Imprint: No Exit Press

Series: A Spenser Novel

Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby

Ace Atkins

Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old guard challenger but also contending with numerous death threats coming from hundreds of suspects.

When her chief of staff reaches out to Spenser to help find the culprits behind the most credible threats, Garcia-Ramirez is less than thrilled. Since her first grassroots run, she’s used to the antipathy and intimidation women of color often face when seeking power. To her, it’s all noise. But it turns out an FBI agent disagrees, warning Spenser that Garcia-Ramirez might be in real danger this time.

It doesn’t take long for Spenser to cross paths with an extremist group called The Minutemen, led by a wealthy Harvard grad named Bishop Graves. A social media sensation pushing an agenda of white supremacy and toxic masculinity, he denies he’s responsible. As the primary nears and threats become a deadly plot, it’s up to Spenser, Hawk, and a surprise ally to ensure the congresswoman is safe.

This is Spenser doing what he does best, living by a personal code and moral compass that can’t ever be broken.

  • Boston PI Spenser takes on a new case in this next instalment in Robert B. Parker’s iconic New York Times bestselling series
  • The Netflix Original film of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser Confidential by Ace Atkins has been watched by over 85 million households. It is one of Netflix’s Top 5 most watched films of 2020 and spent 18 consecutive weeks at No 1 on the streaming service
  • Ace Atkins is a New York Times bestselling author and has been nominated for every major award in crime fiction. Atkins has continued writing Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series after Parker’s death in 2010, adding ten bestselling novels to the series
  • Over the course of a legendary literary career, Robert B. Parker wrote over 65 novels and single-handedly reinvented American detective fiction for the modern world with his irreverent, idealistic protagonist, Spenser. His books have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide
  • Parker was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best P.I. Hardcover Novel multiple times and won the 1995 THE EYE – Lifetime Achievement Award and 2002 Edgar Grand Master Award

Category:

Paperback

RRP: £12.99

ISBN: 9780857304995

Published: August 25, 2022

Extent: 224 pages

Ebook

RRP: £4.99

ISBN: 9780857305008

Published: February 7, 2022

Reviews

‘Atkins continues his very successful stewardship of the late Robert B. Parker’s beloved Spenser series… This fast-moving and suspenseful thriller is also laced with clever banter… Spenser lives and lives well!’

Booklist

‘A crime yarn laced with tension and wit’

Kirkus

Bye Bye Baby is classic Spenser… Atkins captures the essence of the Spenser novels, complete with beloved characters

Crime Fiction Critic

Ace Atkins

Ace Atkins is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven books, including ten books in his Quinn Colson series. Handpicked by the Robert B. Parker Estate nearly a decade ago to continue the Spenser series, he’s written nine novels about the iconic private eye. He lives and works in Oxford, Mississippi.

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