Shrink Rap
- Published
- 1 January 2002
- Pages
- 289
- ISBN-13
- 9780399149306
- Type
- novel
About this book
Shrink Rap is Robert B. Parker's third Sunny Randall novel, published in 2002 at 289 pages, following Perish Twice and preceding Melancholy Baby. It continues Boston PI Sunny Randall's cases in Parker's spare, dialogue-forward style, with her complicated relationship to her mob-connected ex-husband Richie's family developing alongside the investigation.
Key facts about Shrink Rap
Robert B. Parker wrote Shrink Rap, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2002. The book has 289 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399149306 to find the main one.
Shrink Rap is book 3 of 13 in the Sunny Randall series. The series has 12 published books. However, the series starts with Family Honor (1999).
Additionally, Robert B. Parker writes Spenser, Jesse Stone and Cole and Hitch as separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and western shelves. Meanwhile, Silent Night is the latest published Robert B. Parker book on file, from 2013.
About Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker was an American crime novelist credited with reviving and modernizing the hardboiled detective genre for the late twentieth century. A former English professor with a doctoral dissertation on Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, he channeled that scholarship into the Spenser series, following a wisecracking, code-bound Boston private investigator across nearly forty novels beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript in 1973. See every Robert B. Parker book in order.
Its place in Sunny Randall
Shrink Rap is book 3 in the Sunny Randall series. It follows Perish Twice. It is followed by Melancholy Baby. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399149306