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The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller of all, Pastime is an electrifying masterpiece of crime fiction – a startling game of memory, desire and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father’s rage. Now on the brink of manhood, when Paul Giacomin seeks answers to his mother’s sudden disappearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to.
‘Witty, wonderful fun’ Cosmopolitan
Paul’s missing mother Patty has become involved with the mob – and disappeared under mysterious circumstances. But what starts as a routine search has unusual consequences, for if he is to find Patty in time, Spenser must delve into his own past, and search his own soul.
‘In a wise and witty tour-de-force, Robert B. Parker brings back the unforgettable characters of his classic Early Autumn, one of the Boston PI’s most personal, resonant cases’ Kirkus
‘Witty, wonderful fun’ Cosmopolitan
Paul’s missing mother Patty has become involved with the mob – and disappeared under mysterious circumstances. But what starts as a routine search has unusual consequences, for if he is to find Patty in time, Spenser must delve into his own past, and search his own soul.
‘In a wise and witty tour-de-force, Robert B. Parker brings back the unforgettable characters of his classic Early Autumn, one of the Boston PI’s most personal, resonant cases’ Kirkus
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Reviews
Witty, wonderful fun
In a wise and witty tour-de-force, Robert B Parker brings back the unforgettable characters of his classic Early Autumn, one of the Boston PI's most personal, resonant cases
Spenser is the sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today
Reading a Spenser novel is like a family reunion - it makes one feel good
Bold . . . fast . . . satisfying
Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer . . . Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself.
One of the great series in the history of the detective story
Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenalin
The legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-MacDonald tradition
Spenser gives the tribe of hard-boiled wonders a new vitality and complexity
Robert Parker is still top gun in the tough-guy school of fiction
Spenser is a constant revelation for even longtime Parker fans
When it comes to detective novels, 90 per cent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it