Spook
(Bill Pronzini)
Bill Pronzini?s Nameless Detective series is one of the most popular in
all of detective fiction. Nameless operates out of an office in San
Francisco. Over the years he has solved many fascinating cases. In
recent years, as he?s grown older, he has settled down. He married
Kerry, his longtime girlfriend and together, they adopted a little
girl, thanks to his involvement in a case resulting in the death of her
natural parents.In Spook, Pronzini has Nameless taking another
major step in both his personal and professional life. After having
several close calls in recent years, Nameless has decided to take life
easier. As he shifts into a state of semi-retirement, he?s granting his
partner more control over the development of their detective agency. To
assist her in handling the workload, they hire an associate, Jake
Runyon.Runyon has recently moved to the San Francisco Bay Area
from Seattle. Seeking to cope with the death of a wife he dearly loved
and to reconnect with his only child, an adult son from whom he is
estranged, all Runyon wants during the workday is to lose himself in
his job. The first major case he handles in association with Nameless
and Tamara deals with the death of a homeless man, known on the street
as Spook.As Runyon does most of the legwork involved in trying
to find out who Spook was and why he was killed, Tamara copes with
troubles in her relationship with her boyfriend, a professional
cellist, and Nameless settles more comfortably into his role as husband
and father.However, all three of them find their lives in
jeopardy, the closer they get to the truth behind Spook?s death.
Working together in a last ditch effort to save their lives as they
confront a madman killer, they establish a solid working relationship
with each other which is bound to lead to their continuing to work
together in future entries in the Nameless series.Pronzini has
succeeded in adding a new main character to the Nameless series without
adversely affecting its popularity or prospects for longevity. Bravo,
Pronzini!
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