Painted Ladies, by Robert B. Parker
Nov. 9th, 2010 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aThis is what I now presume will be the penultimate Spenser novel by the late Mr. Parker.
Overall, I thought it was quite a good story. A lot of recent Spensers have been more action-adventure than mystery, but this returns to the classic formula. We have an intertwined theft and murder that spin out into a wide network of people. It was nicely done.
I was also struck by the ending. The novel pretty much ends on an exclamation of unbounded love. I've more than once felt that Parker seemed to have a love in his life that could move mountains--and an appreciation of the same.
In the end, that's about all we could expect or demand from this world.
Overall, I thought it was quite a good story. A lot of recent Spensers have been more action-adventure than mystery, but this returns to the classic formula. We have an intertwined theft and murder that spin out into a wide network of people. It was nicely done.
I was also struck by the ending. The novel pretty much ends on an exclamation of unbounded love. I've more than once felt that Parker seemed to have a love in his life that could move mountains--and an appreciation of the same.
In the end, that's about all we could expect or demand from this world.