No Exit Press - Spare Change by Robert B Parker

Spare Change

by Robert B Parker

ABOUT THE BOOK

When a serial murderer dubbed "The Spare Change Killer" by the Boston press surfaces after three decades in hiding, the police immediately seek out the cop, now retired, who headed the original task force: Phil Randall. As a sharp-eyed investigator and a doting parent ("You're smart. You're tough. You, too, are a paradigm of law enforcement perfection, and you're my kid"), Phil calls on his daughter, Sunny, to help catch the criminal who eluded him so many years before. Sunny is certain that she's found her man after interviewing just a handful of suspects. Though she has no evidence against Bob Johnson, she trusts her intuition. And she knows the power she has over him — she can feel the skittishness and sexual tension that he radiates when he's around her — but persuading her father and the rest of the task force is a different story.

When the killer strikes a second and third time, the murders take a macabre turn, as the victims each eerily resemble Sunny. While her father pressures her to drop the case, Sunny's need to create a trap to nab her killer grows. In a compelling game of cat-and-mouse, Sunny uses all her skills to draw out her prey, realizing too late that she's setting herself up to become the next victim.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'Robert B Parker is one of the greats of the American hard-boiled genre.'
- Peter Guttridge, The Guardian [read the full review]

'Parker can spin a tale with the best of them -most of the time, he is the best of them. He riffs smoothly off Sunny's blue mood'
- New York Times Book Review

'Parker packs more meaning into a whispered "yeah" than most writers can pack into a page'
- Sunday Times