Shrink Rap
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (535 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590072723 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 334 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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I am enjoying this series Great Read. Sami said No bookmarking. Poor reading.. I like Mr. Parker's writing. He's the author of a more relaxed mystery and likable detectives. Unfortunately, the person reading this particular version (Deborah Raffin) is not very good. The plot is reflected in the reading. Not a great plot, but if the actress reading is good, it's easy to overlook funky plot lines and misses. Also, there were no bookmarks on any of the CDs--which is a big production mistake. I'll be wary of New Millennium (. "Parker does a pretty good job writing about a woman detective" according to D. B. Hopkins. Parker does a pretty good job writing about a woman detective. I wonder how these stories fare from the female perspective? While the stories are predictable in some ways, that's one of the reasons I read them. I like to know that the bad guys will get their just deserts. I have now read the whole Sunny Randall collection, and have had my fill for now. Wish there were more!
In Shrink Rap, Sunny's working as a bodyguard for a famous romance writer who's being stalked by her ex-husband, a psychiatrist engaged in extremely unprofessional conduct with his female patients. Boston PI Sunny Randall is the daughter Robert Parker's series hero Spenser and his inamorata, Susan Silverman, might have had if they weren't so busy parenting Pearl the Wonder Dog. Like Spenser, Sunny is smart, tough, and fearless; like Susan, she's sexy, droll, and vulnerable; and like Pearl, Sunny's pit bull, Rosie, is the only character who's wise enough to hide when trouble comes knocking at the door. --Jane Adams. To get the goods on Dr. John Melvin, Sunny goes undercover as a vulnerable divorcée, which isn't that far from the truth; simultaneously, she
"Parker can reveal more about a character in five words of dialogue than many writers can in an entire book(Sunny Randall) is capable yet realistically human, and not above accepting a little help from her friends. A welcome addition to the fold." The Washington Post Book World