About this title: Commissioned by actress Helen Hunt, who will star in the film version, FAMILY HONOR finds petite, blond private detective Sunny Randall going head-to-head with the mob, corrupt politicians, and the uppety parents of a teenage prostitute who she befriends and protects. The creator of the classic Spenser crime series delves into treacherous territory in his first book featuring a female protagonist. A 1999 Publishers Weekly Best Book.
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Description: New York: Putnam 1999 Book Club Edition 322 pages, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4, hardcover in dust jacket CONDITION: VERY GOOD, an excellent copy, fine condition in nearly fine dj (tiny rub at upper spine corner. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780425177068ISBN:0425177068
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Spine creasing and cover wear. A solid reading copy. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fine. 0425177068 This mass market paperback book is in GREAT SHAPE! ! ! You have to look hard to see the very slight creasing of the spine! Minor signs of wear from reading--nothing major. Crisp, clean pages. Close to looking like it could be on the shelf of a new bookstore! ! SMOKE FREE HOME! Do not settle for worn, torn, throwaways. Pay a few pennies more for a beautiful copy! ! ! read more
Description: Very Good. 0425177068 Great condition paperback book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, some edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780425177068ISBN:0425177068
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780425177068ISBN:0425177068
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780425177068ISBN:0425177068
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780425177068ISBN:0425177068
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780425177068ISBN:0425177068
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION-CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK read once. SHIPS QUICKLY. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 320 p. Sunny Randall Novels. Audience: General/trade. VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION-CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK read once. SHIPS QUICKLY. Parker, Robert B-PAPERBACK, Berkley Publishing Group, 2000. Fiction; Massachusetts; Mystery & Detective; New England; Northeast U.S.; Urban; Women Sleuths read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780425177068ISBN:0425177068
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Library stamps and stickers. Light shelf wear. Solid copy with clean pages. read more
"Sunny Randall is the new Boston P.I. supposedly written specifically for Helen Hunt. Hard-boiled? I'm reserving judgment right now but it seemed a lot like Kinsey Spenser to me?"
"Excellent; Continuing character: Sunny Randall (first in series); a runaway girl is found by the PI, but this just begins a series of events as she finds out that what the girl ran away from was the possibility of being murdered."
"If someone hadn't given me a whole armload of Robert Parker books (in hardcover!), I never would've picked one up. This one has a really sinister family, but Sunny and her friends and of course her dog are really likeable characters."
"I've been reading Parker's Spenser series for about four months now and have more or less enjoyed every one of them.
I found this book at a used book store and thought I'd give it a try to see how Parker would do with a female P.I. in the same Boston environment that I've enjoyed reading about with Spenser.
Not long into the book it occured to me that Sunny Randall is Spenser with ovaries. Sure she's not a physically imposing as Spenser but the attitude and sharp tongue are there.
Roughly two weeks ago I had finished Parker's novel Early Autumn which dealt with Spenser taking care of a teenage boy who was lost in the shuffle between his warring parents. Family Honor felt like a recycling of that story with changes in a few of the details and a lot more feminine pronouns.
This is not to say that Family Honor was a bad book, I enjoyed it thoroughly but my opinion of it was more than a little effected by the reading of a very similar (and honestly superior) book not long beforehand."
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