Lullaby (Atkins novel)
Lullaby is the 41st novel featuring Robert B. Parker's fictional detective Spenser. It is the first official Spenser novel not written by Parker, but by Ace Atkins. Atkins was asked to write the novel after Parker's death in 2010.
Plot
Mattie Sullivan, a fourteen-year-old girl, recruits Spenser to solve her mother's murder four years earlier. The man convicted of her murder, Mickey Green, was a friend of Mattie's mother and Mattie believes he was framed. When an old mob figure named Jumpin' Jack Flynn appears to be involved, Spenser calls in Hawk and Vinnie Morris for back up.Recurring characters
- Spenser
- Hawk
- Dr. Susan Silverman, Ph.D
- Cpt. Martin Quirk, Boston Police Department
- Sgt. Frank Belson, Boston Police Department
- Vinnie Morris
- Gerry Broz
- Joe Broz