• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2022 March #2
  Lupica's fourth effort at the helm of the late Robert B. Parker's Sunny Randall series finds the Boston PI reconnecting with one of her most annoying clients, best-selling romance author and world-class diva Melanie Joan Hall (Shrink Wrap, 2002). This time Melanie is being stalked by someone who claims to have evidence that the writer's first novel was actually written by another person. Soon the stalker has progressed from sending Sunny chapters of the plagiarized manuscript to attempted murder. And the life of Sunny's father, retired Boston cop Phil, may also be at risk. Clearly, Sunny needs help protecting everyone that needs protecting—time to call in some of the old gang, including Sunny's pal Spike, restaurateur and gay man about town, and the dapper and deadly Hawk, costar of Parker's Spenser series (Spenser makes a cameo, too, as does his significant other and Sunny's therapist, Susan Silverman). The plot unwinds with some dexterous dipsy-doodles along the way, but the real treat here is the bringing together of so many members of Parker's extended family of fast-talking, right-cross-throwing scene stealers. Copyright 2022 Booklist Reviews.

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring police 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. Mike Lupica is a prominent sports journalist and the New York Times-bestselling author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction. A longtime friend to Robert B. Parker, he was selected by the Parker estate to continue the Sunny Randall series.