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Ellis Alves is a bad kid from the ‘hood with a long record, but did he really murder Melissa Henderson, a white student from ritzy Pemberton College? Alves’s former lawyers think he was framed, and they hire Spenser to uncover the truth. From Boston’s back streets to Manhattan’s elite, Spenser and Hawk search for suspects, including Melissa’s rich kid tennis-star boyfriend. But when a man with a .22 puts Spenser in a coma, the hope for justice might just die along with the detective…
Category: Crime and mystery fiction
RRP: £6.99
ISBN: 9781901982589
Published: July 20, 1999
Extent: 352 pages
RRP: £4.99
ISBN: 9781843441625
Published: April 25, 2013
‘Parker has written a powerful piece about the defeat and reclamation of a hero’
Marilyn Stasio , New York Times
‘The best writer of this kind of fiction in the business today’
New Republic
Robert B Parker was the best-selling author of over 60 books, including Small Vices, Sudden Mischief, Hush Money, Hugger Mugger, Potshot, Widows Walk, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise, Death in Paradise, Family Honor, Perish Twice, Shrink Rap, Stone Cold, Melancholy Baby, Back Story, Double Play, Bad Business, Cold Service, Sea Change, School Days and Blue Screen. He died in 2010 at the age of 77.
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