If you like the Spenser series, this one won't disappoint.
I've always enjoyed the Spenser series and Robert B. Parker's writing style. The Professional is another winner.
I've been a fan since the early 90's when I read my first Spenser novel my senior year in high school. Spenser is an awesome character and will be fondly missed now that Parker has passed on. The Professional is no exception to a long line of Spenser novels. Spenser the ever stalwart detective can't resist digging further into a case that he was never officially hired for, because well...the psychology of it intrigues him. Must be the influence of his longtime girlfriend Susan Silverman or that Spenser is that guy. The guy who is there to save the damsels in distress, if only that were the case. How do you help damsels who keep getting in distress on purpose? How do you stop a guy who has the help of his so called victims? You follow him around and get to the bottom of it, even if it kills you.
A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower- and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment goes from blackmail to murder.
As matters become more complicated, Spenser's longtime love, Susan, begins offering some input by analyzing Eisenhower's behavior patterns in hopes of opening up a new avenue of investigation. It seems that not all of Gary's women are rich. So if he's not using them for blackmail, then what is his purpose? Spenser switches tactics to focus on the husbands, only to find that innocence and guilt may be two sides of the same coin.
This is another of Parker's books with adventures throughout the pages. I could hardly put the book down until I finished the last pages.
This is the first R.B.Parker book that I have "tried" to read.I simply could not get through all the "he said","she saids." Sorry Mr.Parker but I don't think it is necessary to have that many to get a point across.
