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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780739318713 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 0739318713 Label: Random House Audio Manufacturer: Random House Audio Number Of Items: 5 Publication Date: June 05, 2007 Publisher: Random House Audio Release Date: June 05, 2007 Studio: Random House Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Hi, Phil, You miss me? I got bored, so I thought I’d reestablish our relationship. Give us both something to do in our later years. Stay tuned. Spare Change When a serial murderer dubbed “The Spare Change Killer” by the Boston press surfaces after three decades in hiding, the police immediately seek out the cop, now retired, who headed the original task force: Phil Randall. As a sharp-eyed investigator and a doting parent, Phil calls on his daughter Sunny to help trap the criminal who eluded him so many years before. When the killer strikes a second time, and a third, the murders take a macabre turn, as, eerily, the victims each resemble Sunny. While her father pressures her to drop the case, her need to create a trap to catch her killer grows. In a compelling game of cat-and-mouse, Sunny Randall uses all her skills to draw out her prey, realizing too late that she’s setting herself up to become the next victim. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Spare ChangeThis is a good mystery, and the copy I received was new. It arrived in a timely manner. Sunny Randall is an outstanding character. Rating: - A serial killerPI Sunny Randall's father has been called back as a consultant to the Boston police department. A cold case that wss never solved has now become a hot case when a serial killer reappears after a 20 year absence. He brings Sunny into the case as an assistant. This is an interesting, fairly quick read that will hold your attention. It has some side issues about relationships and about Sunny's family. It brings up an issue that has been discussed on an Internet Forum about the ability ... Read More Rating: - Another Satisfying Read from Robert ParkerSpare Change by Robert Parker teams up Sunny Randall and her father in a case involving a serial killer who drops coins next to the bodies of his victims. Although Parker's dialogue is always razor sharp and his characters well delineated, there's a certain perfunctory quality about the plot that perhaps comes from writing too many crime dramas over the years. You won't be disappointed by this book, but you won't necessarily remember it as one of Parker's best, either. A good airport read. You'll enjoy ... Read More Rating:  - Poor effortThe plot was extremely linear. There was only one suspect and he was discovered early on. The final reveal of motives was like a 5 minute voice over. Mr Parker came recommended but I guess he's just old and tired now. Rating: - What's happened to Parker's writing ability?He used to be able to write - good plots, tight dialog, believable characterizations, good reads. In this and others of his recent books - inane dialog, stupid plots, cardboard cutout characters, really boring, predictable reads. Lucky thing I borrowed this - if I had paid for it I'd really have been annoyed. It's a waste of time. 
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