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Loading... God Save the Child (1974)by Robert B. Parker
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This novel irritated me to no end. Parker apes Chandler, and I suppose there is something to be said for his attempt to convey a sense of time and place in 1970s Boston suburbia. But Parker does not really have anything to say; the mystery is underwhelming and Parker has a weird fixation with dads not being there for their sons or something. ( ) Some of the early Spenser novels are such realistic representations of the time in which they are set that it is difficult to accept the story. In this one, Spenser is hired to find a missing boy. He soons discovers that the family is such a mess that any intelligent individual would run away. This book does have the trademark Spenser snarkiness which I love, but the story wasn't my face. no reviews | add a review
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Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away--until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture: an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends ... friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy's life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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