Silent Night

Praise for SILENT NIGHT “This is the perfect holiday treat for crime readers needing another Spenser fix” — Library Journal   “Brann does a seamless job…Diehard Parker fans will be delighted.” — Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Robert B. Parker  was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole /Everett Hitch westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, he died in January 2010. Visit the author’s website at robertbparker.net and on Facebook at facebook.com/RobertBParker. Helen Brann  was Robert B. Parker's literary agent for thirty-two years, from 1978 to 2010, and is the literary executor of the Robert B. Parker estate. She is the owner of the Helen Brann Agency, Inc., which she founded in 1973. Klappentext A special gift for the holiday season—a rumination on Christmas as conceived by Robert B. Parker. “Brann does a seamless job…Diehard Parker fans will be delighted.” — Publishers Weekly It’s December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he’s confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide. Homeless and alone, Slide has found refuge with an organization named Street Business, which gives shelter and seeks job opportunities for the homeless and lost. Slide’s mentor, Jackie Alvarez, is being threatened, and Street Business is in danger of losing its tenuous foothold in the community, turning Slide and many others like him back on the street. But it’s not a simple case of intimidation—Spenser, aided by Hawk, finds a trail that leads to a dangerous drug kingpin, whose hold on the at-risk community Street Business serves threatens not just the boys’ safety and security, but their lives as well.  Unfinished at the time of his death,  Silent Night  was completed by Parker’s longtime agent, whose decades-long association with Parker’s work gives her unique insight and perspective to his voice and storytelling style. Her contribution also speaks volumes about their enduring friendship. Leseprobe SUSAN AND I WALKED from my place up to Newbury Street on a sunny Saturday morning. The snow from the night before had stopped falling. There wasn’t much traffic, mostly cabs and an occasional noisy snowplow. It was two weeks before Christmas. A Salvation Army worker in full uniform was ringing a bell beside a tripod bucket at the corner of Boylston and Berkeley. “I’m glad we don’t exchange presents anymore,” I said. “Me too,” Susan said. “Have you canceled your account at Victoria’s Secret?” “Reluctantly. But they still send me the catalog.” “You could probably have your name removed from the list,” Susan said. “Sure.” She smiled. We went into a women’s boutique, where the staff seemed to know Susan. I found a chair designed for a woman who weighed 108 pounds. I resumed my lifelong comparative study of the female form. Susan had opened a nearly insurmountable lead. That was no reason not to see who might be runner-up. Or in the top ten. After about forty minutes we left. Susan had bought what she referred to as a “lovely little top.” And several small packages in a shopping bag decorated with a large Santa Claus. “I didn’t think Jews did Christmas shopping,” I said. “More often we do Christmas selling. You do realize there’s a group of us at Harvard who gather every year and drink wine and exchange one gift each.” “Any men in this group?” “No.” “Sounds like a fun crowd. A gathering of Harvard women.” “It can get a little fustian at times,” Susan said. “But I like these women, and there’s something sort of nice about a girls’ night out.”<...

Product details

• Authors: Helen Brann, Robert B. Parker, Robert B./ Brann Parker
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.2014
• EAN: 9780425271612
• ISBN: 978-0-425-27161-2
• No. of pages: 229
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 178 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Spenser; Spenser
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense