Robert B. Parker's Hot Property (Spenser Series #52)

by Mike Lupica

Overview

“McGinnis can surely tell a story.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593716137
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/26/2024
Series:	Spenser Series , #52
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.20(d)

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, the acclaimed Virgil Cole-Everett Hitch Westerns, and 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.

Mike Lupica is a Hall of Fame sports columnist and New York Times bestselling author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, in addition to being a frequent co-writer with James Patterson. A longtime friend to Robert B. Parker, he was selected by the Parker estate to continue the Spenser series, after having previously done the same with the Sunny Randall series, and with Jesse Stone.

Editorial Reviews

2024-09-28
Boston’s gift to the private-eye pantheon is thrust into a case that’s far too personal for his liking.

Defense attorney Rita Fiore has come on to Spenser in lots of ways over the years, but never before by getting shot. As she takes two steps forward and one back at Mass General, Spenser and his wingman, Hawk—aided willingly by the police and a lot less willingly by everyone else—look for a motive for her drive-by shooting. The most likely suspect is Shannon Miles, the TV news anchor whose sexual harassment suit against co-anchor Brian Tully was shot down once Rita took Tully’s case. But Spenser, looking beyond the obvious, focuses on Rita’s clandestine relationship with Nicholas Drummond, whose meteoric rise as the boy wonder of the state Senate was cut short by his accidental drowning off Castle Island in South Boston last September, before the record snowfalls began. Or was it really accidental? Digging into Drummond’s activities as Senate president, Spenser zeroes in on a high-stakes competition between kingpin developers Kevin McManus and Thomas Mauro for a parcel of land in South Boston they both have big plans for (McManus’ plans in particular will make Beantown readers gasp). When Tully is killed and Shannon Miles shoots an intruder who escapes from her home, Spenser concludes that the mystery must run even deeper. As psychiatrist Susan Silverman, no fan of Rita’s, tells her longtime lover: “The whole thing is a hot mess, isn’t it?...And Rita being shot is just one part of it and you’re trying to figure out how big a part.”

Though the premise is punchier than the payoff, fans of the series won’t complain.

Kirkus Reviews

[I]t’s raw. Not “raw for YA.” Real-deal raw. And violent. And unforgettable. McGinnis explores both and she goes there in a way no one really has before in YA.

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