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Painted Ladies

A Spenser Novel
by Robert B. Parker
Painted Ladies: A Spenser Novel. Putnam. Oct. 2010. c.304p. ISBN 9780399156854. $26.95. M
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Parker died this past January, making this the last in his long-running and popular series featuring wisecracking Boston PI Spenser. Like the series debut, The Godwulf Manuscript, the plot involves a missing artifact, a murder, and Spenser's determination to do the job he set out to do no matter who or what stands in his way. The missing artifact here is a stolen painting, and Spenser's client is an art professor who wants protection while ransoming it. Things, of course, are not quite what they seem, and the path to resolution is full of twists, betrayals, secrets, and good intentions gone horribly wrong. Parker's dialog is as sharp and snappy as ever.
VERDICT Fans of the series and of mystery fiction in general will enjoy one last outing with Spenser, longtime lover Susan, and Pearl the Wonder Dog. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 5/1/10.]
Reviewed by Bradley A. Scott, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi , Sep 01, 2010
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