Thin Air

A Spenser Novel

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: David Dukes

Her name is Lisa St. Clair, and she just married Spenser's long-time pal, a Boston Homicide cop. Now her whereabouts are unknown, and Spenser's friend needs his help to find her. The Boston P.I. thought this case would be easy until he learns the nasty truth about his buddy's new bride.

©2005 Robert B. Parker (P)2005 Phoenix Books, Inc.

David Dukes nailed it.

A great book by RBP and Dukes’ best Spenser narration yet. Susan was typical Susan lovely yet too talkative but hardly to the point of being annoying which she can have a tendency to be in other books. Was great to see Cholo again and experience the characters of Belsen and Quirk continuing to be fleshed out.
My first book in this series was Hugger Mugger over a decade ago. I had just checked everything the library had to offer in the series. Not long after I got Audible and started the series from book 1. Pacing myself as to enjoy Robert B Parker’s Spenser for as long as possible.
This book was referenced in several more recent books I had read previously which was part of the inspiration to read them all in order.
Great book, highly recommended.

great stuff

very good not long enough. First we have heard by David dukes. Different voice makes it not the same,,,,,,,,

Vintage

This book is one of the top three Vintage Robert B Parker I loved every minute.

Bad reader

Very flawed reader. Good voice for Spenser, couple of the others, but some really bad choices for others: Luis, Latino, sounding like he had a Russian or Eastern European accent; Boston cops with New York accents; Susan sounds ridiculous, very flighty which she isn’t; Samuelson in LA sounding like he’s from Wyoming. Also pronounced some names and words incorrectly, e.g. Haverill Mass. Is pronounced Hayve-erill, not Hayver-hill.

The narrator need me to dial it back a little.

Like all Spenser novels, the story is great. Robert B Parker does such a great job of pulling you into Spenser’s world. But David Dukes seems to be trying too hard to be dramatic. His emphasis on the first syllable of almost every word sounds like Rod Serling doing a car commercial and many of his character voicing sound cartoonish.