Pastime

The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller from New York Times bestselling author Robert B. Parker

In this electrifying masterpiece of crime fiction, a startling game of memory, desire, and danger 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 disappearance. 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 his own soul...Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring police 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, he died in January 2010.