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Painted Ladies

Painted Ladies

CrimeHardboiled
Published
2010

Synopsis

Painted Ladies is the 39th Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker, a hardboiled crime classic. When a renowned painting is stolen from the Hammond Museum, Spenser is hired to recover it, only to be drawn into a dangerous conspiracy involving art forgery, a ruthless fixer, and a deadly plot that threatens everyone involved. Alongside his partner Renée and his niece Tess, Spenser must navigate a world of deception and violence to uncover the truth behind the theft. Gritty, tense, and expertly plotted, Painted Ladies is a quintessential Parker crime novel.

Prose complexity
3/10

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Genres

Crime Hardboiled

About the author

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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...

Characters

SpenserProtagonist

A private investigator and former boxer hired to recover a stolen painting, who becomes entangled in a dangerous conspiracy.

All characters in Painted Ladies