In Cheap Shot, the new novel about Robert B. Parker's beloved Boston detective, there's a point at which Spenser butts heads with someone who is "a distrustful, immoral creep. And I'd rather have my ...

The death of author Robert B. Parker in 2010 brought with it an unusual business challenge. The novelist, who wrote almost 70 books, the majority of them about his iconic Boston private eye, Spenser ...

Is Spenser still Spenser if you take him out of Boston? Few characters are as closely connected to their home turf as the wisecracking, steel-tough private investigator created by Robert B. Parker.

Robert B. Parker’s “Old Black Magic” by Ace Atkins (Putnam, $27) is the latest highly entertaining crime novel showcasing Boston private investigator Spenser. It’s the seventh in the bestselling ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Robert B. Parker, the U.S. crime novelist who helped revive the hard-boiled detective genre through his "Spenser" series, has died. He was 77. An ambulance was summoned to Parker's ...

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For Ace Atkins, the former Auburn defensive end turned crime novelist, 2021 is shaping up to be a productive year: His ninth Spenser detective novel, “Someone to Watch Over Me,” is just out and the ...

April Kyle was a teenage prostitute when Spenser tried to rescue her 25 novels ago in “Ceremony.” He hasn’t seen or heard from her since. So he doesn’t recognize her when, elegant in a Michael Kors ...

I fell in love with Spenser when I was 17. It was June, and I was trapped in summer school making up a gym credit that I should have taken my freshman year but had instead put off so long that it ...