A Catskill Eagle

For years I believed it was here, at #12 in the series—almost one-third of the way through Parker’s Spenser books—that the rot began to set in. Reading it again now, thirty years later, I find A Catskill Eagle to be an entertaining narrative filled with surprises and ending in a satisfying conclusio......more

In the previous book in the series, Valediction, Susan had left Spenser to take a job in San Francisco, partially because she said that she needed some time alone because she’d always defined herself as someone’s daughter, wife, girlfriend, etc. and Spenser’s idealization of her had become overwhelm......more

This is part of a series but it can be read as a stand alone novel. In this one, Susan is in trouble with her new boyfriend and she asked Hawk for help. He gets into trouble and away goes Spenser to rescue both of them. As you can tell by my rating I was disappointed by this offering. Instead of the......more