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- Hardcover: 320 pages ;
Dimensions (in inches): 1.28 x 9.70 x 6.14
- Publisher: Putnam Pub Group;
(September 16, 2002)
- ISBN: 0399149309
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Book
Description
Melanie Joan Hall is a bestselling
author in a bind. Her publisher needs her to tour on behalf of
her newest blockbuster, and Melanie Joan needs a
bodyguard-cum-escort to protect her from an overbearing
ex-husband whose presence unnerves her to the point of
hysteria.
Sunny's
cool demeanor, cop background, and P.I. smarts are an instant
balm for the older woman. She begins to sense that Melanie
Joan's ex-a psychotherapist-is not your basic stalker, and
when an incident at a book signing leaves the ex bloodied and
the author unconscious, it's clear the stakes are high.
Deciding
that the only way to crack the case is from the inside, Sunny
enters therapy herself, only to discover some disturbing
truths about herself . . . while putting her life on the line.
Gripping, nuanced, and filled with Parker's signature dialogue
and psychological insight, Shrink Rap is a winner.
From
the Publisher
Sunny Randall, the beautiful blond P.
I. with a yen for dogs, painting, and her ex-husband Richie,
has won over even the most hardcore of Robert B. Parker's
fans. "The real deal," raved Publisher's
Weekly.
In Shrink
Rap, Sunny tries to take down a stalker, and faces personal
demons in the process.
Boston
PI Sunny Randall is the daughter Robert Parker's series hero
Spenser and his inamorata, Susan Silverman, might have had if
they weren't so busy parenting Pearl the Wonder Dog.
Like
Spenser, Sunny is smart, tough, and fearless; like Susan,
she's sexy, droll, and vulnerable; and like Pearl, Sunny's pit
bull, Rosie, is the only character who's wise enough to hide
when trouble comes knocking at the door.
In
Shrink Rap, Sunny's working as a bodyguard for a famous
romance writer who's being stalked by her ex-husband, a
psychiatrist engaged in extremely unprofessional conduct with
his female patients.
To
get the goods on Dr. John Melvin, Sunny goes undercover as a
vulnerable divorcée, which isn't that far from the truth;
simultaneously, she's also seeing another therapist, who's
supposed to be coaching her for her undercover role but is
also helping her understand her troubled relationships with
men.
It's
a clever device, and Parker makes the most of it in this
spare, smart, swiftly paced mystery, one of Parker's best in
recent years. --Jane Adams
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