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Review Date: 10/21/2006
Sunny & Jesse really do make a cute item!
Review Date: 12/27/2005
I love RBP's writing, but the Spenser series is getting stale and the characters are more stereotypical with each one. Try Double Play (fiction about Jackie Robinson's bodyguard) or Poodle Springs to experience Parker at his best.
Review Date: 10/13/2006
Very engaging plot and characterization. Great exploration of sexual equality issues.
Review Date: 12/28/2005
Fictional account about bodyguard of Jackie Robinson. The bodyguard is a WWII vet dumped by his ex-wife. Imaginative with exemplary characterization. Parker at his best! This will appeal to both Parker and baseball history addicts.
Review Date: 2/19/2007
All three volumes of the Trilogy and box included!:
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Review Date: 11/12/2007
I agree that this is not Connelly's best work. Characters could use some more development and draw more empathy from the reader. Plot development is exemplary as always and keeps the reader engaged.
Review Date: 12/26/2005
Harry Stoner mysteries are always a quick enjoyable read.
Review Date: 12/27/2005
First Harry Bosch mystery after his retirement from the LAPD. Highly recommended.
Review Date: 12/26/2005
Great story of sickness and healing during tuberculosis epidemic
Review Date: 12/26/2005
Fantasy novel part of a trilogy about a land bright with magic and peopled with warriors, lovers and dancers.
Review Date: 12/26/2005
Short stories by Ursula LeGuin, sci-fi/fantasy master and author of the Earthsea trilogy.
Review Date: 12/31/2006
Robert B Parker completes the unfinished work of the great master of mystery, Chandler. The transition is seamless and Parker proves he is heir apparent!
Review Date: 12/26/2005
A Sunny Randall mystery, Robert B. Parker's female PI.
Review Date: 1/19/2006
Helpful Score: 1
From Publishers Weekly
It's taken four novels, but finally Parker's Jesse Stone series has produced a book as good as top-drawer Spenser. This outing finds the laconic, troubled cop tackling three problems: to capture the pair of serial killers who are murdering random victims in small-town Paradise, Mass., where Stone is chief of police; to bring to justice the three high-school students who gang-raped a younger schoolmate; and to come to terms with his love of both alcohol and his ex-wife, Jenn. The serial killers, revealed early to the reader and soon enough to Stone, are a married yuppie pair who taunt Stone, whom they take as a dumb hick cop, as he collects evidence to bring them down; his pursuit of them leads them to kill someone close to him, then to target Stone himself, and eventually to an emotionally cathartic climax in Toronto, where the killers have fled. That story line serves as a fine little police procedural, but Parker is at his max here when following the rape plot, especially in scenes in which Stone, in his cool, compassionate way, tries to help the besieged victim as best he can. Meanwhile, under intense media attention and pressure from town elders for the ongoing serial killings, Stone works his way toward an understanding of the roles that booze and Jenn play in his life. Told in third-person prose that's a model of economy, with sharp action sequences, deep yet unobtrusive character exploration and none of the cuteness that can mar the Spenser novels, this is prime Parker, testament to why he was named a Grand Master at the 2002 Edgar Awards.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
It's taken four novels, but finally Parker's Jesse Stone series has produced a book as good as top-drawer Spenser. This outing finds the laconic, troubled cop tackling three problems: to capture the pair of serial killers who are murdering random victims in small-town Paradise, Mass., where Stone is chief of police; to bring to justice the three high-school students who gang-raped a younger schoolmate; and to come to terms with his love of both alcohol and his ex-wife, Jenn. The serial killers, revealed early to the reader and soon enough to Stone, are a married yuppie pair who taunt Stone, whom they take as a dumb hick cop, as he collects evidence to bring them down; his pursuit of them leads them to kill someone close to him, then to target Stone himself, and eventually to an emotionally cathartic climax in Toronto, where the killers have fled. That story line serves as a fine little police procedural, but Parker is at his max here when following the rape plot, especially in scenes in which Stone, in his cool, compassionate way, tries to help the besieged victim as best he can. Meanwhile, under intense media attention and pressure from town elders for the ongoing serial killings, Stone works his way toward an understanding of the roles that booze and Jenn play in his life. Told in third-person prose that's a model of economy, with sharp action sequences, deep yet unobtrusive character exploration and none of the cuteness that can mar the Spenser novels, this is prime Parker, testament to why he was named a Grand Master at the 2002 Edgar Awards.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review Date: 4/8/2007
Helpful Score: 2
Masterful first novel! Niffenegger weaves time matrices, plot lines, and passion masterfully. A must read that made year's best list on many PBS discussion forum posters.
Review Date: 12/27/2005
V.I. Warshawski mystery
Review Date: 12/26/2005
Part 2 of Lord of the Rings trilogy
Review Date: 12/26/2005
Seventeen short stories by the mystery/fantasy master
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