Spenser dies, revives, acquires depth, and Susan wants more.

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	• Small Vices Robert B. Parker Putnam Adult, 1997 - 308 pages average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
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Spenser dies, revives, acquires depth, and Susan wants more.

After all these years, Spenser, Hawk and Susan discover that they are HUMAN. Susan wants a child and to formalize her relationship with Spenser. She and Hawk lead him back from the dead after he runs into a shooter as cold as he. And it is a cold Charles River which saves him. The book is plainly about community and its saving graces, never a strong part of Parker's canon. Spenser desperately needs his friends and contacts in this book, and I was glad to see him lose his solipsism. It's the best Parker/Spenser in a while and mystery lovers will welcome them back

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Small Vices brings Susan, Spenser and Hawk closer than ever.

I've read over a dozen of the Spenser series and I've enjoyed the interplay among Susan, Spenser and Hawk as much as I have any story line. Small Vices gives a feeling of being drawn into and becoming the part of their group. I also appreciate the unexpected laughs. Thank you R.B. Parker.

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Clark Kent Returns

Robert Parker's Spenser novels are becoming increasingly cartoonish in nature. The depth of his first several Spenser novels has been replaced by bigger type, thicker pages, and situations so unbelievable they only need four colors and a couple of BAMS and ZOWEEEs to enter the realm of DC comics. Still, Spenser and Hawk remain an engaging duo. The problems here are many. The first is a case that has a clear resolution almost from the beginning. It's pretty clear whodunit and even who is trying to cover it up. The characters are cardboard cutouts, the Gray Man villain lives up to his name, a bland faceless adversary who manages to clip Spenser. (Why his always razor sharp sense of danger is not working at the time he is shot never enters into the story.) The moment that supposedly makes Spenser question life the universe and everything is treated with as much seriousness as an ingrown toenail. Although he is supposedly near death, we never doubt for a minute that he'll recover. One last thing. Enough of Susan. The psycobabble talks are less and less engaging, as are the constant "She's the only woman for me asides." Kill her off in the next book. Maybe Pearl the Wonder Dog can attack her. I'm only hoping that Parker can reduce his book a year clip and start putting meat back into his story.

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Excellent! Parker in top form!

Those who read last year's Spenser novel, Chance, were bored to death with the seemingly endless jargon. But Parker has reedemed himself threefold with "Small Vices." An excellent, comic read, Parker exposes Spenser at his sardonic best, all the while keeping the plot moving at a break-neck pace, the dialogue vernacular, and the settings vivid, but brief. Good work Mr. Parker. Aside from his Spenser novel, Parker fans may enjoy his non-genre police saga, All Our Yesterdays. That was a true gem of a novel, too! But read Small Vices and buy it in paperback

Dealing with Consequences?

I like Robert Parker as an author. His stories are well told and highly entertaining. However, I find it hard to believe that Spenser, Hawk and even ultimately Susan can be involved in the killing of so many people and not be affected by this. Most crime novelists do not deal with the psychological pain that is involved with killing and the emotional scars that are left. These deaths ultimately, for me at least, make it impossible to suspend my disbelief and truly enjoy his books

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