Thin Air
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (975 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597770264 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 321 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
When Lisa St. $125,000 ad/promo.. 175,000 first printing. Claire, the beautiful young bride of a Boston police detective vanishes mysteriously, Spenser joins the search for the missing woman, following a dangerous trail that leads him to a sociopathic Latino ex-lover and into a deadly confrontation with Lisa's dark past
Lots of atmosphere and even suspense?Will Lisa resist Rico's demands? Can Spenser discover a way to rescue her??are built up in short sentences and one-line paragraphs. Chapters alternate between the room where Lisa is kept under guard and constantly running video cameras and Spenser's gradual assembling of clues. Spenser's pal Hawk is away (his place taken briefly by the sharp L.A. Clair, a radio deejay newly married to a Boston police detective, has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a Proctor, Mass. The cop, who knows only that his wife has disappeared, is shot and seriously injured just after he asks Spenser to investigate. Mystery Guild selection; Literary Guild alternate. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly In the famed Boston PI's 22nd case, an oddly sympathetic villain and a resolute heroine draw Spenser into a barrio enclave in a depressed Massachusetts factory town. Readers know that Lisa St. The PI discovers Lisa's for
Greggorio! said SHE'S GONE!!! SHE'S GONE!!!. When the wife of a Boston cop disappears, nobody knows if she left town from choice. No note has been found, and the situation has left said cop in the quintessential quarry as he has no idea why she left, what he did wrong, or if she even intends to come back. The more time passes, the more suspicious the case gets and sooner rather than later, our man Spenser. Steve Schwartz, Austin said Stage-y and therefore unconvincing.. I'm a fan of Parker's. I reread him regularly. Great dialogue, hairy predicaments -- what's not to like? This book, however, is an oddity. It is central to the arc of the entire series (it lets us know more of Sgt. Belson), but it's a bit of a letdown. Someone has kidnapped Belson's wife, and Belson asks Spenser for help. The book is told from two points of vie. Melvin Anderson said Thin air or into thin air. I like Spenser, almost all books written involving him, Parker does a better job with him than with any of his others. It is only my opinion. Here we have a cop friend of Spenser's who loses his wife. He does not come asking Spenser for help in finding her, it is only when someone tries to put Belson away that Spenser becomes highly active and of course cracks