- Hardcover: 322 pages
- Publisher: G P Putnam's Sons; First Printing edition (31 Dec 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0399145664
- ISBN-13: 978-0399145667
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,047,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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There is trouble in a rich Boston suburb - the 15-year-old daughter of banker Brock Patten and his icily perfect wife Betty has left home, and Sunny Randall is brought in to try and trace her. Sunny's search takes her deep into Boston's underworld.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed the book - Robert B Parker is, after all, a brilliant writer - so it's very witty, fast moving, good plot - everything you've come to expect from a Parker novel. But all the time I just felt I was reading a Spenser novel - OK, Sunny Randall is female but she has the "odd ball" friends (for Hawk, read Spike), all the mob are still there (yes, you've guessed - Tony Marcos!) and the screwed-up 'adopted' kid (for Paul, read Millie). Even Pearl, oops sorry, Rosie, is there. Bit disappointing but hey, if it means more Parker, I can live with it!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Yes, there's similarity to Parker's "Early Autumn" in that the detective sort of adopts a teenager who's aimlessly floating around, and yes, bits of the dialogue are identical to Spenser dialogue, but that's not really sufficient to take away from the enjoyment of this book.
Sunny isn't really a female Spenser. She's less comfortable dealing with the gangster connections than Spenser is. While she's a good shot, she doesn't seem to be a true physical match for the bad guys.
Sunny isn't really a female Spenser. She's less comfortable dealing with the gangster connections than Spenser is. While she's a good shot, she doesn't seem to be a true physical match for the bad guys.
In this first outing, she's hired to find a missing 15 year old daughter, but on finding her also discovers that she'll be in considerable danger if she's returned to her family. The story goes on from there. We meet Tony Marcus who we know from Spenser books. And a flip remark is made at one point which indicates that Sunny knows of Spenser and his reputation.
Parker likes to throw in little teasers. When we realize that the girl and her mother will each likely be visiting psychologists, we can't help wondering if one of them won't end up with that lady counsellor we know so well. After all, this is set in Boston.
There's bound to be a bit of a tie-in with other Parker series and therefore, I recommend reading all Parker stories in sequence.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a great crime fiction yarn . . . it's got all of the intensity of thrillers like The Triumph & Glory and winning characters like you'd find in a John McDonald book . . . great plots twists . . . a unique approach with the gender thing . . . Family Honor was a change of pace from the usual genre titles we see
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Very much a Spenser story (but very much without Spenser)
Sunny Randall, the Boston Private Investigator of Robert B. Parker's 1999 novel "Family Honor," is a former cop, college graduate, aspiring painter, divorcee, who owns a miniature... Read more
Published on 8 July 2005 by Lawrance M. Bernabo
Can Spenser Fly As A Woman?
Robert Parker has done something that no mystery writer has ever done before, to my knowledge: He has turned his hero into a heroine. Sunny is clearly Spenser and vice versa. Read more
Published on 29 May 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Impressive, if lightweight
With “Family Honor” Parker introduces a new character, Sunny Randall. She has all the right attributes one might expect of a Parker heroine – she can shoot (used... Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2003 by Dr. Richard Dudley
Parker scores with his first female sleuth as a star
Everyone seems to possess a different handle of what makes Sunny Randle tick. To herself, Sunny simply ends up being a big question mark. Read more
Published on 4 July 1999
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