School Days (Spenser Series #33)

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Overview

A horrifying school shooting draws Boston PI Spenser into a harrowing investigation in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author Robert B. Parker.

When a Massachusetts boy is accused of mass murder, his socially prominent grandmother is convinced of his innocence and is willing to fight for him. But based on the boy’s resigned attitude and the evidence stacked against him, Spenser isn’t convinced of anything—except that there’s trouble ahead...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101205518
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/27/2005
Series:	Spenser Series , #33
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	500 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring police chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole-Everett Hitch westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, he died in January 2010.

Date of Birth:

September 17, 1932

Date of Death:

January 18, 2010

Place of Birth:

Springfield, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Education:

B.A. in English, Colby College, 1954; M.A., Ph. D. in English, Boston University, 1957, 1971

Website:

http://robertbparker.net/

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Crackling prose and juicy repartee.”—Entertainment Weekly

“The best Spenser novel since Early Autumn.”—The Associated Press

“Plenty of entertainment…The two-fisted P.I. is in good form and his creator in fine fettle here.”—Los Angeles Times

“Spenser fans…will be thrilled to have their wise-cracking Boston private eye back again…navigating the perilous shoals of suburban discontent and ripped-from-the-headlines horror stories—with only his fanciful German pointer, Pearl, to keep him company.”—New York Post

“Spenser returns! He fights, he flirts, he cooks, he wisecracks, he quotes poetry. This thirty-third outing for the Boston private eye is one of the most psychologically astute and well-choreographed entries in the entire series. This is a high point in one of the genre’s classic series.”—Booklist

”A pleasure…another solid installment in this fine, enduring series.”—Publishers Weekly

“Vintage Parker…Everyone interested in mystery and contemporary writing in general should read at least one of the Spenser novels.”—Library Journal

“Parker is at the top of his game…School Days [is] one of the best and most timely books Mr. Parker has ever written.”—Midwest Book Review

“A crackling yarn.”—Boston Magazine

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Editorial Reviews

Spenser has been hired by a wealthy client to clear her grandson of a multiple homicide. But though he's accused of seven murders, young Jared Clark seems unconcerned by the prospect of spending the rest of his life behind bars, causing our gritty investigator to wonder whether he's merely propping up a losing cause.

America's mystery maestro scores again. Our private investigator hero Spenser (no first name) is hired by a grandmother to prove the innocence of her 17-year-old grandson, who, along with another schoolmate, has been accused of killing seven students and teachers and wounding eight others in a Columbine-like massacre. The trouble is, the kid has confessed to his part in the hideous crime. (14 Nov 2005)
—Steve Forbes

Forbes Magazine

Just when you thought the Spenser saga (Cold Service, 2005, etc.) had tailed off into attitude and wryly clipped trash talk, Parker socks another home run with a tale ripped from not-so-recent headlines. Two students in ski masks executed seven people at Dowling Academy before one of them, Wendell Grant, surrendered to police. The authorities are convinced the other one was Jared Clark, the buddy Grant gave up to them when they pressured him. So why is blue-blooded Lily Ellsworth so convinced her grandson is innocent that she's offered a pot of money to Spenser to prove it? As the dean of Boston private eyes sets out to question the interested parties-and he gets stonewalled so consistently by cops and administrators who want "closure" and "healing" that the biggest mystery is how he's ever going to find anything out-one thing is clear: Jared sure looks guilty. Spenser's dogged attempts to learn where the killers got their weapons and the training to use them leads him to a student hangout where the kids are even more laconic than he is, a bunch of gangbangers even more prone to violence, and inevitably more murder. Given such a bitter harvest, it's no wonder he gets paid off and sent packing. His response is merely to change his focus to the question of why Jared, a slow, inoffensive kid who, despite the testimony of dishy school psychologist Beth Ann Blair, doesn't seem to fit the profile of the classic disaffected teen killer, would have joined forces with a bully like Wendell Clark. The shattering answer shows that Parker's willing to borrow from more than one set of real-life headlines. Spenser's most wide-ranging, deeply felt and penetrating case in years, one that will leave youwondering why, as one kid says, violence doesn't break out at schools more often.

Kirkus Reviews

Praise for School Days

“Crackling prose and juicy repartee.”—Entertainment Weekly
“The best Spenser novel since Early Autumn.”—The Associated Press
“Plenty of entertainment...The two-fisted P.I. is in good form and his creator in fine fettle here.”—Los Angeles Times
“Spenser fans...will be thrilled to have their wise-cracking Boston private eye back again...navigating the perilous shoals of suburban discontent and ripped-from-the-headlines horror stories—with only his fanciful German pointer, Pearl, to keep him company.”—New York Post
“Spenser returns! He fights, he flirts, he cooks, he wisecracks, he quotes poetry. This thirty-third outing for the Boston private eye is one of the most psychologically astute and well-choreographed entries in the entire series. This is a high point in one of the genre’s classic series.”—Booklist
“A pleasure...another solid installment in this fine, enduring series.”—Publishers Weekly
“Vintage Parker...Everyone interested in mystery and contemporary writing in general should read at least one of the Spenser novels.”—Library Journal
“Parker is at the top of his game...School Days [is] one of the best and most timely books Mr. Parker has ever written.”—Midwest Book Review
“A crackling yarn.”—Boston Magazine

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