Robert B. Parker's Lullaby
By: Ace Atkins
Edition: Berkley premium ed.
Series: Spenser
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780425260982
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Private investigators; Fiction; Spenser (Fictitious character); Crimes against; Mothers
Other titles: Lullaby
Description: Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise teen-age girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for. When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie is gruff, street-smart, and wise beyond her years, left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston. But her need for closure and her determination to make things right hit Spenser where he lives, they are the very characteristics he abides by.
Notes: "Berkley premium edition/April 2013"--Title page verso.