Carrie asked,
> So - can you come up with any books where the author
takes the detective
out
> of his/her "natural habitat" and really succeeds at
it? I think Lehane
> does a pretty good job with the Florida scenes in
"Sacred," though overall
> it's probably his weakest book. Others?
Carrie, I have read that Parker's third Spenser book, THE
JUDAS GOAT, was the one that really made the series. In it
Spenser and Hawk go to Great Britain, Denmark, Holland, and
Canada in find nine bombers who killed the client's
family.and either bring them to justice or kill them. I think
it differerentiated Spenser along with Hawk from the routine
detectives in series. It established the formula of the
detective who had a ruthless associate who would be there
when most needed. that inspired Crais, Lehane, Coben and
others. Mark
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