"Sometimes you have to wonder how Robert B. Parker keeps his mojo working…There is a trick to keeping the faith with an old hero. In an age of shifty heroes with shaky values, he has created a hero who can still stand up for himself-and us." —The New York Times Book Review

The indefatigable, poetry-dishing Spenser finds himself in the middle of yet another whopper of a case. A seemingly-dim blonde with a supermodel-class body is accused of murdering her blue-blooded, Mayflower-descended banker of a husband. Her alibi: she was watching "Survivor" in another room. Mary Fiore, Spenser's seductive lawyer-friend, a former prosecutor, realizes that her client needs some help, and commissions Spenser to dig up the truth. This is easier said than done, but a few gunsels, thugs, and murders later, Spenser makes the connection between the dead banker and a real-estate scam gone sour. There's a resolution to the case, but the fun is in seeing the greed and sexual intrigue play out.