Title: Disappointing performance for Parker
Product review: Rhapsody is the story of Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, his love life, his brothers, and the shoot-out with the Clantons at the OK Corral. It's not the best version. I have the greatest respect for Parker. Looking for Rachel Wallace is a masterpiece of the modern mystery, the first mystery I ever read, and fifteen years later I'm writing them myself. I do whatever it takes to get a new Spenser novel, even though in the last ten years they've been longer on humor and shorter on action (with the exception of Thin Air). No matter. I could read a book with Spenser, Hawk and Susan doing nothing but sitting around a table, I'd be immensely entertained. But Rhapsody has none of the humor, none of the cleverness, none of the insight Parker is famous for. It's limp, boring, and dies on the page. It's a struggle to make it to the end. I love Parker, but there's no wit or humor here, no real plot twists, no life. Even the great ones put out the occasional dud. Sorry, Bob.
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