Title: New to Spenser? Do yourself this favor:
Review: Do what I did when I discovered Spenser at the library (at age 12):Go to the library, check out all of the first eleven books. Here they are, in order, from memory:The Godwulf ManuscriptGod Save the ChildMortal StakesPromised LandThe Judas GoatLooking for Rachel WallaceEarly AutumnA Savage PlaceCeremonyThe Widening GyreValedictionThank your personal deity for these eleven. And then do NOT read any of the others. They are reflex actions, increasing unimaginative, self-congratulatory and boring. If you persist, you'll learn what I did, the hard way: the magic is gone for good. And the person responsible for it, and apparently utterly oblivious to it, is Robert B. Parker.
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