Pastime (Spenser)

Hard-Boiled Mysteries (Kindle Store)

Author: Robert B. Parker

Pastime is a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father’s rage. Now, on the brink of manhood, the boy seeks answers to his mother’s sudden disapearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to.This time, it’s more than a routine search for a missing person–Spenser must search hi….Read More

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