Bad people with lots of money use it to insulate themselves from consequences. But in Ace Atkins’ Someone to Watch Over Me, some very bad, very rich people might not be able to protect themselves from Spenser.
Nine years ago, Atkins published Lullaby, his first novel about Boston private detective Spenser. Robert B. Parker, Spenser’s creator and the beloved author of 39 bestselling novels about the wisecracking tough guy, died in 2010, and Parker’s family and publisher chose Atkins, an accomplished crime fiction writer, to continue the series.
He’s done so seamlessly. Atkins, who used to be a reporter for the then-St. Petersburg Times and the Tampa Tribune, has written a new Spenser book every year since 2012, as well as one per year in his own series about Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson (most recently The Revelators ).
"Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me" by Ace Atkins; G.P. Putnam’s Sons (306 pages, $27) ——— Bad people with lots of money use it to insulate themselves from
"Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me" by Ace Atkins; G.P. Putnam’s Sons (306 pages, $27) ——— Bad people with lots of money use it to insulate themselves from
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