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The Professional

A Spenser Novel

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By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
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Summary

 A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower- and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment goes from blackmail to murder.

As matters become more complicated, Spenser's longtime love, Susan, begins offering some input by analyzing Eisenhower's behavior patterns in hopes of opening up a new avenue of investigation. It seems that not all of Gary's women are rich. So if he's not using them for blackmail, then what is his purpose? Spenser switches tactics to focus on the husbands, only to find that innocence and guilt may be two sides of the same coin. Modern Detectives Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Marriage Crime Fiction
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This is a good story but has too much he said, she said after each line.. We know they said it as Joe Mantegna has different voices he uses, it really spoilt the story for me and didn't think it made it suitable for audio, would be better read.

Better to read than listen

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Terrible narration stopped after less than a quarter way through the story maybe ok but I will never know

I said he said after every short sentence

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