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After Spenser, what?
I've read Parker's Spenser series. Which of his other books or series would you recommend next?
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I liked the Jesse Stone Series.
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Lee Child books on "Jack Reacher" (don't be turned off the movies, if you have been. the books overall are much better and very enjoyable.
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There is also his western series Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.
And he finished Raymond Chandler's eighth Philip Marlowe book Poodle Springs. And he wrote a sequel to the first Phillip Marlowe book The Big Sleep, Perchance to Dream. Apache |
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I might be interested in those Marlowes. Probably not the westerns. The list is growing.-)
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I've also read Parker's Spenser series. I didn't care for the Jesse Stone Series. I had doubts about western fiction but the Cole series was enjoyable.
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No, I haven't. Parker's particular appeal for me was his ruminations on masculinity. I doubt that the follow up authors can successfully pull on that thread. After 40 novels, I've been content to let the series end.
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I read the one that was finished by his agent, and it was okay. The ending might have been a little more sentimental, but okay. Then I read one that was written by someone else, and I thought it didn't measure up. Didn't quite get his voice right. Also longer than he'd have written it.
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Finished the first Jesse Stone novel -- Night Passage -- and found it to be okay. Heavy on the set up, and a bit obvious that it was setting up a series rather than this novel, but okay. I find it interesting that Stone is meeting some of the characters from the Spenser series.
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There is also the Sunny Randall series (6 in total, starting with Family Honor). Sunny is a Boston P.I. and is pretty much a female Spenser, and they are set in the same universe. I enjoyed them, though nothing can match up to Spenser.
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PS - although I understand you are after Parker stuff, I would give the Jack Reacher books some serious consideration. It's the only post-Parker series that has given me a similar sense of anticipation waiting for the new books to arrive.
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