Silent Night Book Review

I can't believe that I read so many books in one day.  I started the day with one book and finished it and started and finished this book too.  It is my summer end blow out to see how much I can get read.  Silent Night (Spenser) by Robert B. Parker was the next book in my pile and it was also due back at the library the next day.  It was hard to put down but I am glad that I finished it and put it in the big bag of library books to be returned before the due date.

It’s a white Christmas in Boston and Spenser and Susan are looking toward all the joys of the holiday. But the mood turns dark when a young boy named Slide contacts Spenser. Street-tough and world-weary, the eleven-year-old convinces Spenser to meet with Jackie Alvarez, who runs a shelter for homeless youth—one under inexplicable threats by  persons unknown. Jackie and Slide need Spenser’s help to stop the intimidation before it escalates into something much worse.
But when the source of the threats is revealed to be even more sinister than first imagined, Spenser must find a way to protect Slide and the other lost boys for whom the shelter is the last chance for a better life.

This book was written by Robert Parker before his death and he was in the middle of it.  After his death, his wife gave the book to his literary agent and she finished it.  It was interesting to get to read another one of his books even after reading two of the other books by the new author.  The characters and flow is exactly the same.  This book was focused on Christmas and of course another case that he takes to protect a house that was trying to help young people stay off the street and give them a better life.  Slide is the boy that comes to Spenser and asks for his help and Spenser is immediately taken with the boy but told him that he wouldn't help unless Jackie, the man who was in charge of the house, came to see him.  Jackie talked to Spenser and they worked out a deal.  Another person came to Spenser also looking for help and he was torn as to who to help because he thought that they might be at cross purposes but he promises to help everyone as long as he can.  This is a great Christmas mystery that ends in a wonderful Christmas for Spenser and his family.  I hope that you check out this book and the others in the series and enjoy them as much as I did.