- Private investigators, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Spenser (Fictitious character), Mothers
From Amazon: When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother’s murder, he’s not convinced by her claim that the wrong man was convicted. Mattie is street-smart, wise beyond her years, and now left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Ace Atkins
- First published
- 2012
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780399158032
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