{"id":9665,"date":"2018-02-02T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=9665"},"modified":"2021-06-05T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:22:20","slug":"hugger-mugger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9665","title":{"rendered":"Hugger Mugger, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugger Mugger<\/a><\/em> (2000) Robert B Parker<\/a> narrated by Joe Mantegna<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Walter Clive has hired Spenser to come down to Georgia to see who has been shooting his horses. What Spenser finds makes no sense: there is no rhyme or reason to the shootings, and the in-house security has seen nothing. Two of the three daughters are a mess, and the two husbands are pieces of work in their own rights.<\/p>\n

Then there is a murder Spenser is removed from the case.<\/p>\n

There is almost a short story in here, of the case Spenser takes between working in Georgia, and I quite like the resolution, in that Spenser does what he feels is right rather than what he was necessarily hired to do.<\/p>\n

Another thing I like about this story is that there isn’t a clean ending–the murderer gets away with it, essentially. That doesn’t happen very often in the Spenser books, but I do like that although everyone knows what has happened, there is no proof, and so no legal case can be made.<\/p>\n

No ebook available, and since I listened to it, no quotes for this one.<\/p>\n

Joe Mantegna is the narrator from here forward as best as I can tell. I don’t hate him, but I can’t say I love his narration either. I think Burt Reynolds did a better job, even though the digital copies of those books are terrible. So now I have to decide if I want to keep listening or go ahead and switch to reading the rest of the series.<\/p>\n

We’ll have to see.
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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