technicat started reading Night and day by Robert B. Parker
Night and day by Robert B. Parker
Paradise, Massachusetts, Police Chief Jesse Stone must deal in his own laconic way with the town's rights and wrongs, including …
This is my first Spenser novel, and I vaguely remember the TV series, so I think I would actually like to see that show again. The characters and their banter are fun and the plot moves, but the very Bostonian level of race consciousness, albeit on a more progressive note, is exhausting, although rings authentic (along with all the other Boston scenery) because I spent some years in the Boston area and people would just say stuff like "You guys don't like Koreans, right?" and random strangers would ask me if I could speak English or hand me an ESL pamphlet. Like I say, exhausting. But maybe I'll try another book. Hawk is pretty cool.
