Melancholy Baby

Its place in Sunny Randall

Melancholy Baby is book 4 in the Sunny Randall series. It follows Shrink Rap. It is followed by Blue Screen. See the full Sunny Randall reading order.

Sunny Randall is a Boston private investigator and former cop, a divorced painter with a soft spot for her ex-husband Richie (whose family runs part of Boston's organized crime) and a bull terrier named Rosie who gets nearly as much page time as the human cast. Robert B. Parker created her, reportedly at actress Helen Hunt's suggestion, as a female counterpart to Spenser — sharp-tongued, independent, working the same hard-boiled Boston streets, with her own therapist, her own found family, and her own tangled…