Robert B. Parkers Little White Lies, Ace Atkins
Robert B. Parkers Little White Lies, Ace Atkins
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Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies

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Author: Ace Atkins

Narrator: Joe Mantegna

Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/02/2017

Synopsis

Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man’s trail of smoke and mirrors in this thrilling entry in Robert B. Parker’s long-running series.
 
Connie Kelly thought she’d found her perfect man on an online dating site. She fell so hard for handsome, mysterious M. Brooks Welles that she wrote him a check for almost three hundred thousand dollars, hoping for a big return on her investment. But within weeks, both Welles and her money are gone. Her therapist, Dr. Susan Silverman, hands her Spenser’s card...
 
A self-proclaimed military hotshot, Welles had been a frequent guest on national news shows speaking with authority about politics and world events. When he disappears, he leaves not only a jilted lover but a growing list of angry investors, duped cops, and a team of paramilitary contractors looking for revenge.

Enter Spenser, who quickly discovers that Welles’ name, résumé, and client list are nothing but an elaborate fraud. As he follows the mystery man’s trail from Boston to backroads Georgia, Spenser will need help from trusted allies Hawk and Teddy Sapp to make sure Welles’s next con is his last.

About The Author

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring police 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, he died in January 2010.   Ace Atkins is the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson novels, the first two of which—The Ranger and The Lost Ones—were nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (he also has a third Edgar nomination for his short story, “Last Fair Deal Gone Down”). In addition, he is the author of several New York Times bestselling novels in the continuation of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series. Before turning to fiction, he was a correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times, a crime reporter for the Tampa Tribune, and, in college, played defensive end for the undefeated Auburn University football team (for which he was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated). He lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on April 28, 2017

I received a free advance copy of this from NetGalley for review. I usually spend some time in my reviews of the new Spenser books from Ace Atkins talking about how well he’s done with the tricky job of taking over the series from the late Robert B. Parker. I’m not going to do that anymore because at......more

Goodreads review by James on September 24, 2018

Spenser, Robert B. Parker's iconic Boston P.I., appears here for the forty-fifth time, now in the very capable hands of Ace Atkins who has revived the series and made it fresh again. As the book opens, Spenser's Significant Other, the therapist Susan Silverman, refers one of her clients, Connie Kelly......more

Goodreads review by Bill on July 03, 2024

Akins perfectly captures what made Parker’s Spenser novels great. The witty banter, interesting characters, vicious bad guys and intriguing mysteries, but most importantly a standup lead character that doesn’t bend on his morals and ethics. Spenser does the right thing because it’s the right thing t......more

Goodreads review by Sneed on July 29, 2017

I suppose I should envy those who can read this slop and think it was well done. It wasn't. In actual fact, Spenser joins Parker with this and is now dead as well. Atkins was obviously writing for a contract, wanted to get done and just strung enough words together to get to the end. The real Spense......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on July 30, 2018

Unlike a lot of reviewers, I thought Atkins did his best job yet of evoking the original spirit of Spenser. A woman is victimized by a flim-flam man and Spenser tries to get her money back. Of course, there is much more than that involved, but Spenser gets to the bottom of it. Recommended.......more

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Praise for Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies

“Atkins, a longtime Spenser fan, understands the character and what makes him tick. He knows Spenser’s world and the people who inhabit it. He writes with the same spare style as Parker and peppers the narrative with the same wry wit.”—Fort Worth Star Telegram

“A taut, suspenseful story line drives Edgar-finalist Atkins’s sixth Spenser novel...which deepens the relationship between the Boston PI and his significant other, therapist Susan Silverman.”—Publishers Weekly

“Atkins really hit his stride as steward for Parker’s characters.”—Booklist

Praise for Ace Atkins and the Spenser Series

“Handpicked by the Parker estate to be the keeper of the flame for the Spenser franchise, award-winning author Ace Atkins rises flawlessly to the occasion. In addition to the signature dialogue, all the familiars are fully resurrected: Susan, the sexy shrink; Pearl, the wonder dog; Hawk, the wonder sidekick; good cop Quirk, and, of course, Spenser himself, that consummate knight errant for the twenty-first century.”—Kirkus Reviews

“It’s a feat when a writer creates characters who live and breathe on the page and make readers care and keep coming back for more. To manage that with someone else’s characters, let alone with an icon like Spenser, is a minor miracle. Ace Atkins pulls it off.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“Atkins does a wonderful job with the characters created by Parker.”—Booklist
 
“Classic Spenser—the Spenser of wry wit, tasty food and drinks, hard workouts and lethal confrontations...Once again, Atkins has delivered a thriller that evokes the best of Parker’s Spenser series, not least the punchy back-and-forth of the dialogue.”—Associated Press

“Atkins has done a splendid job of capturing the voice of the late Robert B. Parker.”—Publishers Weekly

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