The reviewer's first job is to say if a book is any good and should be read or not. Not so easy in the case of Lullaby, the first Spenser novel written by Ace Atkins after the death in 2010 of Bob Parker. The book is a more than passable entry in the private investigator genre. But the bar on this one is set impossibly high by Putnam's, by the Parker family, and most of all by the expectations of the legions of Spenser fans.
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