The brilliant fresh Spenser novel from the beloved NY Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker.

Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his most recent case: to supply protection throughout a ransom exchange-money to get a stolen painting.

The situation becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client as well as the valuable painting remains stolen. Convinced that Ashton Prince performed a bigger function than simply ransom delivery young man, Spenser enters right into a daring video game of cat-and-mouse using the thieves. But this is a game he could not emerge from alive…

Completed the entire year before he passed on, Painted Ladies is normally Spenser and Robert B. Parker at their electrifying best.