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Now and Then $19.46 - 20% OFF the list price of $25.95 plus the regular 20% discount means you pay only $15.57 at checkout time!! by Robert B. Parker Published by Putnam Order this book

Hard to believe: this is Robert Parker's 35th Spenser novel, and it follows the usual pattern of dialogue intensive, fast-moving, not-too-dark dash around the streets of Boston.

Susan's here, and so is Hawk; Spenser's client and associated characters wind up dead, and Spenser and crew set out to right the wrongs done.

Maybe these books write themselves. Certainly they read the way they always have, quickly and comfortably. Sometimes the Spenser/Susan dynamic can be cloying, but fans will debate that one for years to come. Certainly Hawk is welcome and the bang-bang ending is vintage Parker. It isn't up there with the best of the series, but after 35 of these things, who's going to quibble?

Interred with Their Bones $25.95 by Jennifer Lee Carrell Published by Dutton Order this book

It is a rare event when I pick up a novel and get hooked in spite of myself, but I did this time.

Imagine a killer who replicates Shakespeare's staged murders. Then imagine that there was a play by the man who was Shakespeare that had gone astray several centuries ago and is now the pot at the end of the rainbow.

Scholar/director Kate Stanley is about to stage "Hamlet" in the Globe when Rosalind Howard, her mentor in all things Shakespearean, gives her a box, claiming it contains a groundbreaking discovery. Before Kate can see it for herself, the Globe burns to the ground and Rosalind Howard is found dead... murdered precisely in the manner of Hamlet's father.

Inside the box Kate finds the first piece in a Shakespearean puzzle, setting her on a deadly, high-stakes treasure hunt.

From London to Harvard to the American West, Kate races to evade a killer and decipher a tantalizing string of clues: hidden in Shakespeare's works may be the key that will unlock literary history's greatest secret.

Spare Change $24.95 by Robert B. Parker Published by Putnam Order this book

I've had mixed feelings about Parker's moved away from Spenser to investigate the characters of his two new characters, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall. On the whole, I much prefer Stone, but that may be as a result of reading a review of a Sunny Randall novel that described her as Spenser in high heels. It was too accurate to be forgotten easily, and the image is daunting.

But of the Sunny Randall books, I think Spare Change succeeds best in communicating a sense of place, something the Spenser novels have succeeded at so well. I'm still frustrated by Sunny's continuing infatuation with her ex-husband, but Jesse suffers from being locked in a similar rut, and Parker seems to have no inclination to change his ways (NB: all Parker's books are dedicated to his ex-wife and present partner, Joan).

Sunny's father was the lead investigator in a series of murders that had struck Boston twenty-some years earlier by "The Spare Change Killer." Now retired, he calls on Sunny to help track the killer when a murderer using the M.O. surfaces. Although Sunny winds up being caught in the crosshairs and in serious danger, it makes perfect sense and moves along briskly.

It isn't Spenser, it isn't Jesse Stone, but it's still pretty good Parker.

The Spenser Companion $12 by Dennis Tallett Published by Companion Books Order this book

Here are the plots and casts of characters of the first twenty-seven Spenser novels, from The Godwulf Manuscript to Hugger Mugger.

This book is a must for all fans and wannabe fans. Check out all the novels you've read but don’t remember and the plots and characters you've yet to meet.

We are the sole source of this tremendous reference volume by the late Dennis Tallett, a wonderful man and great researcher. Upon his death, Dennis left us the balance of his stock.

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