Robert B. Parker, 1932-2010

Jeez, seems like God is calling everyone home today: “Robert Parker, the author of the popular Spenser novels about a hard-nosed Boston private investigator, has died. He was 77.” I absolutely devoured the Spenser books as a kid. It may have been the first grown-up mystery series I really got into. The show was what it was-and it was generally pretty faithful-but man, were those books ever great. Sad news.