{"id":3392,"date":"2006-10-28T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:30:52","slug":"book-report-hundred-dollar-baby-by-robert-b-parker-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/28\/book-report-hundred-dollar-baby-by-robert-b-parker-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Hundred Dollar Baby by Robert B. Parker (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the new Spenser novel, released this week.  I read it.  Atypically for me, I read it over the course of two nights.  Normally, it only takes one, but I completed <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/28\/book-report-the-night-crew-by-john-sandford-1997\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>The Night Crew<\/i><\/a>, so I didn&#8217;t get a good run at it.<\/p>\n<p>This book is another one featuring April Kyle, also of <i>Ceremony<\/i> and <i>Taming a Seahorse<\/i>.  Like the Paul Giacomin cycle, these are trilogies of sorts.  This time, April Kyle is back in Boston and is running a franchise brothel for Patricia Utley.  When some men come along and want to take the business away from her, she turns to Spenser.<\/p>\n<p>He has to investigate to find out who the men are and why they&#8217;re after April&#8217;s business.  He finds that everyone&#8217;s lying to him, including April, and has to hang in there to find out the real story.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty good book, I guess, but after 20 years, it&#8217;s very familiar; the Sandford book was different in that I didn&#8217;t know what to expect.  With this one, I knew pretty much how it would go and realized the storyline pretty early.  Still, I shall always be loyal and serve Robert B. Parker as my master.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=musinfrombria-\n\n20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0399153764&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" \n\nstyle=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the new Spenser novel, released this week. I read it. Atypically for me, I read it over the course of two nights. Normally, it only takes one, but I completed The Night Crew, so I didn&#8217;t get a good run at it. This book is another one featuring April Kyle, also of Ceremony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18489,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions\/18489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}