The Professional
A Spenser Novel

I really liked Spensers personality and spare, but witty dialogue. I liked his relationship with his girlfriend and sometime partner. The plot was interesting and the book kept my attention. The only thing I didnt like is the author frequently writes he said and she said into the dialogue. It becomes excessive and annoying, but after a while you adapt to it and barely hear it. My first foray into Parker territory and Ill be back for more.

One of Robert B. Parker’s later entries in the Spenser series, I recalled this one fondly, so recently read it again. I found this to be much better than expected, confirming my initial opinion of it years ago. There is just enough Vinnie and Hawk to keep it interesting, and though any of the vain a......more

An unsuccessful but somewhat interesting Spenser. All the irritating Spenser things (motive-exploring dialog, Susan, the Tonto-ization of Hawk) are here, but the delightful things (snappy patter, vivid descriptions of places and people, drive-by literary allusions) are here as well. To further compl......more

*I wrote this long review where I indulged in some Parker bashing a few weeks back. I just read that he died today. Yes, I do feel like a jackass.* Once upon a time there was a crime writer named Robert B. Parker, and in the early ‘70s, he started a line of books about a P.I. named Spenser. The books......more

Boston P.I. Spenser makes his thirty-seventh appearance in The Professional. Four women are married to older, wealthy men and each of the women has been having having great sex on the side with a man named Gary Eisenhower. Sadly, Eisenhower has been videotaping his sessions with the women and is now......more

AUDIBLE BOOK Spencer , hired by 4 women to make a blackmailer back off. Everybody except Spencer is getting murdered. Some of then deserve it.......more