Book : Robert B. Parkers Payback (sunny Randall) - Lupica,..

-Titulo Original : Robert B. Parkers Payback (sunny Randall)

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G.P. Putnams Sons

-Descripcion Original:

In her latest thrilling adventure, PI Sunny Randall takes on two serpentine cases that converge into one deadly mystery.PI Sunny Randall has often relied on the help of her best friend Spike in times of need. When Spikes restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, Sunny has a chance to return the favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over--surely a guy that smarmy has a skeleton or two in his closet--and soon finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals. At the same time, Sunnys cop contact Lee Farrell asks her to intervene with his niece, a college student who reported being the victim of a crime but seems to know more than shes telling police. As the uncooperative young woman becomes outright hostile, Sunny runs up against a wall that shes only more determined to scale. Then, what appear to be two disparate cases are united by a common factor, and the picture becomes even more muddled. But one thing is clear: Sunny has been poking a hornets nest from two sides, and all hell is about to break loose. Review Lupica makes smart-mouthed Sunny as fully realized as Parker’s better-known gumshoe, Spenser. Readers are sure to look forward to her next outing.-Publishers WeeklyLupica powers his way through the plot in fast-talking Parker style, reveling in the banter and the nicely delineated relationships between Sunny and various other Parker players....Its all smart-alecky good fun in the hard-boiled tradition.-Booklist About the Author 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. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. ONE I was in my brand new office over the P.F. Chang’s at Park Plaza, around the corner from the Four Seasons and a block from the Public Garden, feeling almost as cool as Tina Fey. I’d just walked through the door that had “Sunny Randall Investigations” written on the outside, put on some coffee, sat down behind my rustic wood Pottery Barn desk. All in all, I was everything a professional woman should be, if you didn’t count the Glock in the top righthand drawer of my desk. There were two chairs on the client side of the desk, a small couch against one wall, and a table on the other side of the room that I used for painting when I needed to take a break from world-class detecting. It housed my pads and boards and a palette and all the other tools of a world-class water colorist’s trade. “Forget about the gun,” Jesse Stone said. “If somebody shows up and threatens you, just pull a paint brush on them.” “What about the boxing classes you made me take?” I said. “You should see how good my right hand has gotten.” I had signed up for a half-dozen at the gym an old boxer named Henry Cimoli owned over near the harbor. “Here’s hoping you never need to throw it,” he said. Jesse. Chief of Police, Paradise, Massachusetts. On-again, off-again boyfriend. Mostly on over the past year. I had given in and started calling him that, my boyfriend, just because I hadn’t found a better way to describe his role in my life. We were still together, anyway, even though we were mostly apart, our relationship having survived the virus. We were official, as the kids liked to say, even if we hadn’t announced it on , or wherever kids announced suc