- Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Boxing stories
Another teen thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser mysteries. When a shy high school student's body is found washed up on the shore of a quiet New England beach town—an apparent suicide—fifteen-year-old Terry Novak doesn't know what to think.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Penguin, Philomel, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101075067
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