Robert B. Parker - Early Autumn

Pros: Poignant story of a teenager with little choice but to mature quickly.
Cons: Painful reminder of how Robert B. Parker's work has slipped.

I will begin this review with an admission: I am a huge fan of Robert B. Parker's Spenser character - the Boston-based private detective with a killer left jab and even more potent knowledge of English literature. I own and have read a sizeable chunk of...

Pros: Great, touching, coming of age book
Cons: Long time for a follow up

I LOVE IT!!!!!
This is the novel that firmly set my opinion of Spenser. The plot of this novel is very simple: Spenser takes in a child, Paul, who is wanted by neither of his parents, takes him out into the wilderness and teaches him...