3.5
Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me
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In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser and his young protégé Mattie Sullivan take on billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients.
Ten years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie Sullivan find her mother's killer and take down an infamous Southie crime boss. Now Mattie--a college student with a side job working for the tough but tender private eye--dreams of being an investigator herself. Her first big case involves a fifteen-year-old girl assaulted by a much older man at one of Boston's most prestigious private clubs. The girl, Chloe Turner, only wants the safe return of her laptop and backpack. But like her mentor and boss, Mattie has a knack for asking the right questions of the wrong people.
Soon Spenser and Mattie find ties between the exploitation of dozens of other girls from working class families to an eccentric billionaire and his sadistic henchwoman with a mansion on Commonwealth Avenue. The mystery man's wealth, power and connections extend well beyond Massachusetts - maybe even beyond the United States. Spenser and trusted ally Hawk must again watch out for Mattie as she unravels a massive sex-trafficking ring that will take them from Boston to Boca Raton to the Bahamas, crossing paths with local toughs, a highly-trained security company, and an old enemy of Spenser's--the Gray Man--for a final epic showdown.
Ten years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie Sullivan find her mother's killer and take down an infamous Southie crime boss. Now Mattie--a college student with a side job working for the tough but tender private eye--dreams of being an investigator herself. Her first big case involves a fifteen-year-old girl assaulted by a much older man at one of Boston's most prestigious private clubs. The girl, Chloe Turner, only wants the safe return of her laptop and backpack. But like her mentor and boss, Mattie has a knack for asking the right questions of the wrong people.
Soon Spenser and Mattie find ties between the exploitation of dozens of other girls from working class families to an eccentric billionaire and his sadistic henchwoman with a mansion on Commonwealth Avenue. The mystery man's wealth, power and connections extend well beyond Massachusetts - maybe even beyond the United States. Spenser and trusted ally Hawk must again watch out for Mattie as she unravels a massive sex-trafficking ring that will take them from Boston to Boca Raton to the Bahamas, crossing paths with local toughs, a highly-trained security company, and an old enemy of Spenser's--the Gray Man--for a final epic showdown.
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“I think it’s hilarious that the main villain is definitely based off of Jeffrey Epstein but the author just changed his names to Steiner.
A fun enough entry in the series. Didn’t love the use of the Gray Man. Good use of Hawk and Maddie.”
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“Despite this being the 48th in the Spenser series, Ace Atkins continues to keep Robert B. Parker’s iconic Boston PI fresh. This time, Spenser, Hawk and Spenser’s 22-year-old protégé Mattie Sullivan are out to bring to justice a pair of super-rich slime buckets who are preying on underage girls.
Atkins has certainly mastered Spenser’s one-liners. Some favorites here include, among others: “Mattie rolled her eyes. I could power the lights at Fenway with the eye-rolling from Mattie Sullivan.” And “we’re talking about a man who had more skeletons in his closet than the Haunted House at Disney.” And “She seemed to be in excellent shape with abdominal muscles that could grate a block of Parmigiano Reggiano.”
In addition to fan-favorite Hawk, the book also includes the return of the man who, years before, shot Spenser, leaving him for dead—Rugar, the Gray Man. He’s a formidable foe whose motives are murky.
The “ripped from the headlines” plot (mirroring the real-life Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell case) concludes with a nice twist signaling that, in fiction at least, the untouchable elite are in fact touchable.”
About Ace Atkins
Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole-Everett Hitch Westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, he died in January 2010. Ace Atkins is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven books, including ten books in his Quinn Colson series. Handpicked by the Robert B. Parker Estate nearly a decade ago to continue the Spenser series, he's written nine novels about the iconic private eye. He lives and works in Oxford, Mississippi.
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