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PI Sunny Randall has often relied on the help of her best friend Spike in times of need. When Spike's restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, Sunny has a chance to return the favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over - surely a guy that smarmy has a skeleton or two in his closet - and soon finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals.
At the same time, Sunny's cop contact Lee Farrell asks her to intervene with his niece, a college student who reported being the victim of a crime but seems to know more than she's telling police. As the uncooperative young woman becomes outright hostile, Sunny runs up against a wall that she's only more determined to scale.
Then, what appear to be two disparate cases are united by a common factor, and the picture becomes even more muddled. But one thing is clear: Sunny has been poking a hornet's nest from two sides, and all hell is about to break loose.
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- ISBN: 9780593087862
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December 1, 2020
Haines's Independent Bones features PI Sarah Booth Delaney, caught up with protecting a visiting professor of Greek literature at Ole Miss whose radical feminism may have sparked murder (40,000-copy first printing). In Jonasson's latest, Una is teaching in a remote Icelandic village when she discovers dark secrets the polite if distant villages have kept hidden for generations--perhaps involving The Girl Who Died (50,000-copy first printing). A peasant girl is murdered in a northern Chinese village, and exiled inspector Lu Fei takes the case in Klingborg's Thief of Souls (75,000-copy first printing). Brought back by Lupica in 2018, PI Sunny Randall investigates the suicide of best friend Spike's 20-year old niece in Robert B. Parker's Payback. In 1910, a senior barrister is found dead in a notorious London slum, and junior barrister Daniel Pitt endangers his family by investigating in Perry's Death with a Double Edge. In Walker's The Coldest Case, applying the facial reconstruction tools used on ancient skulls to the skull of a long-dead murder victim leads Bruno, chief of police in fictional town in the Dordogne, to the activities of a Cold War-era Communist organization. With A Peculiar Combination, Louisiana librarian Weaver detours from her beloved Amory Ames books to launch a new series starring Electra "Ellie" McDonnell, who cracks safes with locksmith uncle Mick to make ends meet in World War II England and agrees to help the government when she's caught (40,000-copy first printing).
Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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May 1, 2021
Many longtime Robert B. Parker devotees were skeptical when the Parker estate agreed to allow the late author's characters to appear in the work of surrogate writers, but in the case of Lupica, who has penned both Sunny Randall and Jesse Stone novels, and Ace Atkins, who has taken over the Spenser franchise, the experiment has been successful. Here, in his third Randall excursion, Lupica doubles down on that familiar trope in detective fiction--the PI takes a nonpaying case to help a friend--by having Sunny take two cases for different friends: Spike, who has lost his restaurant to a weaselly hedge-fund manager, and Lee, a cop whose college-age niece has been assaulted but won't take his help. Naturally, the two cases connect when the weasel and the niece are linked by a floating poker game. Lupica powers his way through the plot in fast-talking Parker style, reveling in the banter and the nicely delineated relationships between Sunny and various other Parker players (psychiatrist Susan Silverman, gangster Tony Marcus, and cop Jesse Stone, now Sunny's most significant other). It's all smart-alecky good fun in the hard-boiled tradition.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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