Search - School Days (Spenser, Bk 33)

This is "classic" Parker, another chapter in the Spenser saga. Here Spencer is on his own. Susan is away at a professional conference. A lot of his conversation (thinking aloud) is confined to Pearl, the dog. The mystery is about a high school boy accused of mass murder at his school. Spencer tries to find out if and why the boy committed the crime.
This book just proves that Parker does not need to depend on his full menu of characters to provide an engrossing story. Spencer alone is still funny, entertaining and a good read!

There must be a secret to Parker´s success of mass publishing books. However, I was not able to find it.
First of all this was my first book by Robert B. Parker and certainly it was the last one. I just can´t be friend with dull writing and sentences that rarely contain more than 10 words.

Here´s a short excerpt:
"It had been a wet summer. Outside my office window, it was raining again. I was watching it. Pearl was resting om her couch. Later, wgen the excitement died down, I might read the paper. My phone rang. Pearl had no reaction. She didn´t care about phones. I didn´t either, but somebody had to abswer, so I picked it up."

I rarely write bad reviews but this book deserved one.

Spenser is always wonderful. No Hawk and very little of Susan. Spenser's main companion in this investigation is Pearl the Wonder Dog. Two students shoot up their school, are captured, and confess, so why is Spenser so interested in WHY?

True to the Spenser series, a little to predictable and clique for me.

Very good book.

School Days wasn't a bad book but I won't be recommending it to anyone. It was slow going and a little boring. I finished it for no other reason than I paid $7.99 for it and didn't want to waste my money by not finishing the book. This is my first Robert B. Parker book and I'm not anxious to try another but probly will just to be fair. If the next isn't any better than I won't bother with any others. The sarcastic Spenser character wasn't enough to keep me entertained and the story going like with the Stephanie Plum (Janet Evanovich) and Andy Carpenter (David Rosenfelt) books that I really enjoy.