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New to Spenser? Do yourself this favor: Do what I did when I discovered Spenser at the library (at age 12): Go to the library, check out all of the first eleven books. Here they are, in order, from memory: The Godwulf Manuscript God Save the Child Mortal Stakes Promised Land The Judas Goat Looking for Rachel Wallace Early Autumn A Savage Place Ceremony The Widening Gyre Valediction Thank your personal deity for these eleven. And then do NOT read any of the others. They are reflex actions, increasing unimaginative, self-congratulatory and boring. If you persist, you'll learn what I did, the hard way: the magic is gone for good. And the person responsible for it, and apparently utterly oblivious to it, is Robert B. Parker.