Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues

Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe or Lewis Archer * Boston Globe *
When it comes to detective novels, 90 per cent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it * Harlan Coben *
Spenser is a constant revelation for even long-time Parker fans * Milwaukee Sentinel *
One of the great series in the history of the detective story * New York Times Book Review *
Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenalin * Boston Observer *
Spenser gives the tribe of hard-boiled wonders a new vitality and complexity * Chicago Sun *
Thesassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today . . . the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition * Cincinnati Post *
Nobody does it better * Publishers Weekly *
Reading a Spenser novel is like a family reunion - it makes one feel good * Library Journal *
'No one understands what makes Bob Parker's Jesse Stone tick better than Michael Brandman - and Michael is just the writer to carry Jesse into the future' Tom Selleck. * Tom Selleck *