentences that rarely contain more than 10 words.
Here's a short excerpt:
"It had been a wet summer. Outside my office window, it was raining again. I was watching it. Pearl was resting om her couch. Later, wgen the excitement died down, I might ... Read More
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