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Reviews
Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe or Lewis Archer
When it comes to detective novels, 90 per cent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it
Spenser is a constant revelation for even long-time Parker fans
One of the great series in the history of the detective story
Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenalin
Spenser gives the tribe of hard-boiled wonders a new vitality and complexity
The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today . . . the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition
Nobody does it better
Reading a Spenser novel is like a family reunion - it makes one feel good
'No one understands what makes Bob Parker's Jesse Stone tick better than Michael Brandman - and Michael is just the writer to carry Jesse into the future' Tom Selleck.
