Hundred-Dollar Baby

Pages: 313
Published: 2006
Language: English

Boston PI Spenser is surprised when April Kyle, a runaway he rescued years ago, walks back into his office as a successful madam. She is running an upscale call-girl operation and needs protection from local mobsters trying to take over her business. Spenser and his partner Hawk must navigate the city's criminal underworld to keep April safe from a franchise-hungry kingpin.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Gritty Tense Atmospheric

Mentor Figure Morally Grey

Crime Mystery Suspense

Robert B. Parker

Robert B. Parker (1932–2010) was an American crime novelist best known for creating Spenser, the wisecracking Boston private investigator at the center of 40 novels beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript (1974). He also created the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall detective series and, starting with Appaloosa, a series of Westerns featuring Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. He served in the US Army in Korea and earned a PhD in English from Boston University, and in 2002 the Mystery Writers of America n...