TheBestseller
Observatory
2007
SPARE CHANGE
Robert B. Parker
Cover of SPARE CHANGE

SPARE CHANGE

by Robert B. Parker

Putnam · 2007

Peak rank

#16

Weeks on list

1

Debuted

June 2007

Chart History

#1510152007

1 week on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #16

Boston P.I. Sunny Randall joins forces with the most important man in her life—her father—to crack a thirty-year-old case. When a serial murderer dubbed “The Spare Change Killer” by the Boston press surfaces after three decades in hiding, the police immediately seek out the cop, now retired, who headed the original task force: Phil Randall. As a sharp-eyed investigator and a doting parent (“You’re smart. You’re tough . . . You, too, are a paradigm of law enforcement- perfection, and you’re my kid”), Phil calls on his daughter Sunny to help trap the criminal who eluded him so many years before. After interviewing just a handful of suspects, Sunny is certain that she’s found her man. Though she has no evidence against Bob Johnson, she trusts her intuition. And she knows the power she has over him—she can feel the skittishness and sexual tension that he radiates when he’s around her—but convincing her father and the rest of the task force is a different story. When the killer strikes a second time and a third, the murders take a macabre turn, as, eerily, the victims each resemble Sunny. While her father pressures her to drop the case, her need to create a trap to catch her killer grows. In a compelling game of cat-and-mouse, Sunny Randall uses all her skills to draw out her prey, realizing too late that she’s setting herself up to become the next victim.

All Appearances

Details

ISBN-13
9781101207260
ISBN-10
1101207264
Published
2007
Pages
316
Publisher
Putnam
Google rating
1.0(1)
Categories
Fiction

When you purchase a book through our links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review.