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Classic Boston noir thriller from global bestseller Robert B. Parker – one of contemporary crime fiction’s most popular and acclaimed authors.
When a young journalist researching the cocaine trade in a small Massachusetts town is found murdered, private detective Spenser is called in to find out who is responsible. Wheaton isn’t just any small town though – Spenser soon discovers it’s one of the biggest cocaine distribution centres in the Northeast. But the local drugs cartel are not the only suspects – did the journalist get too close to the truth, or too close to the wife of a very jealous man?
‘One of the great series in the history of the American detective story’ New York Times
When a young journalist researching the cocaine trade in a small Massachusetts town is found murdered, private detective Spenser is called in to find out who is responsible. Wheaton isn’t just any small town though – Spenser soon discovers it’s one of the biggest cocaine distribution centres in the Northeast. But the local drugs cartel are not the only suspects – did the journalist get too close to the truth, or too close to the wife of a very jealous man?
‘One of the great series in the history of the American detective story’ New York Times
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Spenser is the sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read private eyes around today
Parker's at the top of his game
Robert B. Parker's Spenser is one of the best private detectives in fiction
