Unlike the books of Spenser written by Ace Atkins, “Silent Night” is a novel that Robert B. Parker was working on at the time of his death. Helen Brann, Parker’s agent for thirty- two years and the literary executor for the estate, decided with the permission of Joan Parker’s widow to finish the Christmas novel he began. Brann has done a great job of keeping the feel of Parker’s tightly written stories. There is the trademark snappy dialogue and the interplay of Hawk and Spenser, and Susan and Spenser that made the Parker novels so much fun to read. Brann was also a logical choice to finish the work because she worked with Parker for so many years. “Silent Night” is a great addition for the millions of fans of Parker’s Spenser series.
Robert B. Parker’s Silent Night
With Helen Brann
Putnam
c/o Penguin Group USA
375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014
www.penguin.com
9780399157882, $24.95, www.amazon.com
you are kidding right? there is no snappy banter and it sounds nothing like Parker and it is remedial as well