Title: Not the best but more solid than some stuff
Product review: The strength of these books (I think) in the beginning was the ability of the author to combine the style of a Raymond Chandler book with the attitude of thinking and caring atttached to the particular character of Spenser. Some of the books are better at it than others. When the Chandler style takes over, you end up with conversations that are little more than a series of one-liners--this book tends in that direction, although the repeated telephone psychology conversations (which don't fit the Chandler model) do help to keep real conversation going. I thought the plot was interesting although you could see the ending coming for quite awhile and the end of the book was abrupt. I felt a little as if he were recycling elements of other successful books here; the strong gay character, or the hostage holding (from Looking for Rachel Wallace). I, too, missed Hawk. But I liked the more conversational, vocal style.
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