Potshot

The twenty-eighth Spenser novel finds the intrepid Boston detective on the road again. A beautiful blonde widow named Mary Lou Buckman has hired Spenser to get the person or persons who recently killed her husband. The Buckmans owned a business in the small, fictional resort community of Potshot, ne......more

Maybe I’m overrating this one, but I found it enjoyable. After all, it is Parker’s version of The Magnificent Seven with Spenser in the Yul Brynner role (or Seven Samurai with Spenser in the Takashi Shimura role, if you prefer the original). Now, tell me, what could be more fun than that? Spenser is......more

Spenser deals in lead, friend. A beautiful widow whose husband was murdered in the small desert town of Potshot, Arizona, hires Spenser. She thinks he was killed for standing up to a gang called The Dell that has been extorting local businesses. Spenser journeys to Potshot and confronts Preacher, the......more

Spenser goes cowboy. 'Nuff said. Not really. But Parker does place Spenser in a different environment than Spenser is accustomed to. POTSHOT opens with a beautiful blonde seeking Spenser's skills. Her husband has just been killed and she wants to hire Spenser to unravel the mystery. There's only one......more

Potshot is more an excuse to have a fun setup than it is a detective novel in the way that some Spenser novels are. It's Parker nodding, again, to one of his heroes. This time, it's his take on Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Spenser is hired to look into a murder, and ends up also hired to clean ou......more