#9 Crimson Joy by Robert B. Parker ***

I've been rather distracted from my reading attempts lately. I'm putting aside The Da Vinci Code and going to read the quick Parker read. Spenser is always good to me. Hope then to pick back up The Da Vinci Code.

From Amazon: A husband murders his wife imitating the "Red Rose Killer," a serial murderer who has been leaving a rose on the corpses of his victims, middle-aged black women. When the spouse admits his guilt, government higher-ups assure feminist and ethnic pressure groups that the elusive maniac has been caught: case closed. But Spenser's friends in homicide, angered by the cover-up, enlist him and Hawk in an unofficial investigation that seems to implicate some of Susan's patients. Resenting the intrusion on her professional territory, Susan nevertheless cooperates. Spenser and Hawk, as guards, are therefore present during the psychologist's session with the dreaded but pitiable killer and the ensuing tense, final scene.

03/09/06
Fun Spenser read, as always.