Crimson Joy, Robert B. Parker
Crimson Joy, Robert B. Parker
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Crimson Joy

Author: Robert B. Parker

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 5 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2009


Synopsis

A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give.

Spenser plays against time while he tracks the Red Rose killer from Boston's Combat Zone to the suburbs. His trap is both daring and brave, and gives the story a satisfying climax.

"Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogue zings, and there is plenty of action...but it is the moral element that sets this series above most defective fiction." (Newsweek)

About The Author

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, novels featuring 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, Parker died in January 2010.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on June 27, 2019

This isn’t a bad mystery. In fact, it may be better than I think it is. It has a serial killer in it, and I don’t like serial killers. Nobody likes serial killers, you say? Yeah, I know everybody hates them as people. But I also hate them as characters. I particularly hate them when they come equippe......more

Goodreads review by Jim on November 24, 2023

This is part of a series where each book can be read as a stand alone. In this one Lt. Quirk asks Spenser for assistance in a serial killer case who is killing older black women. There were parts of this novel that I really enjoyed and some not as much. This book had so much more potential and I beli......more

Goodreads review by Bill on January 29, 2025

Spenser and Susan’s lives become entangled with a serial killer. Predictable storyline but the author excels at dialogue, the interactions between Spenser, Susan, Hawk and Quirk are both hilariously amusing and heartfelt throughout the novel. You end up caring more about the character interaction th......more

Goodreads review by Josh on July 14, 2018

A serial killer who targets black women in their 40's is leaving a trail of blood and fear in his wake as he terrorizes the female populace in Beantown. Private Eye, Spencer is brought in unofficially to help catch the serial killer when the cops fail to cuff the perp shortly after murder turns mult......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on October 11, 2010

Serial killers are the cockroaches of crime fiction. No matter how many you see, there’s always a million more. Even Robert B. Parker doing his updated version of old school detective novels with Spenser couldn’t escape the siren call of doing a book about a wacko murderer back in the ‘80s when the......more