This Spenser novel begins like almost all of the rest. A beautiful woman walks into Spenser’s office and wants to hire him and sleep with him if she gets the chance. It seems a professional horndog has been sleeping with rich married women and now he has started blackmailing them. The angry women have banded together to find him and warn him off. Spenser does that and then there are complications. The mystery rolls along and all of the Spenser cliches are checked off of the list. The story goes through the motions and once the word count is hit, the mystery is solved. I read a friend’s copy so I can sleep well knowing that I did not personally encourage a once- decent writer to hack out padded novellas for quick cash. I think I’m done with these.
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