A Savage Place [Paperback]

TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.

Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser's skill with his fists, and Candy is about to use her own sweet body as live bait in a deadly romantic game--a game that may cost Spenser his life."The best new private eye in fiction since  Raymond Chandler." -- Dan  Wakefield

"As tough as they come and spiked with a  touch of real class." --Kirkus  Reviews

"Tough,  wisecracking, unafraid, lonely, unexpectedly literate--an  many respects the very examplar of the species."  --The New York Times  

"Spenser gives the tribe of hard-boiled  wonders a new vitality and complexity."  --Chicago Sun-TimesRobert B. Parkerwas the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, novels featuring Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, Parker died in January 2010.Chapter 1
 
I was sitting in my office above the bank with my tie loose and my feet up, reading a book called Play of Double Senses: Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Susan Silverman had given it to me, claiming it was my biography. But it wasn’t. It turned out to be about the sixteenth-century English poet who spelled his name like mine. The guy that wrote it had become the president of Yale, and I thought maybe ló€