One Plus One is Better Than Two.

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	• Blue Screen (Sunny Randall) Robert B. Parker Berkley, 2007 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 65 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

One Plus One is Better Than Two.

I have long been a huge Spenser fan. I always thought that Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall were far lesser lights in Parker's galaxy. In Blue Screen they team up, professionally and personally. The combination is far better than any of their solo excursions.

Both characters are extremely likeable and working through their relationships with exes (which prompts the brief appearances of Dr. Susan Silverman) when the P.I. and the Chief of Police meet over a corpse.

The corpse is that of the sister to a talentless, yet athletic, actress who Sunny was hired to protect. She then hires Sunny to find the killer of her sister. The actress is also planning to be the first female major league baseball player, playing on the team owned by a very deliciously smarmy producer. The batting practice scenes are near hilarious.

The sisters have a past, of course, and that leads Sunny and Jesse to the west coast and back to solve the crime. Along they way they stagger into their new relationship. The plot wends and weaves and the actress is often a suspect. The ending caps a good mystery.

Like all of Parker's best, the plot is a good one with interesting characters all along the way. Also, Parker's trademark of humor and warmth between his main characters is sprinkled liberally throughout.

This is highly recommended for a good fun light read, especially for those who thought these two characters often fell short of Spenser and Hawk. It is hoped that the next iterations of these two will keep them together.

A note on the audio book. Kate Burton does a great job. Many female readers have difficulty doing men's voices it seems, but she did the several males seamlessly.

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Turns out I had already read this book. I read it cover to cover anyway.
As my former boss (Ted Ahlgren) always told me, "Cremin, you really only need three books." That is, if you have a memory like Ted and me.

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Blue Screen

This is an exciting book, typical of Robert Parker. The copy I received was new and it arrived in a timely manner.

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Sunny Randall, "Boston's leading lady gumshoe" (New York Daily News), returns as hired bodyguard for the spoiled, and possibly dangerous, prize female client of a sleazy producer. This time, she gets a little help from Parker's popular character Jesse Stone, making a guest appearance here

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