Debuted last year as side characters in Gaylin's first Sunny Randall, the powerful Welch family—Bill, Lydia, and their son Dylan—are at the center of her second . Bill and Lydia hire Sunny when Dylan goes missing. Robert Parker's series became more one-off adventures, less related as he aged. I'm glad to see Gaylin revisit the Welches while potential is high and interest is hot. Want to chat further? Join Fans of Robert B. Parker , my public Matrix room.
According to the Penguin Random House website, Mike Lupica's second Spenser sees our hero investigate when high-powered attorney Rita Fiore is shot. The synopsis makes Rita sound more important to Spenser than she is. Debuting in the novels a few years before TV's Spenser: For Hire , Rita was written into the show's second season as a love interest played by Carolyn McCormick after Susan Silverman actor Barbara Stock was let go. The change backfired. Stock was rehired for the following final season, McCormick and Rita forgotten. Canonically Spenser admires Rita but has only ever rebuffed her advances. While her taking a bullet might've made a better fiftieth anniversary mark than last year's Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust , it would hit harder as the hook of a Jesse Stone novel, she and Jesse former sex partners. Want to chat further? Join my public Matrix room Fans of Robert B. Parker .